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2023 Best Value Trade School Basic Certificate Schools in Montana
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. 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.
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Top Value Trade Basic Certificate Schools in Montana
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Our 2023 rankings named The University of Montana the best value school in Montana for trade school students working on their basic certificate. The University of Montana is a medium-sized public school located in Missoula, Montana that handed out 17 basic certificates in 2021-2022.
Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UM are $29,634 per year.
One thing to take note of is that UM does offer online classes in some areas. In 2020-2021 about 41% of the undergraduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.
UM not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #2 on our Best Basic Certificate Trade Schools in Montana list.
A rank of #2 on this year’s list means University of Providence is a great place for trade school students working on their basic certificate who want the most bang for their educational buck. Located in Great Falls, Montana, the very small private not-for-profit school awarded 48 diplomas to qualifed basic certificate 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 primarily an online school, so it is a great choice for returning adults and students who work full time.
University of Providence did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Basic Certificate Trade Schools in Montana list.
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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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