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2023 Most Popular Online Basic Certificate Trade Schools in Alabama
There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which trade school program is right for you. 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.
To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Trade College Search has created its Most Popular Online Basic Certificate Trade Schools in Alabama ranking. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Alabama to see which online basic certificate programs were the most popular for trade school students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from schools with online programs.
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Most Popular Online Trade School Basic Certificate Schools in Alabama
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Our analysis found Columbia Southern University to be the most popular school for trade school students who want to pursue a basic certificate in Alabama. Located in Orange Beach, Alabama, the fairly large private for-profit school awarded 134 diplomas to qualifed basic certificate students in 2021-2022.
If you don’t receive financial aid, you can expect a bill for $6,015 to cover tuition and fees at Columbia Southern University. The school does not offer an in-state discount. Around 26% of those degree recipients were women.
Columbia Southern University is one of the schools on our list that is primarily online. Each undergraduate student at the school took at least one class online.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Shelton State Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Popular Online Basic Certificate Trade Schools in Alabama list. Shelton State Community College is a small public school located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama that handed out 145 basic certificates in 2021-2022.
The average in-state tuition and fees for students at Shelton State Community College is $4,980. Those students who come from outside the state pay an average of $8,730. Of those students who received their degree, 39% were women.
In 2020-2021 about 67% of the undergraduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.
The excellent basic certificate programs at Bishop State Community College helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular trade school schools in Alabama. Bishop State Community College is a small public school situated in Mobile, Alabama. It awarded 244 basic certificates in 2021-2022.
The average in-state tuition and fees for students at Bishop State Community College is $4,920. Those students who come from outside the state pay an average of $8,670. Of those students who received their degree, 29% were women.
During the 2020-2021 year, about 54% of the undergraduates at the school took at least one online course.
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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.