2023 Best Value Teaching Basic Certificate Schools in Illinois
Identifying High-Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Today's teaching students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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.
To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Teaching Degree Search has created its Best Value Teaching Basic Certificate Schools in Illinois ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Illinois to see which basic certificate programs offered the best value experiences for teaching students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.
This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. 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.
For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.
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Top Value Teaching Basic Certificate Schools in Illinois
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Our 2023 rankings named College of Lake County the best value school in Illinois for teaching students working on their basic certificate. Grayslake, Illinois is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out basic certificates to 30 students in 2020-2021.
College of Lake County undergraduate students pay an average of $12,824 in tuition and fees each year.
Some students may be able to take online classes at College of Lake County. Of all the undergraduates enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 91% took at least some of their classes online.
College of Lake County not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #1 on our Best Teaching Basic Certificate Schools in Illinois list.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rasmussen University - Illinois. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Teaching Basic Certificate Schools in Illinois list. This small private for-profit school is located in Rockford, Illinois, and it awarded 50 basic certificates in 2020-2021.
Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Rasmussen University - Illinois are $13,883 per year.
Depending on your major, you may be able to take online classes at Rasmussen University - Illinois. In 2019-2020 about 99% of the undergraduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.
Rasmussen University - Illinois also took the #2 spot in our Best Teaching Basic Certificate Schools in Illinois rankings.
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Notes and References
Footnotes
*These averages are for the top 2 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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