2023 Best Value Teaching Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Arizona
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. 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.
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 Arizona to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 4 schools in Arizona 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.
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.
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Top Value Teaching Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Arizona
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Our analysis found Pima Community College to be the best value school for teaching students who want to pursue a undergraduate certificate in Arizona. Pima Community College is a fairly large public school located in Tucson, Arizona that handed out 66 undergraduate certificates in 2020-2021.
Pima County Community College District undergraduate students pay an average of $7,566 in tuition and fees each year. On average, undergraduate certificate students take out $13,293 in loans while pursuing their degree.
Online courses are available at Pima County Community College District, 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, 52% of undergraduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.
In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Pima County Community College District is ranked #1 for overall quality in Arizona.
The excellent undergraduate certificate programs at Arizona State University - Tempe helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value teaching schools in Arizona. ASU - Tempe is a public institution located in Tempe, Arizona. The school has a large population, and it awarded 32 undergraduate certificates in 2020-2021.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate students at ASU - Tempe are $29,438 a year. Undergraduate Certificate recipients from this school accumulate an average of $20,433 in student debt by the time they complete their degree.
ASU - Tempe does offer online classes for certain degree levels. Of all the undergraduates enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 93% took at least some of their classes online.
ASU - Tempe did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Teaching Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Arizona list.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northern Arizona University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Teaching Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Arizona list. Flagstaff, Arizona is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out undergraduate certificates to 33 students in 2020-2021.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate students at NAU are $17,761 a year. By the time they get their undergraduate certificate, students from this school have racked up an average of $19,719 in student loans.
You may have the opportunity to take online classes at NAU. During the 2019-2020 year, about 59% of the undergraduates at the school took at least one online course.
NAU also made our Best Teaching Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Arizona list, coming in at #3.
A rank of #4 on this year’s list means Arizona Christian University is a great place for teaching students working on their undergraduate certificate who want the most bang for their educational buck. This small private not-for-profit school is located in Phoenix, Arizona, and it awarded 3 undergraduate certificates in 2020-2021.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate students at Arizona Christian University are $30,624 a year.
Online courses are available at Arizona Christian University, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. In fact, around 33% of the undergraduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.
In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Arizona Christian University is ranked #4 for overall quality in Arizona.
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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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