2023 Best Value Teaching Basic Certificate Schools in Michigan
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Prices
When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for teaching students. 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 and bootcamps that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.
Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Teaching Degree Search has created the Best Value Teaching Basic Certificate Schools in Michigan to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 4 schools in Michigan to see which ones offered the best value basic certificate programs for teaching students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.
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.
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Top Value Teaching Basic Certificate Schools in Michigan
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Our 2023 rankings named Central Michigan University the best value school in Michigan for teaching students working on their basic certificate. Central Michigan is a fairly large public school situated in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. It awarded 4 basic certificates in 2020-2021.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate students at Central Michigan are $13,094 a year.
You may have the opportunity to take online classes at Central Michigan. In 2019-2020 about 36% of the undergraduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.
Central Michigan did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Teaching Basic Certificate Schools in Michigan list.
The excellent basic certificate programs at Grand Valley State University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value teaching schools in Michigan. GVSU is a public institution located in Allendale, Michigan. The school has a large population, and it awarded 30 basic certificates in 2020-2021.
Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at GVSU are $19,628 per year.
If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since GVSU does offer online classes for certain majors. In fact, around 94% of the undergraduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.
GVSU did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Teaching Basic Certificate Schools in Michigan list.
The excellent basic certificate programs at University of Michigan - Flint helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value teaching schools in Michigan. This medium-sized public school is located in Flint, Michigan, and it awarded 9 basic certificates in 2020-2021.
Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UM Flint are $24,058 per year.
If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since UM Flint does offer online classes for certain majors. During the 2019-2020 year, about 62% of the undergraduates at the school took at least one online course.
UM Flint not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #4 on our Best Teaching Basic Certificate Schools in Michigan list.
Out of the 4 schools in Michigan that were part of this year’s value ranking, Madonna University landed the # 4 spot on the list. Madonna is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Livonia, Michigan. It awarded 2 basic certificates in 2020-2021.
Madonna undergraduate students pay an average of $24,900 in tuition and fees each year.
Madonna does offer online classes for certain degree levels. During the 2019-2020 year, about 84% of the undergraduates at the school took at least one online course.
In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Madonna is ranked #3 for overall quality in Michigan.
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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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