2023 Best Value Nursing Basic Certificate Schools in Alabama

Identifying High-Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

Today's nursing students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school or bootcamp that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Nursing Degree Search has created its Best Value Nursing Basic Certificate Schools in Alabama ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Alabama to see which basic certificate programs offered the best value experiences for nursing students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

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. 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.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

Top Value Nursing Basic Certificate Schools in Alabama

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

#1

Coastal Alabama Community College

Bay Minette, Alabama

8 Total Awards

#1 in Quality in Alabama

$8,850 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Coastal Alabama Community College the best value school in Alabama for nursing students working on their basic certificate. This medium-sized public school is located in Bay Minette, Alabama, and it awarded 8 basic certificates in 2020-2021.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Coastal Alabama Community College are $8,850 per year.

You may have the opportunity to take online classes at Coastal Alabama Community College. Of all the undergraduates enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 51% took at least some of their classes online.

Coastal Alabama Community College did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Nursing Basic Certificate Schools in Alabama list.

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#2

Snead State Community College

Boaz, Alabama

9 Total Awards

#2 in Quality in Alabama

$9,280 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in Alabama that were part of this year’s value ranking, Snead State Community College landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in Boaz, Alabama, the small public school awarded 9 diplomas to qualifed basic certificate students in 2020-2021.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Snead State Community College are $9,280 per year.

If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since Snead State Community College does offer online classes for certain majors. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 83% of undergraduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.

Snead State Community College also took the #2 spot in our Best Nursing Basic Certificate Schools in Alabama 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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