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2023 Best Value Nursing Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Washington

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Prices

2 Schools Ranked
$7,890 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$14,532 Avg Student Debt*

With all the nursing programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school or bootcamp to be a better alternative for you.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Nursing Degree Search has created its Best Value Nursing Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Washington ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in Washington to see which ones offered the best value undergraduate certificate 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 Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Washington

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

#1

Clover Park Technical College

Lakewood, Washington
70 Total Awards
$5,740 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Clover Park Technical College the best value school in Washington for nursing students working on their undergraduate certificate. CPTC is a small public school situated in Lakewood, Washington. It awarded 70 undergraduate certificates in 2020-2021.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate students at CPTC are $5,740 a year. By the time they get their undergraduate certificate, students from this school have racked up an average of $17,786 in student loans.

You may have the opportunity to take online classes at CPTC. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 35% of undergraduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.

CPTC did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Nursing Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Washington list.

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#2

Grays Harbor College

Aberdeen, Washington
1 Total Awards
$10,040 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Grays Harbor College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Nursing Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Washington list. Located in Aberdeen, Washington, the small public school handed out 1 undergraduate certificate awards in 2020-2021.

GHC undergraduate students pay an average of $10,040 in tuition and fees each year.

One thing to take note of is that GHC does offer online classes in some areas. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 82% of undergraduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.

GHC not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #2 on our Best Nursing Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Washington list.

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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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