2024 Best Schools for the Money (No Aid) in Delaware

With all of the options you have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take when you want to pursue a degree. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our Best Colleges for the Money in Delaware ranking is part of that endeavor.

In This Year's Value Report:

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Your Choice of School Matters

After analyzing 4 schools in Delaware, we came up with our list of those that offered the best value programs. Our ranking methodology focuses on different objective factors to make this determination of the best value schools. In the next few paragraphs, we'll talk a little about what we use in our analysis and why.

Our Methodology

To determine the value of a school in our Best Colleges for the Money in Delaware ranking, we first add average tuition, fees, and room and board costs (without aid) together. In addition, the overall quality of a school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how much it costs.

To make it into this list a school must offer a quality education like the schools in our Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considers factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Find out more about our best value ranking methodology.

Related Rankings

You can scroll down to see the top schools for this ranking, but you may also want to view some of the other ranking methods listed below.

To get a better picture of the best value schools for your income range or for whether or not you'll receive aid, click on one of the tiles above. If you'd rather work on your degree in a specific area of the country, you might be interested in our rankings by place. In addition, we've put together a number of other college rankings that may help you in your search.

Know what field you want to major in? Make sure you check out our best value schools by major. In addition, you can select one of the links below to see the best value colleges for other degree levels.

• Best Associate Degree Colleges for the Money in Delaware
• Best Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for the Money in Delaware
• Best Master’s Degree Colleges for the Money in Delaware
• Best Doctor’s Degree Colleges for the Money in Delaware

Best Value Schools (No Aid) in Delaware

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

1

Delaware Technical Community College - Terry
Dover, Delaware

#2 Quality Rank in DE

$4,945 Average Tution & Fees

$8,400 Off Campus Room & Board

Our analysis found Delaware Technical Community College - Terry to be the best value (no aid) school in Delaware in this year’s ranking. Delaware Tech is a fairly large public school situated in Dover, Delaware.

In addition to being included on this ranking as a good value, Delaware Technical Community College - Terry is ranked #2 for quality in the state of Delaware. The average cost without aid for the school is $13,345 a year for undergraduates. The average cost to attend the school for graduate students if you don’t receive any aid is $8,400 a year.

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2

Wilmington University
New Castle, Delaware

#3 Quality Rank in DE

$11,760 Average Tution & Fees

$6,000 Off Campus Room & Board

The quality degree programs at Wilmington University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of Best Colleges for the Money in Delaware. Wilmington University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in New Castle, Delaware.

In addition to being included on this ranking as a good value, Wilmington University is ranked #3 for quality in the state of Delaware. The average cost without aid for the school is $17,760 a year for undergraduates. The average cost without aid for the school is $15,060 per year for graduate students.

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3

University of Delaware
Newark, Delaware

#1 Quality Rank in DE

$15,020 Average Tution & Fees

$13,742 On Campus Room & Board

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Delaware. It ranked #3 on our 2024 Best Colleges for the Money in Delaware list. UD is a large public school situated in Newark, Delaware.

In addition to being included on this ranking as a good value, University of Delaware is ranked #1 for quality in the state of Delaware. The average cost for undergraduates to attend the school if you don’t receive any aid is $28,762 a year. The average cost without aid for the school is $31,870 per year for graduate students.

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4

Delaware State University
Dover, Delaware

#4 Quality Rank in DE

$8,358 Average Tution & Fees

$13,068 On Campus Room & Board

The quality degree programs at Delaware State University helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of Best Colleges for the Money in Delaware. Located in Dover, Delaware, the school is a medium-sized public institution.

Delaware State University has the honor of being ranked #4 in Delaware for overall quality on top of being a good value. The average cost without aid for the school is $21,426 a year for undergraduates. The average cost without aid for the school is $18,578 per year for graduate students.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*These averages are for the top 4 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 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.