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2023 Best Value Nursing Master's Degree Schools in Delaware

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Prices

3 Schools Ranked
$13,594 Avg Tuition & Fees*

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

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Nursing Degree Search has created the Best Value Nursing Master's Degree Schools in Delaware to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 3 schools in Delaware to see which ones offered the best value master's degree programs for nursing students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

Top Value Nursing Master's Degree Schools in Delaware

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

#1

Wilmington University

New Castle, Delaware
119 Total Awards
$9,060 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Wilmington University the best value school in Delaware for nursing students working on their master’s degree. Wilmington University is located in New Castle, Delaware and has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 119 master’s degrees to qualified students.

Wilmington University graduate students pay an average of $9,060 in tuition and fees each year.

One thing to take note of is that Wilmington University does offer online graduate classes in some areas. In fact, around 82% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.

Wilmington University not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #2 on our Best Nursing Master’s Degree Schools in Delaware list.

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#2

University of Delaware

Newark, Delaware
2 Total Awards
$18,128 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Delaware. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Nursing Master’s Degree Schools in Delaware list. University of Delaware is a large public school located in Newark, Delaware that handed out 2 master’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UD are $18,128 a year.

You may have the opportunity to take online graduate classes at UD. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 81% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.

UD did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Nursing Master’s Degree Schools in Delaware list.

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#3

Wesley College

Dover, Delaware

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Wesley College. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Nursing Master’s Degree Schools in Delaware list. Wesley College is a very small private not-for-profit school located in Dover, Delaware that handed out 8 master’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Wesley College are $0 a year.

Wesley College 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. In fact, around 14% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.

Wesley College did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our Best Nursing Master’s Degree Schools in Delaware list.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*These averages are for the top 3 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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