2023 Best Value Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in Arkansas
Identifying High-Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Today's nursing students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools and bootcamps that offer fast-track entry to many fields.
The Best Value Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in Arkansas ranking is one of many tools that Nursing Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Arkansas to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for nursing students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.
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.
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Top Value Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in Arkansas
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Our analysis found Arkansas State University - Main Campus to be the best value school for nursing students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in Arkansas. This fairly large public school is located in Jonesboro, Arkansas, and it awarded 3 graduate certificates in 2020-2021.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at A-State are $11,408 a year.
If you are interested in distance education, be sure to check with the school since A-State does offer online graduate classes for certain majors. In fact, around 83% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.
A-State also made our Best Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in Arkansas list, coming in at #1.
A rank of #2 on this year’s list means University of Central Arkansas is a great place for nursing students working on their graduate certificate who want the most bang for their educational buck. This fairly large public school is located in Conway, Arkansas, and it awarded 1 graduate certificates in 2020-2021.
UCA graduate students pay an average of $11,835 in tuition and fees each year.
Some students may be able to take online graduate classes at UCA. During the 2019-2020 year, about 70% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.
UCA also took the #2 spot in our Best Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in Arkansas rankings.
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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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