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2023 Best Value Trade School Basic Certificate Schools in Alaska
Identifying High-Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for trade school students. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house.
Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Trade College Search has created the Best Value Trade School Basic Certificate Schools in Alaska to help you in your search for the best school for you.
This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.
For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.
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Top Value Trade Basic Certificate Schools in Alaska
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Our analysis found University of Alaska Anchorage to be the best value school for trade school students who want to pursue a basic certificate in Alaska. UAA is a fairly large public school situated in Anchorage, Alaska. It awarded 159 basic certificates in 2021-2022.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate students at UAA are $21,635 a year.
You may have the opportunity to take online classes at UAA. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 87% of undergraduates took at least one course online in 2020-2021.
UAA not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #1 on our Best Basic Certificate Trade Schools in Alaska list.
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Notes and References
Footnotes
*These averages are for the top 1 schools only.
References
- The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
- Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
More about our data sources and methodologies.