2023 Best Value Healthcare Basic Certificate Schools in New Jersey
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Prices
With all the healthcare programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best 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.
Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Healthcare Degree Search has created the Best Value Healthcare Basic Certificate Schools in New Jersey to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 8 schools in New Jersey to see which ones offered the best value basic certificate programs for healthcare students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.
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.
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Top Value Healthcare Basic Certificate Schools in New Jersey
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Our 2023 rankings named Camden County College the best value school in New Jersey for healthcare students working on their basic certificate. Camden County College is a medium-sized public school located in Blackwood, New Jersey that handed out 32 basic certificates in 2020-2021.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate students at Camden County College are $3,744 a year.
Online courses are available at Camden County College, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. Of all the undergraduates enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 95% took at least some of their classes online.
The excellent basic certificate programs at Ocean County College helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value healthcare schools in New Jersey. Ocean County College is a medium-sized public school located in Toms River, New Jersey that handed out 15 basic certificates in 2020-2021.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate students at OCC are $8,100 a year.
OCC does have options available for those who want to take online classes. You will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your specific major. During the 2019-2020 year, about 44% of the undergraduates at the school took at least one online course.
OCC not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #2 on our Best Healthcare Basic Certificate Schools in New Jersey list.
A rank of #3 on this year’s list means Raritan Valley Community College is a great place for healthcare students working on their basic certificate who want the most bang for their educational buck. Located in Branchburg, New Jersey, the medium-sized public school awarded 6 diplomas to qualifed basic certificate students in 2020-2021.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate students at RVCC are $6,912 a year.
RVCC does have options available for those who want to take online classes. You will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your specific major. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 81% of undergraduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.
RVCC did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our Best Healthcare Basic Certificate Schools in New Jersey list.
The excellent basic certificate programs at Passaic County Community College helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best value healthcare schools in New Jersey. Passaic County Community College is a medium-sized public school located in Paterson, New Jersey that handed out 27 basic certificates in 2020-2021.
Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at PCCC are $9,390 per year.
If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since PCCC does offer online classes for certain majors. Of all the undergraduates enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 26% took at least some of their classes online.
PCCC did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our Best Healthcare Basic Certificate Schools in New Jersey list.
Out of the 8 schools in New Jersey that were part of this year’s value ranking, Union County College landed the # 5 spot on the list. Located in Cranford, New Jersey, the medium-sized public school handed out 3 basic certificate awards in 2020-2021.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate students at Union County College are $10,562 a year.
Some students may be able to take online classes at Union County College. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 99% of undergraduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.
Union County College not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #3 on our Best Healthcare Basic Certificate Schools in New Jersey list.
Rowan College of South Jersey Gloucester Campus landed the #6 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value basic certificate healthcare programs. Located in Sewell, New Jersey, the medium-sized public school awarded 1 diplomas to qualifed basic certificate students in 2020-2021.
Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at RCSJ are $5,550 per year.
RCSJ does have options available for those who want to take online classes. You will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your specific major. Of all the undergraduates enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 95% took at least some of their classes online.
Hudson County Community College landed the #7 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value basic certificate healthcare programs. This medium-sized public school is located in Jersey City, New Jersey, and it awarded 1 basic certificates in 2020-2021.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate students at HCCC are $11,798 a year.
If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since HCCC does offer online classes for certain majors. In fact, around 2% of the undergraduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.
Rowan University landed the #8 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value basic certificate healthcare programs. Rowan University is a fairly large public school located in Glassboro, New Jersey that handed out 7 basic certificates in 2020-2021.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate students at Rowan are $23,408 a year.
You may have the opportunity to take online classes at Rowan. Of all the undergraduates enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 64% took at least some of their classes online.
In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Rowan is ranked #1 for overall quality in New Jersey.
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Notes and References
Footnotes
*These averages are for the top 8 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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