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2023 Best Value Trade School Basic Certificate Schools in West Virginia

Identifying High-Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 Schools Ranked
$12,056 Avg Tuition & Fees*

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.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Trade College Search has created its Best Value Trade School Basic Certificate Schools in West Virginia ranking.

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 West Virginia

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#1

Pierpont Community and Technical College

Fairmont, West Virginia
272 Total Awards
$12,056 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Pierpont Community and Technical College the best value school in West Virginia for trade school students working on their basic certificate. Fairmont, West Virginia is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out basic certificates to 272 students in 2021-2022.

Pierpont Community and Technical College undergraduate students pay an average of $12,056 in tuition and fees each year.

You may have the opportunity to take online classes at Pierpont Community and Technical College. In fact, around 75% 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, Pierpont Community and Technical College is ranked #1 for overall quality in West Virginia.

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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.

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