2023 Best Value Teaching Basic Certificate Schools in Texas

Identifying High-Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

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 and bootcamps that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Teaching Degree Search has developed this Best Value Teaching Basic Certificate Schools in Texas ranking.

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.

Top Value Teaching Basic Certificate Schools in Texas

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

#1

The University of Texas at San Antonio

San Antonio, Texas

2 Total Awards

#1 in Quality in Texas

$21,528 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named The University of Texas at San Antonio the best value school in Texas for teaching students working on their basic certificate. UTSA is a public institution located in San Antonio, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 2 basic certificates in 2020-2021.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UTSA are $21,528 per year.

Online courses are available at UTSA, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. Of all the undergraduates enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 100% took at least some of their classes online.

UTSA not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #1 on our Best Teaching Basic Certificate Schools in Texas 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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