2023 Best Nursing Basic Certificate Schools in Massachusetts

Today's nursing students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school or bootcamp that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Nursing Degree Search has created its Best Nursing Basic Certificate Schools in Massachusetts ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in Massachusetts to see which ones offered the best basic certificate programs for nursing students. Factors related to overall quality of the school, post-graduation earnings, average student debt, and more accumulated were considered when coming up with this list.

View our full ranking methodology.

Top Nursing Basic Certificate Schools in Massachusetts

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

#1

Bunker Hill Community College

Boston, Massachusetts

$5,280 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found Bunker Hill Community College to be the best school for nursing students who want to pursue a basic certificate in Massachusetts.

Students from Massachusetts who attend BHCC full time pay an average of $5,280 in tuition and fees. Those students who come from outside the state pay an average of $10,224.

BHCC is one of the schools on our list that is primarily online. Each undergraduate student at the school took at least one class online.

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#2

Quinsigamond Community College

Worcester, Massachusetts

$5,830 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent basic certificate programs at Quinsigamond Community College helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best nursing schools in Massachusetts.

Full-time students from Massachusetts pay an average of $5,830 in tuition and fees if they choose to attend Quinsigamond Community College. Those students who come from outside the state pay an average of $10,774.

You may have the opportunity to take online classes at Quinsigamond Community College. In fact, around 35% of the undergraduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

References

• Read more about our ranking methodology.
• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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