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2023 Best Value Trade School Schools in Idaho
Identifying High-Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for trade school students. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house.
The Best Value Trade School Schools in Idaho ranking is one of many tools that Trade College Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 8 schools in Idaho 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.
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. 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.
For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.
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Top Value Trade Schools in Idaho
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Our 2023 rankings named Brigham Young University - Idaho the best value school in Idaho for trade school students working on their degree. Brigham Young University - Idaho is a large private not-for-profit school located in Rexburg, Idaho that handed out 8,121 degrees in 2021-2022.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate students at BYU - I are $4,536 a year.
BYU - I also made our Best Trade Schools in Idaho list, coming in at #1.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend College of Eastern Idaho. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Trade School Schools in Idaho list. Located in Idaho Falls, Idaho, the small public school awarded 382 diplomas to qualifed students in 2021-2022.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate students at CEI are $6,750 a year.
In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, CEI is ranked #3 for overall quality in Idaho.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend North Idaho College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Trade School Schools in Idaho list. Located in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, the small public school handed out 1,380 degrees in 2021-2022.
NIC undergraduate students pay an average of $8,736 in tuition and fees each year.
The excellent programs at College of Western Idaho helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best value trade schools in Idaho. CWI is a medium-sized public school situated in Nampa, Idaho. It awarded 2,595 degrees in 2021-2022.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate students at CWI are $7,344 a year.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend College of Southern Idaho. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Best Value Trade School Schools in Idaho list. Located in Twin Falls, Idaho, the medium-sized public school awarded 1,428 diplomas to qualifed students in 2021-2022.
Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at College of Southern Idaho are $6,840 per year.
Lewis - Clark State College landed the #6 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value trade school programs. Located in Lewiston, Idaho, the small public school handed out 848 degrees in 2021-2022.
Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Lewis - Clark State College are $20,252 per year.
Lewis - Clark State College also made our Best Trade Schools in Idaho list, coming in at #4.
Boise State University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best value places for trade school students. It came in at #7 on the list. Boise, Idaho is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out degrees to 6,158 students in 2021-2022.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate students at Boise State are $25,701 a year.
Boise State did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Trade Schools in Idaho list.
Idaho State University came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Trade School Schools in Idaho ranking. Located in Pocatello, Idaho, the fairly large public school handed out 2,795 degrees in 2021-2022.
Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at ISU are $25,936 per year.
ISU not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #5 on our Best Trade Schools in Idaho list.
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Notes and References
Footnotes
*These averages are for the top 8 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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