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2023 Best Value Nursing & Nursing Assistants Basic Certificate Schools in the New England Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

6 Colleges
$10,499 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants Basic Certificate 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.

With all the nursing programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.

The Best Value Nursing & Nursing Assistants Basic Certificate Schools in the New England Region ranking is one of many tools that Nursing Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 6 schools in the New England Region to see which ones offered the best value basic certificate programs for practical nursing students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

Best New England Region Schools for Affordable Quality for an Award Taking Less Than 1 Year in Nursing & Nursing Assistants

Our 2023 rankings named Bunker Hill Community College the best value school in the New England Region for practical nursing and nursing assistants students working on their basic certificate. BHCC is a moderately-sized public school located in the city of Boston.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at BHCC are $10,224 per year.

BHCC did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Nursing & Nursing Assistants Basic Certificate Schools in the New England Region list.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Quinsigamond Community College. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Nursing & Nursing Assistants Basic Certificate Schools in the New England Region list. Quinsigamond Community College is a moderately-sized public school located in the city of Worcester.

Quinsigamond Community College undergraduate students pay an average of $10,774 in tuition and fees each year.

Quinsigamond Community College also took the #2 spot in our Best Nursing & Nursing Assistants Basic Certificate Schools in the New England Region rankings.

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#3

Stone Academy-Waterbury

Waterbury, CT

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Stone Academy-Waterbury. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Nursing & Nursing Assistants Basic Certificate Schools in the New England Region list. Stone Academy-Waterbury is a fairly small private for-profit school located in the suburb of Waterbury.

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The excellent basic certificate programs at Lincoln Technical Institute - Shelton helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value practical nursing and nursing assistants schools in the New England Region . Located in the large suburb of Shelton, Lincoln Tech - Shelton is a private for-profit college with a fairly small student population.

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#3

Stone Academy-East Hartford

East Hartford, CT

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Stone Academy-East Hartford. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Nursing & Nursing Assistants Basic Certificate Schools in the New England Region list. Stone Academy-East Hartford is a small private for-profit school located in the city of East Hartford.

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Stone Academy-West Haven

West Haven, CT

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Stone Academy-West Haven. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Nursing & Nursing Assistants Basic Certificate Schools in the New England Region list. Located in the large suburb of West Haven, Stone Academy-West Haven is a private for-profit school with a small student population.

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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 New England region.

State Degrees Awarded
New Hampshire 4
Massachusetts 5

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

Majors Similar to Practical Nursing

Related Major Annual Graduates
Nursing 322,592

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 6 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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