2023 Best Value Teaching Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania
Identifying High-Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Today's teaching students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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 Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 7 schools in Pennsylvania to see which undergraduate 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 Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania
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Our 2023 rankings named Delaware County Community College the best value school in Pennsylvania for teaching students working on their undergraduate certificate. Located in Media, Pennsylvania, the medium-sized public school handed out 5 undergraduate certificate awards in 2020-2021.
Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Delaware County Community College are $13,740 per year. On average, undergraduate certificate students take out $19,230 in loans while pursuing their degree.
Some students may be able to take online classes at Delaware County Community College. Of all the undergraduates enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 94% took at least some of their classes online.
Delaware County Community College also made our Best Teaching Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania list, coming in at #1.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Harrisburg Area Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Teaching Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania list. Located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the fairly large public school handed out 8 undergraduate certificate awards in 2020-2021.
Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at HACC are $9,818 per year. Undergraduate Certificate recipients from this school accumulate an average of $17,555 in student debt by the time they complete their degree.
Online courses are available at HACC, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 50% of undergraduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.
HACC also took the #3 spot in our Best Teaching Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania rankings.
The excellent undergraduate certificate programs at Lehigh Carbon Community College helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value teaching schools in Pennsylvania. Schnecksville, Pennsylvania is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out undergraduate certificates to 3 students in 2020-2021.
Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at LCCC are $12,060 per year. By the time they get their undergraduate certificate, students from this school have racked up an average of $20,130 in student loans.
One thing to take note of is that LCCC does offer online classes in some areas. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 87% of undergraduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.
LCCC did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our Best Teaching Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania list.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Bucks County Community College. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Teaching Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania list. Bucks County Community College is a medium-sized public school situated in Newtown, Pennsylvania. It awarded 1 undergraduate certificates in 2020-2021.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate students at Bucks County Community College are $13,298 a year. On average, undergraduate certificate students take out $19,268 in loans while pursuing their degree.
Some students may be able to take online classes at Bucks County Community College. During the 2019-2020 year, about 57% of the undergraduates at the school took at least one online course.
Bucks County Community College not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #4 on our Best Teaching Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania list.
Out of the 7 schools in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s value ranking, Northampton County Area Community College landed the # 5 spot on the list. Northampton Community College is a medium-sized public school situated in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. It awarded 1 undergraduate certificates in 2020-2021.
Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Northampton Community College are $15,270 per year. On average, undergraduate certificate students take out $24,960 in loans while pursuing their degree.
Some students may be able to take online classes at Northampton Community College. In fact, around 73% of the undergraduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.
Keystone College came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Teaching Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania ranking. Located in La Plume, Pennsylvania, the small private not-for-profit school handed out 8 undergraduate certificate awards in 2020-2021.
Keystone College undergraduate students pay an average of $17,300 in tuition and fees each year.
You may have the opportunity to take online classes at Keystone College. In 2019-2020 about 63% of the undergraduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.
Drexel University came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Teaching Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania ranking. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out undergraduate certificates to 14 students in 2020-2021.
Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Drexel are $57,136 per year.
Some students may be able to take online classes at Drexel. In fact, around 91% of the undergraduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.
Drexel also made our Best Teaching Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania list, coming in at #2.
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Footnotes
*These averages are for the top 7 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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