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

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$12,195 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$33,984 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants Doctor'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 help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Nursing Degree Search has developed this Best Value Nursing & Nursing Assistants Doctor's Degree Schools ranking.

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.

The following school tops our list of the Best Value Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants Doctor's Degree Colleges.

Best Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants Doctor's Degree School

#1

Rivier University

Nashua, NH

Our 2023 rankings named Rivier University the best value school in the United States for practical nursing and nursing assistants students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in the city of Nashua, Rivier is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

Rivier graduate students pay an average of $12,195 in tuition and fees each year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, Rivier also is in the top 15% of our Best Nursing & Nursing Assistants Doctor’s Degree Schools ranking.

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Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants by Region

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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 values are for the top school 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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