2023 Best Value Nursing Master's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Finding the Best Nursing Master's Degree School for You
Nursing is the most popular major in the United States with 27,247 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021.
With all the nursing programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best 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 Master's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking. Our analysis looked at 21 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to see which master's degree programs offered the best value experiences for nursing students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.
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.
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Our analysis found Denver College of Nursing to be the best value school for nursing students who want to pursue a master’s degree in the Rocky Mountains Region . Denver College of Nursing is a small private for-profit school located in the city of Denver.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Denver College of Nursing are $1,840 per year.
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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Western Governors University is a great value for nursing students working on their master’s degree. Located in the large suburb of Salt Lake City, WGU is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at WGU are $7,790 a year.
WGU also took the #2 spot in our Best Nursing Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region rankings.
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The excellent master’s degree programs at Brigham Young University - Provo helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value nursing schools in the Rocky Mountains Region . BYU is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Provo.
BYU graduate students pay an average of $7,700 in tuition and fees each year.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Northwest Nazarene University. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Nursing Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Located in the midsize suburb of Nampa, NNU is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.
NNU graduate students pay an average of $10,964 in tuition and fees each year.
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Out of the 21 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Westminster College Utah landed the # 5 spot on the list. Westminster College Salt Lake is a small private not-for-profit school located in the medium-sized city of Salt Lake City.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Westminster College Salt Lake are $16,689 per year.
Westminster College Salt Lake not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #3 on our Best Nursing Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list.
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University of Providence did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for nursing students to get a master’s degree. It came in at #6 on the list. University of Providence is a fairly small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Great Falls.
University of Providence graduate students pay an average of $24,327 in tuition and fees each year.
University of Providence did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Nursing Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list.
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Regis University landed the #7 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value master’s degree nursing programs. Located in the large city of Denver, Regis U is a private not-for-profit college with a medium-sized student population.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Regis U are $15,079 a year.
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University of Wyoming did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for nursing students to get a master’s degree. It came in at #8 on the list. Located in the town of Laramie, UW is a public college with a fairly large student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UW are $17,569 per year.
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Colorado State University - Pueblo landed the #9 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value master’s degree nursing programs. Colorado State University - Pueblo is a medium-sized public school located in the medium-sized city of Pueblo.
Colorado State University - Pueblo graduate students pay an average of $19,773 in tuition and fees each year.
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Colorado Mesa University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for nursing students to get a master’s degree. It came in at #10 on the list. Colorado Mesa is a moderately-sized public school located in the city of Grand Junction.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Colorado Mesa are $14,535 per year.
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Explore the best nursing schools for a specific state in the Rocky Mountains region.
| State | Degrees Awarded |
|---|---|
| Colorado | 6,496 |
| Utah | 17,535 |
| Montana | 745 |
| Idaho | 1,593 |
| Wyoming | 397 |
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| Related Major | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants | 84,274 |
Notes and References
*These averages are for the top 21 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).
- Credit for the banner image above goes to Aleksahgabrielle.
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