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2023 Best Value Nursing & Nursing Assistants Bachelor's Degree Schools

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$5,658 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$16,197 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants Bachelor's 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. 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, Nursing Degree Search has created its Best Value Nursing & Nursing Assistants Bachelor's Degree Schools ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in the United States to see which ones offered the best value bachelor's 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 Schools for Affordable Quality for a Bachelor's in Nursing & Nursing Assistants

Our 2023 rankings named Universidad del Turabo the best value school in the United States for practical nursing and nursing assistants students working on their bachelor’s degree. Located in the large suburb of Gurabo, Universidad del Turabo is a private not-for-profit school with a large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Universidad del Turabo are $5,820 a year. While working on their Bachelor's Degree, practical nursing majors at Universidad del Turabo accumulate an average of around $34,962 in student debt.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, Universidad del Turabo also did well on our Best Nursing & Nursing Assistants Bachelor’s Degree Schools list. It’s in the top 10% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Caribbean University - Bayamon. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Nursing & Nursing Assistants Bachelor’s Degree Schools list. Located in the midsize city of Bayamon, Caribbean University - Bayamon is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Caribbean University - Bayamon are $5,496 a year.

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Southwest
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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 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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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