2023 Best Value Computer Science Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania

Identifying High-Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for computer science students. 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Computer Science Degree Search has created the Best Value Computer Science Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania to help you in your search for the best school for you.

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 Computer Science Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

#1

Harrisburg Area Community College

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

10 Total Awards

#1 in Quality in Pennsylvania

$9,818 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Harrisburg Area Community College the best value school in Pennsylvania for computer science students working on their undergraduate certificate. Located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the fairly large public school handed out 10 undergraduate certificate awards in 2020-2021.

HACC undergraduate students pay an average of $9,818 in tuition and fees each year. Undergraduate Certificate recipients from this school accumulate an average of $17,555 in student debt by the time they complete their degree.

You may have the opportunity to take online classes at HACC. In fact, around 50% of the undergraduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.

HACC also took the #1 spot in our Best Computer Science Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania rankings.

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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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