2023 Best Value Computer Science Basic Certificate Schools in Oregon
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Prices
It's not easy to decide which computer science program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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 Basic Certificate Schools in Oregon to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 2 schools in Oregon to see which ones offered the best value basic certificate programs for computer science students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.
Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.
In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.
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Top Value Computer Science Basic Certificate Schools in Oregon
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Our 2023 rankings named Portland Community College the best value school in Oregon for computer science students working on their basic certificate. Located in Portland, Oregon, the large public school awarded 115 diplomas to qualifed basic certificate students in 2020-2021.
Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Portland Community College are $9,670 per year.
One thing to take note of is that Portland Community College does offer online classes in some areas. Of all the undergraduates enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 94% took at least some of their classes online.
Portland Community College did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Computer Science Basic Certificate Schools in Oregon list.
Out of the 2 schools in Oregon that were part of this year’s value ranking, Lane Community College landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in Eugene, Oregon, the medium-sized public school handed out 27 basic certificate awards in 2020-2021.
Lane Community College undergraduate students pay an average of $11,345 in tuition and fees each year.
Some students may be able to take online classes at Lane Community College. In 2019-2020 about 50% 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, Lane Community College is ranked #2 for overall quality in Oregon.
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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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