2023 Best Value Engineering Undergraduate Certificate Schools
Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices
Finding the Best Engineering Undergraduate Certificate School for You
With 198,468 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, engineering is the #7 most popular major in the United States.
There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right 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 that offer fast-track entry to many fields.
To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Best Value Engineering Undergraduate Certificate Schools ranking. This report analyzed 4 schools in the United States to see which ones offered the best value undergraduate certificate programs for engineering 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.
Best Schools for Affordable Quality for an Award Taking 1 to 4 Years in Engineering
Our 2023 rankings named University of North Dakota the best value school in the United States for engineering students working on their undergraduate certificate. Located in the small city of Grand Forks, UND is a public college with a large student population.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at UND are $15,037 a year.
On top of its placing in our value ranking, UND also did well on our Best Engineering Undergraduate Certificate Schools list. It’s in the top 1% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Akron Main Campus. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Engineering Undergraduate Certificate Schools list. Located in the midsize city of Akron, University of Akron Main Campus is a public school with a large student population.
University of Akron Main Campus undergraduate students pay an average of $11,880 in tuition and fees each year.
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The excellent undergraduate certificate programs at Miami University - Oxford helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value engineering schools in the United States. Located in the fringe town of Oxford, Miami University - Oxford is a public school with a large student population.
Miami University - Oxford undergraduate students pay an average of $36,288 in tuition and fees each year.
Miami University - Oxford also claimed a spot on our Best Engineering Undergraduate Certificate Schools list. It’s in the top 10% of all schools in this category.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Boston University. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Engineering Undergraduate Certificate Schools list. Located in the city of Boston, Boston U is a private not-for-profit school with a very large student population.
Boston U undergraduate students pay an average of $59,816 in tuition and fees each year.
As a testament to the quality of education it offers, Boston U also is in the top 5% of our Best Engineering Undergraduate Certificate Schools ranking.
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Notes and References
*These averages are for the top 4 schools only.
- 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 the rest 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).
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