2023 Best Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in South Carolina

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The Best Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in South Carolina ranking is one of many tools that Nursing Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 3 schools in South Carolina to see which ones offered the best graduate certificate programs for nursing students. The factors used to develop this ranking include those related to how in-demand the school us, the overall quality of the school, and post-graduation wages, and more.

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Top Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in South Carolina

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

#1

University of South Carolina - Columbia

Columbia, South Carolina

$14,134 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named University of South Carolina - Columbia the best school in South Carolina for nursing students working on their graduate certificate.

If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since UofSC does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. In fact, around 74% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.

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#2

Anderson University South Carolina

Anderson, South Carolina

$11,643 Average Tuition & Fees

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

Some students may be able to take online graduate classes at Anderson University South Carolina. In 2019-2020 about 73% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.

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#3

South University, Columbia

Columbia, South Carolina

$16,320 Average Tuition & Fees

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

Online graduate courses are available at South University, Columbia, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. During the 2019-2020 year, about 34% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*These averages are for the top 3 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%.

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