2023 Best Value Computer Science Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Illinois

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Prices

There are so many computer science programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one for you. 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 Computer Science Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Illinois ranking is one of many tools that Computer Science Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision.

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. 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.

For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

Top Value Computer Science Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Illinois

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#1

Southwestern Illinois College

Belleville, Illinois

19 Total Awards

#1 in Quality in Illinois

$5,940 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Southwestern Illinois College the best value school in Illinois for computer science students working on their undergraduate certificate. Southwestern Illinois College is a medium-sized public school located in Belleville, Illinois that handed out 19 undergraduate certificates in 2020-2021.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate students at SWIC are $5,940 a year. By the time they get their undergraduate certificate, students from this school have racked up an average of $12,452 in student loans.

SWIC does offer online classes for certain degree levels. In 2019-2020 about 53% of the undergraduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, SWIC is ranked #1 for overall quality in Illinois.

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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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