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2023 Best Value Trade School Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Nevada
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 Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Nevada to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 4 schools in Nevada to see which ones offered the best value undergraduate 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 Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Nevada
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Our analysis found Truckee Meadows Community College to be the best value school for trade school students who want to pursue a undergraduate certificate in Nevada. Truckee Meadows Community College is a medium-sized public school situated in Reno, Nevada. It awarded 249 undergraduate certificates in 2021-2022.
Truckee Meadows Community College undergraduate students pay an average of $10,639 in tuition and fees each year.
You may have the opportunity to take online classes at Truckee Meadows Community College. During the 2020-2021 year, about 61% 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, Truckee Meadows Community College is ranked #3 for overall quality in Nevada.
Out of the 4 schools in Nevada that were part of this year’s value ranking, Great Basin College landed the # 2 spot on the list. Great Basin College is located in Elko, Nevada and has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 194 undergraduate certificates to qualified students.
Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Great Basin College are $11,147 per year.
Great Basin College does offer online classes for certain degree levels. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 98% of undergraduates took at least one course online in 2020-2021.
Great Basin College did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Undergraduate Certificate Trade Schools in Nevada list.
The excellent undergraduate certificate programs at College of Southern Nevada helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value trade school schools in Nevada. College of Southern Nevada is a large public school located in Las Vegas, Nevada that handed out 145 undergraduate certificates in 2021-2022.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate students at CSN are $11,869 a year.
Depending on your major, you may be able to take online classes at CSN. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 63% of undergraduates took at least one course online in 2020-2021.
CSN also took the #4 spot in our Best Undergraduate Certificate Trade Schools in Nevada rankings.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Career College of Northern Nevada. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Trade School Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Nevada list. Located in Sparks, Nevada, the very small private for-profit school handed out 111 undergraduate certificate awards in 2021-2022.
Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Career College of Northern Nevada are $0 per year. By the time they get their undergraduate certificate, students from this school have racked up an average of $9,090 in student loans.
Career College of Northern Nevada did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Undergraduate Certificate Trade Schools in Nevada list.
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Notes and References
Footnotes
*These averages are for the top 4 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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