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2023 Best Value Teaching Assistant/Aide Basic Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

3 Colleges
$7,262 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Teaching Assistants Basic Certificate School for You

Out of all the majors we analyze each year, teaching assistants was ranked #13 in the country. In fact 2,751 degrees and certificates were handed out in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which teaching program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Teaching Degree Search has created its Best Value Teaching Assistant/Aide Basic Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. This report analyzed 3 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which ones offered the best value basic certificate programs for teaching assistants students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. 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.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Teaching Assistants Basic Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Teaching Assistants Basic Certificate Colleges.

Best Great Lakes Region Schools for Affordable Quality for an Award Taking Less Than 1 Year in Teaching Assistant/Aide

Our 2023 rankings named Fox Valley Technical College the best value school in the Great Lakes Region for teaching assistants students working on their basic certificate. Located in the midsize suburb of Appleton, FVTC is a public school with a large student population.

FVTC undergraduate students pay an average of $6,861 in tuition and fees each year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, FVTC also is in the top 15% of our Best Teaching Assistant/Aide Basic Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking.

Full Teaching Assistants at Fox Valley Technical College Report

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Northeast Wisconsin Technical College. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Teaching Assistant/Aide Basic Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in the midsize city of Green Bay, NWTC is a public school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at NWTC are $6,849 a year.

NWTC not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #2 on our Best Teaching Assistant/Aide Basic Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region list.

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A rank of #3 on this year’s list means Sinclair Community College is a great value for teaching assistants students working on their basic certificate. Located in the city of Dayton, Sinclair Community College is a public school with a large student population.

Sinclair Community College undergraduate students pay an average of $8,076 in tuition and fees each year.

Full Teaching Assistants at Sinclair Community College Report

Best Teaching Assistants Colleges by State

Explore the best teaching assistants colleges for a specific state in the Great Lakes region.

State Degrees Awarded
Ohio 2
Illinois 14
Michigan 7
Wisconsin 69

Teaching Assistants is one of 14 different types of teaching programs to choose from.

Teaching Assistants Concentrations

Major Annual Graduates
Teacher Assistant/Aide 2,003
Other Teaching Assistants/Aides 728
Adult Literacy Tutor/Instructor 20

Related Major Annual Graduates
Teacher Education Grade Specific 110,226
Educational Administration 46,469
Teacher Education Subject Specific 43,297
Special Education 36,792
General Education 29,810

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 3 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 IMCBerea College.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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