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2023 Best Nursing Master's Degree Schools in Delaware

3 Schools Ranked
$42,724 Avg Student Debt

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. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school or bootcamp that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Nursing Degree Search has created the Best Nursing Master's Degree Schools in Delaware to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Delaware to see which master's degree programs offered the best educational experiences 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 Master's Degree Schools in Delaware

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#1

University of Delaware

Newark, Delaware
953 Total Awards
$18,664 Average Tuition & Fees
$30,174 Avg Student Debt

Our 2023 rankings named University of Delaware the best school in Delaware for nursing students working on their master’s degree. UD is located in Newark, Delaware and has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 953 master’s degrees to qualified students.

On average, master’s degree students take out $30,174 in loans while pursuing their degree.

If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since UD does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. In 2020-2021 about 46% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.

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#2

Wilmington University

New Castle, Delaware
1,810 Total Awards
$9,276 Average Tuition & Fees
$33,721 Avg Student Debt

The excellent master’s degree programs at Wilmington University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best nursing schools in Delaware. Wilmington University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in New Castle, Delaware. It awarded 1,810 master’s degrees in 2021-2022.

On average, master’s degree students take out $33,721 in loans while pursuing their degree.

Depending on your major, you may be able to take online graduate classes at Wilmington University. During the 2020-2021 year, about 87% 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%.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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