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2023 Best Value General Education Basic Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$25,328 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best General Education Basic Certificate School for You

In 2020-2021, 29,810 general education students received a degree or certificate, making the major the #5 most popular in the country.

When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for teaching students. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Teaching Degree Search has created the Best Value General Education Basic Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which basic certificate programs offered the best value experiences for education students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

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

2023 Best Value General Education Basic Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for education majors pursuing a basic certificate.

Best Great Lakes Region Schools for Affordable Quality for an Award Taking Less Than 1 Year in General Education

Our analysis found University of Wisconsin - Stout to be the best value school for general education students who want to pursue a basic certificate in the Great Lakes Region . Located in the distant town of Menomonie, UW - Stout is a public college with a moderately-sized student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UW - Stout are $17,820 per year.

Full General Education at University of Wisconsin - Stout Report

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Wisconsin - Green Bay. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value General Education Basic Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in the city of Green Bay, UW - Green Bay is a public school with a moderately-sized student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UW - Green Bay are $16,091 per year.

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#3

Purdue University - Main Campus

West Lafayette, IN

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Purdue University - Main Campus. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value General Education Basic Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Purdue is a very large public school located in the small city of West Lafayette.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Purdue are $28,794 per year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, Purdue also is in the top 20% of our Best General Education Basic Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Wisconsin - Madison. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value General Education Basic Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. UW - Madison is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Madison.

UW - Madison undergraduate students pay an average of $38,608 in tuition and fees each year.

UW - Madison not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #5 on our Best General Education Basic Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region list.

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Best General Education Colleges by State

Explore the best general education schools for a specific state in the Great Lakes region.

State Degrees Awarded
Ohio 706
Illinois 453
Indiana 502
Michigan 700
Wisconsin 515

One of 14 majors within the teaching area of study, general education has other similar majors worth exploring.

Education Concentrations

Major Annual Graduates
General Education 29,810

Majors Similar to Education

Related Major Annual Graduates
Teacher Education Grade Specific 110,226
Educational Administration 46,469
Teacher Education Subject Specific 43,297
Special Education 36,792
Curriculum & Instruction 19,832

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 4 schools only.

  • 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 the rest 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to KOKUYO.

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