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2023 Best Value Trade School Basic Certificate Schools in Vermont
Identifying High-Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
With all the trade school programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience.
The Best Value Trade School Basic Certificate Schools in Vermont ranking is one of many tools that Trade College Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Vermont to see which basic certificate programs offered the best value experiences for trade school students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.
Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.
In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used 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 Vermont
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Our 2023 rankings named Community College of Vermont the best value school in Vermont for trade school students working on their basic certificate. Located in Montpelier, Vermont, the medium-sized public school handed out 75 basic certificate awards in 2021-2022.
CCV undergraduate students pay an average of $13,640 in tuition and fees each year.
One thing to take note of is that CCV does offer online classes in some areas. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 81% of undergraduates took at least one course online in 2020-2021.
CCV did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Basic Certificate Trade Schools in Vermont list.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Vermont Technical College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Trade School Basic Certificate Schools in Vermont list. This small public school is located in Randolph, Vermont, and it awarded 3 basic certificates in 2021-2022.
Vermont Tech undergraduate students pay an average of $29,502 in tuition and fees each year.
Online courses are available at Vermont Tech, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. In 2020-2021 about 41% of the undergraduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.
Vermont Tech also took the #3 spot in our Best Basic Certificate Trade Schools in Vermont rankings.
A rank of #3 on this year’s list means Champlain College is a great place for trade school students working on their basic certificate who want the most bang for their educational buck. This small private not-for-profit school is located in Burlington, Vermont, and it awarded 246 basic certificates in 2021-2022.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate students at Champlain are $44,220 a year.
Champlain does offer online classes for certain degree levels. In fact, around 45% of the undergraduate population registered for at least one online class in 2020-2021.
In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Champlain is ranked #1 for overall quality in Vermont.
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Notes and References
Footnotes
*These averages are for the top 3 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.