2023 Best Value Teaching Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Missouri

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.

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 Missouri ranking.

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.

Top Value Teaching Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Missouri

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

#1

Missouri Southern State University

Joplin, Missouri

19 Total Awards

#1 in Quality in Missouri

$15,896 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Missouri Southern State University the best value school in Missouri for teaching students working on their undergraduate certificate. Missouri Southern is located in Joplin, Missouri and has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 19 undergraduate certificates to qualified students.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate students at Missouri Southern are $15,896 a year. By the time they get their undergraduate certificate, students from this school have racked up an average of $15,301 in student loans.

Missouri Southern does offer online classes for certain degree levels. In 2019-2020 about 56% of the undergraduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.

Missouri Southern not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #1 on our Best Teaching Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Missouri list.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*These averages are for the top 1 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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