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2023 Best Value Nursing & Nursing Assistants Associate Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$22,422 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$41,222 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants Associate Degree School for You

With 84,274 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, practical nursing and nursing assistants is the #2 most popular major in the United States.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which nursing program is right for you. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools with offerings that you might find attractive.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Nursing Degree Search has created the Best Value Nursing & Nursing Assistants Associate Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 4 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to see which ones offered the best value associate degree programs for practical nursing 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.

Best Middle Atlantic Region Schools for Affordable Quality for an Associate in Nursing & Nursing Assistants

Our analysis found Pennsylvania Institute of Technology to be the best value school for practical nursing and nursing assistants students who want to pursue a associate degree in the Middle Atlantic Region . Located in the large suburb of Media, Pennsylvania Institute of Technology is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly small student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Pennsylvania Institute of Technology are $13,905 per year.

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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Pennsylvania College of Technology is a great value for practical nursing and nursing assistants students working on their associate degree. Penn College is a small public school located in the city of Williamsport.

Penn College undergraduate students pay an average of $25,170 in tuition and fees each year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, Penn College also did well on our Best Nursing & Nursing Assistants Associate Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list. It’s in the top 15% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

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A rank of #3 on this year’s list means Fortis Institute - Scranton is a great value for practical nursing and nursing assistants students working on their associate degree. Fortis Institute - Scranton is a small private for-profit school located in the small city of Scranton.

Fortis Institute - Scranton undergraduate students pay an average of $28,190 in tuition and fees each year.

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#4

PITC Institute

Wyncote, PA

The excellent associate degree programs at PITC Institute helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best value practical nursing and nursing assistants schools in the Middle Atlantic Region . PITC Institute is a fairly small private for-profit school located in the large suburb of Wyncote.

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Best Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants Colleges by State

Explore the best practical nursing and nursing assistants colleges for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic region.

State Degrees Awarded
Pennsylvania 97
New York 0

Practical Nursing Focus Areas

Major Annual Graduates
Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse Training 44,900
Nursing Assistant/Aide and Patient Care Assistant/Aide 34,557
Other Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants 4,817

Related Major Annual Graduates
Nursing 322,592

Notes and References

*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 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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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