2023 Best Value Trade School Basic Certificate Schools in New Hampshire
Identifying High-Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which trade school program is right for you. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses.
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 New Hampshire to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 4 schools in New Hampshire to see which ones offered the best value basic certificate programs for trade school students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.
When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. 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.
Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.
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Top Value Trade Basic Certificate Schools in New Hampshire
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Our analysis found White Mountains Community College to be the best value school for trade school students who want to pursue a basic certificate in New Hampshire. White Mountains Community College is located in Berlin, New Hampshire and has a very small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 65 basic certificates to qualified students.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate students at White Mountains Community College are $15,300 a year.
Online courses are available at White Mountains Community College, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. During the 2020-2021 year, about 55% of the undergraduates at the school took at least one online course.
White Mountains Community College did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Basic Certificate Trade Schools in New Hampshire list.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend River Valley Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Trade School Basic Certificate Schools in New Hampshire list. Located in Claremont, New Hampshire, the very small public school awarded 27 diplomas to qualifed basic certificate students in 2021-2022.
NH Community Technical College - Claremont undergraduate students pay an average of $15,190 in tuition and fees each year.
You may have the opportunity to take online classes at NH Community Technical College - Claremont. In 2020-2021 about 80% of the undergraduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.
NH Community Technical College - Claremont did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Basic Certificate Trade Schools in New Hampshire list.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend NHTI-Concord’s Community College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Trade School Basic Certificate Schools in New Hampshire list. Concord, New Hampshire is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out basic certificates to 117 students in 2021-2022.
NHTI undergraduate students pay an average of $15,450 in tuition and fees each year.
NHTI does offer online classes for certain degree levels. Of all the undergraduates enrolled at the school during the 2020-2021 academic year, around 54% took at least some of their classes online.
In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, NHTI is ranked #3 for overall quality in New Hampshire.
Out of the 4 schools in New Hampshire that were part of this year’s value ranking, Great Bay Community College landed the # 4 spot on the list. Great Bay Community College is a small public school located in Portsmouth, New Hampshire that handed out 61 basic certificates in 2021-2022.
Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Great Bay Community College are $15,450 per year.
If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since Great Bay Community College does offer online classes for certain majors. During the 2020-2021 year, about 86% of the undergraduates at the school took at least one online course.
Great Bay Community College not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #4 on our Best Basic Certificate Trade Schools in New Hampshire list.
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Notes and References
Footnotes
*These averages are for the top 4 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.
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