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2023 Best Value Computer Science Basic Certificate Schools in Tennessee

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Prices

2 Schools Ranked
$17,230 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Today's computer science 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.

The Best Value Computer Science Basic Certificate Schools in Tennessee ranking is one of many tools that Computer Science Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 2 schools in Tennessee 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.

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. 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.

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

Top Value Computer Science Basic Certificate Schools in Tennessee

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

#1

Nashville State Community College

Nashville, Tennessee
26 Total Awards
$17,188 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Nashville State Community College the best value school in Tennessee for computer science students working on their basic certificate. Located in Nashville, Tennessee, the medium-sized public school handed out 26 basic certificate awards in 2020-2021.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate students at Nashville State Community College are $17,188 a year.

If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since Nashville State Community College does offer online classes for certain majors. Of all the undergraduates enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 63% took at least some of their classes online.

Nashville State Community College also made our Best Computer Science Basic Certificate Schools in Tennessee list, coming in at #1.

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#2

Pellissippi State Community College

Knoxville, Tennessee
103 Total Awards
$17,272 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent basic certificate programs at Pellissippi State Community College helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value computer science schools in Tennessee. Pellissippi State Community College is a medium-sized public school located in Knoxville, Tennessee that handed out 103 basic certificates in 2020-2021.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate students at Pellissippi State Community College are $17,272 a year.

Depending on your major, you may be able to take online classes at Pellissippi State Community College. In fact, around 95% of the undergraduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.

Pellissippi State Community College also took the #2 spot in our Best Computer Science Basic Certificate Schools in Tennessee rankings.

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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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