2023 Best Value Teaching Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Minnesota
Identifying High-Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Today's teaching students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school or bootcamp that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.
To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Teaching Degree Search has created its Best Value Teaching Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Minnesota ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Minnesota 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 Minnesota
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Our analysis found Alexandria Technical & Community College to be the best value school for teaching students who want to pursue a undergraduate certificate in Minnesota. This small public school is located in Alexandria, Minnesota, and it awarded 1 undergraduate certificates in 2020-2021.
ATCC undergraduate students pay an average of $5,910 in tuition and fees each year. Undergraduate Certificate recipients from this school accumulate an average of $17,612 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 ATCC does offer online classes for certain majors. Of all the undergraduates enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 48% took at least some of their classes online.
ATCC also made our Best Teaching Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Minnesota list, coming in at #2.
Out of the 2 schools in Minnesota that were part of this year’s value ranking, Rasmussen University - Minnesota landed the # 2 spot on the list. Rasmussen University - Minnesota is a small private for-profit school located in St. Cloud, Minnesota that handed out 29 undergraduate certificates in 2020-2021.
Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Rasmussen University - Minnesota are $13,558 per year. Undergraduate Certificate recipients from this school accumulate an average of $20,381 in student debt by the time they complete their degree.
You may have the opportunity to take online classes at Rasmussen University - Minnesota. In 2019-2020 about 99% of the undergraduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.
Rasmussen University - Minnesota also made our Best Teaching Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Minnesota list, coming in at #1.
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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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