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 2023 rankings named Central Community College the best value school in Nebraska for trade school students working on their basic certificate. Grand Island, Nebraska is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out basic certificates to 1,309 students in 2021-2022.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate students at Central Community College are $4,710 a year.
You may have the opportunity to take online classes at Central Community College. In 2020-2021 about 72% of the undergraduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.
Central Community College also made our Best Basic Certificate Trade Schools in Nebraska list, coming in at #1.
The excellent basic certificate programs at Metropolitan Community College helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value trade school schools in Nebraska. MCC is located in Omaha, Nebraska and has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 257 basic certificates to qualified students.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate students at MCC are $4,815 a year.
MCC does have options available for those who want to take online classes. You will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your specific major. 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 did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Basic Certificate Trade Schools in Nebraska list.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southeast Community College Area. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Trade School Basic Certificate Schools in Nebraska list. Southeast Community College is located in Lincoln, Nebraska and has a medium-sized student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 133 basic certificates to qualified students.
Southeast Community College undergraduate students pay an average of $3,864 in tuition and fees each year.
One thing to take note of is that Southeast Community College does offer online classes in some areas. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 38% of undergraduates took at least one course online in 2020-2021.
Southeast Community College also took the #3 spot in our Best Basic Certificate Trade Schools in Nebraska rankings.
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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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