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2023 Best Value Teaching Basic Certificate Schools in California

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Prices

1 Schools Ranked
$16,631 Avg Tuition & Fees*

When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for teaching students. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools and bootcamps that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

The Best Value Teaching Basic Certificate Schools in California ranking is one of many tools that Teaching Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision.

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.

Top Value Teaching Basic Certificate Schools in California

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

#1

Alliant International University

San Diego, California
150 Total Awards
$16,631 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found Alliant International University to be the best value school for teaching students who want to pursue a basic certificate in California. Located in San Diego, California, the small private for-profit school awarded 150 diplomas to qualifed basic certificate students in 2020-2021.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate students at Alliant are $16,631 a year.

One thing to take note of is that Alliant does offer online classes in some areas. In 2019-2020 about 52% of the undergraduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.

Alliant did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Teaching Basic Certificate Schools in California list.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*These averages are for the top 1 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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