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2023 Best Value Trade School Basic Certificate Schools in Montana

Identifying High-Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Schools Ranked
$28,620 Avg Tuition & Fees*

With all the trade school programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country.

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 Montana to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 2 schools in Montana 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.

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.

Top Value Trade Basic Certificate Schools in Montana

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

#1

The University of Montana

Missoula, Montana
17 Total Awards
$29,634 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found The University of Montana to be the best value school for trade school students who want to pursue a basic certificate in Montana. Missoula, Montana is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out basic certificates to 17 students in 2021-2022.

UM undergraduate students pay an average of $29,634 in tuition and fees each year.

You may have the opportunity to take online classes at UM. Of all the undergraduates enrolled at the school during the 2020-2021 academic year, around 41% 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, UM is ranked #2 for overall quality in Montana.

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#2

University of Providence

Great Falls, Montana
48 Total Awards
$27,606 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent basic certificate programs at University of Providence helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value trade school schools in Montana. Great Falls, Montana is the setting for this very small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out basic certificates to 48 students in 2021-2022.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate students at University of Providence are $27,606 a year.

University of Providence is one of the schools on our list that is primarily online. Each undergraduate student at the school took at least one class online.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, University of Providence is ranked #1 for overall quality in Montana.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*These averages are for the top 2 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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