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Best Value Trade School Schools in Delaware

2023 Best Value Trade School Schools in Delaware

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Prices

2 Schools Ranked
$24,869 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$26,759 Avg Student Debt*

Today's trade school students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Trade College Search has developed this Best Value Trade School Schools in Delaware ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Delaware to see which programs offered the best value experiences for trade school students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. 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.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

Top Value Trade Schools in Delaware

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

1,999 Total Awards
$11,808 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found Delaware Technical Community College - Terry to be the best value school for trade school students in Delaware. Located in Dover, Delaware, the fairly large public school awarded 1,999 diplomas to qualifed students in 2021-2022.

Delaware Tech undergraduate students pay an average of $11,808 in tuition and fees each year.

Delaware Tech did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Trade Schools in Delaware list.

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#2

University of Delaware

Newark, Delaware
6,477 Total Awards
$37,930 Average Tuition & Fees

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means University of Delaware is a great place for trade school students who want to get the most value for their educational dollar. Located in Newark, Delaware, the large public school handed out 6,477 degrees in 2021-2022.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate students at UD are $37,930 a year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, UD is ranked #2 for overall quality in Delaware.

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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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