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2023 Best Value Trade School Basic Certificate Schools in Nebraska
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Prices
There are so many trade school programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one 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 Nebraska to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 3 schools in Nebraska 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.
This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.
For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.
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Top Value Trade Basic Certificate Schools in Nebraska
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Our analysis found Central Community College to be the best value school for trade school students who want to pursue a basic certificate in Nebraska. Located in Grand Island, Nebraska, the medium-sized public school handed out 1,309 basic certificate awards in 2021-2022.
Central Community College undergraduate students pay an average of $4,710 in tuition and fees each year.
Online courses are available at Central Community College, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 72% of undergraduates took at least one course online in 2020-2021.
Central Community College not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #1 on our Best Basic Certificate Trade Schools in Nebraska list.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Metropolitan Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Trade School Basic Certificate Schools in Nebraska list. Omaha, Nebraska is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out basic certificates to 257 students in 2021-2022.
Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at MCC are $4,815 per year.
One thing to take note of is that MCC does offer online classes in some areas. Of all the undergraduates enrolled at the school during the 2020-2021 academic year, around 45% took at least some of their classes online.
MCC also took the #2 spot in our Best Basic Certificate Trade Schools in Nebraska rankings.
The excellent basic certificate programs at Southeast Community College Area helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value trade school schools in Nebraska. This medium-sized public school is located in Lincoln, Nebraska, and it awarded 133 basic certificates in 2021-2022.
Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Southeast Community College are $3,864 per year.
Online courses are available at Southeast 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 38% of the undergraduates at the school took at least one online course.
In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Southeast Community College is ranked #3 for overall quality in Nebraska.
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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.
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