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2023 Best Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in Connecticut

4 Schools Ranked
$25,906 Avg Student Debt

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.

The Best Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in Connecticut ranking is one of many tools that Nursing Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 4 schools in Connecticut to see which ones offered the best graduate 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.

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Top Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in Connecticut

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

#1

Yale University

New Haven, Connecticut

Our 2023 rankings named Yale University the best school in Connecticut for nursing students working on their graduate certificate.

Online graduate courses are available at Yale, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. In fact, around 98% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.

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#2

University of Connecticut

Storrs, Connecticut
$20,325 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent graduate certificate programs at University of Connecticut helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best nursing schools in Connecticut.

If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since UCONN does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. Of all the graduate students enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 74% took at least some of their classes online.

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#3

University of Saint Joseph

West Hartford, Connecticut
$15,264 Average Tuition & Fees
$24,310 Avg Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Saint Joseph. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in Connecticut list.

Graduate Certificate recipients from USJ accumulate an average of $24,310 in student debt by the time they complete their degree.

Depending on your major, you may be able to take online graduate classes at USJ. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 21% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.

Full University of Saint Joseph Report

#4

Southern Connecticut State University

New Haven, Connecticut
$13,321 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Connecticut State University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in Connecticut list.

SCSU does have options available for those who want to take online graduate classes. You will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your specific major. During the 2019-2020 year, about 93% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.

Full Southern Connecticut State University Report

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*These averages are for the top 4 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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