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2023 Best Value Teaching Undergraduate Certificate Schools in West Virginia

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Prices

2 Schools Ranked
$18,966 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$14,894 Avg Student Debt*

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.

The Best Value Teaching Undergraduate Certificate Schools in West Virginia 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 West Virginia 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. 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.

Top Value Teaching Undergraduate Certificate Schools in West Virginia

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

#1

West Virginia University at Parkersburg

Parkersburg, West Virginia
2 Total Awards
$8,642 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named West Virginia University at Parkersburg the best value school in West Virginia for teaching students working on their undergraduate certificate. Located in Parkersburg, West Virginia, the small public school handed out 2 undergraduate certificate awards in 2020-2021.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at West Virginia University at Parkersburg are $8,642 per year. Undergraduate Certificate recipients from this school accumulate an average of $16,854 in student debt by the time they complete their degree.

One thing to take note of is that West Virginia University at Parkersburg does offer online classes in some areas. Of all the undergraduates enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 43% took at least some of their classes online.

West Virginia University at Parkersburg did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Teaching Undergraduate Certificate Schools in West Virginia list.

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#2

Wheeling University

Wheeling, West Virginia
17 Total Awards
$29,290 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Wheeling University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Teaching Undergraduate Certificate Schools in West Virginia list. Wheeling University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Wheeling, West Virginia. The school has a very small population, and it awarded 17 undergraduate certificates in 2020-2021.

Wheeling University undergraduate students pay an average of $29,290 in tuition and fees each year.

Wheeling University is primarily an online school, so it is a great choice for returning adults and students who work full time.

Wheeling University also took the #1 spot in our Best Teaching Undergraduate Certificate Schools in West Virginia 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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