2023 Best Value Teaching Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Arkansas

Identifying High-Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

There are so many teaching programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one for you. 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 Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Arkansas ranking is one of many tools that Teaching Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 2 schools in Arkansas to see which ones offered the best value undergraduate 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. 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.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

Top Value Teaching Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Arkansas

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

#1

University of Arkansas - Fort Smith

Fort Smith, Arkansas

1 Total Awards

#2 in Quality in Arkansas

$13,026 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named University of Arkansas - Fort Smith the best value school in Arkansas for teaching students working on their undergraduate certificate. UAFS is a medium-sized public school situated in Fort Smith, Arkansas. It awarded 1 undergraduate certificates in 2020-2021.

UAFS undergraduate students pay an average of $13,026 in tuition and fees each year.

Online courses are available at UAFS, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. In 2019-2020 about 82% of the undergraduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.

UAFS did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Teaching Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Arkansas list.

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#2

University of Arkansas at Monticello

Monticello, Arkansas

19 Total Awards

#1 in Quality in Arkansas

$13,879 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in Arkansas that were part of this year’s value ranking, University of Arkansas at Monticello landed the # 2 spot on the list. UAM is a small public school situated in Monticello, Arkansas. It awarded 19 undergraduate certificates in 2020-2021.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate students at UAM are $13,879 a year. Undergraduate Certificate recipients from this school accumulate an average of $10,986 in student debt by the time they complete their degree.

If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since UAM does offer online classes for certain majors. In fact, around 52% of the undergraduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.

UAM also took the #1 spot in our Best Teaching Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Arkansas 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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