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2023 Best Value Health Sciences & Services Basic Certificate Schools in Tennessee

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$4,405 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Health Sciences & Services Basic Certificate School for You

With 165 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, health sciences and services is the #14 most popular major in Tennessee.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which healthcare program is right 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 that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Healthcare Degree Search has created its Best Value Health Sciences & Services Basic Certificate Schools in Tennessee ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in Tennessee to see which ones offered the best value basic certificate programs for health 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.

Best Tennessee Schools for Affordable Quality for an Award Taking Less Than 1 Year in Health Sciences & Services

Our analysis found Dyersburg State Community College to be the best value school for health sciences and services students who want to pursue a basic certificate in Tennessee. DSCC is a small public school located in the distant town of Dyersburg.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at DSCC are $4,410 per year.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Cleveland State Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Health Sciences & Services Basic Certificate Schools in Tennessee list. Cleveland State Community College is a small public school located in the city of Cleveland.

Cleveland State Community College undergraduate students pay an average of $4,400 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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Best Value Health Sciences & Services Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Value Health Sciences & Services Colleges in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Florida 4,327
North Carolina 203
Kentucky 385
Georgia 544
West Virginia 100
Virginia 247
Alabama 240
Louisiana 214
Mississippi 325
South Carolina 87
Arkansas 291

One of 30 majors within the healthcare area of study, health sciences and services has other similar majors worth exploring.

Health Science Focus Areas

Major Annual Graduates
General Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences 29,840
General Health & Wellness 6,105

Majors Similar to Health Science

Related Major Annual Graduates
Nursing 322,592
Health & Medical Administrative Services 89,359
Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services 84,492
Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants 84,274
Allied Health Professions 82,308

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Sandra M. Palumbo.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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