2023 Most Popular Online Basic Certificate Trade Schools in South Carolina
A trade school student has lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. As online education opportunities 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.
To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Trade College Search has developed this Most Popular Online Basic Certificate Trade Schools in South Carolina ranking. This report analyzed 4 schools in South Carolina to see which ones had the most popular online basic certificate programs 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 South Carolina
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Our 2023 rankings named Horry-Georgetown Technical College the most popular school in South Carolina for trade school students working on their basic certificate. Horry-Georgetown Technical College is a medium-sized public school located in Conway, South Carolina that handed out 647 basic certificates in 2021-2022.
Students from South Carolina who attend Horry-Georgetown Technical College full time pay an average of $5,356 in tuition and fees. Out-of-state students pay an average of $8,593. Around 52% of those degree recipients were women.
During the 2020-2021 year, about 72% of the undergraduates at the school took at least one online course.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Trident Technical College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Popular Online Basic Certificate Trade Schools in South Carolina list. Trident Technical College is a fairly large public school located in Charleston, South Carolina that handed out 1,107 basic certificates in 2021-2022.
Full-time students from South Carolina pay an average of $5,059 in tuition and fees if they choose to attend Trident Technical College. Those students who come from outside the state pay an average of $8,606. Around 60% of those degree recipients were women.
To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 75% of undergraduates took at least one course online in 2020-2021.
A rank of #3 on this year’s list means Central Carolina Technical College is a great place for trade school students working on their basic certificate. Located in Sumter, South Carolina, the small public school handed out 255 basic certificate awards in 2021-2022.
Students from South Carolina who attend Central Carolina full time pay an average of $6,594 in tuition and fees. If you are from out of state, expect to pay an average of $9,016. Around 46% of those degree recipients were women.
In 2020-2021 about 61% of the undergraduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.
The excellent basic certificate programs at Greenville Technical College helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular trade school schools in South Carolina. GTC is located in Greenville, South Carolina and has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 574 basic certificates to qualified students.
The average in-state tuition and fees for students at GTC is $5,882. Out-of-state students pay an average of $10,202. Of those students who received their degree, 51% were women.
Of all the undergraduates enrolled at the school during the 2020-2021 academic year, around 82% took at least some of their classes online.
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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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