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2023 Best Value Nursing Basic Certificate Schools in Massachusetts

Identifying High-Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Schools Ranked
$10,499 Avg Tuition & Fees*

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. Also there are many trade schools and bootcamps that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Nursing Degree Search has developed this Best Value Nursing Basic Certificate Schools in Massachusetts ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in Massachusetts to see which ones offered the best value basic certificate programs for nursing students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

Top Value Nursing Basic Certificate Schools in Massachusetts

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

#1

Bunker Hill Community College

Boston, Massachusetts
14 Total Awards
$10,224 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found Bunker Hill Community College to be the best value school for nursing students who want to pursue a basic certificate in Massachusetts. BHCC is a public institution located in Boston, Massachusetts. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 14 basic certificates in 2020-2021.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate students at BHCC are $10,224 a year.

If you are interested in distance education, BHCC is an excellent choice, since the school is online.

BHCC did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Nursing Basic Certificate Schools in Massachusetts list.

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#2

Quinsigamond Community College

Worcester, Massachusetts
12 Total Awards
$10,774 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in Massachusetts that were part of this year’s value ranking, Quinsigamond Community College landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in Worcester, Massachusetts, the medium-sized public school handed out 12 basic certificate awards in 2020-2021.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate students at Quinsigamond Community College are $10,774 a year.

Online courses are available at Quinsigamond Community College, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. In 2019-2020 about 35% of the undergraduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.

Quinsigamond Community College also made our Best Nursing Basic Certificate Schools in Massachusetts list, coming in at #2.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

References

  • 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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