2023 Best Value Nursing Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Maine

Identifying High-Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

It's not easy to decide which nursing program to enroll in when you have so many options available. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school or bootcamp that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

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 Maine ranking.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

Top Value Nursing Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Maine

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

#1

Northern Maine Community College

Presque Isle, Maine

24 Total Awards

#1 in Quality in Maine

$6,710 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found Northern Maine Community College to be the best value school for nursing students who want to pursue a undergraduate certificate in Maine. This very small public school is located in Presque Isle, Maine, and it awarded 24 undergraduate certificates in 2020-2021.

Northern Maine Community College undergraduate students pay an average of $6,710 in tuition and fees each year. Undergraduate Certificate recipients from this school accumulate an average of $12,410 in student debt by the time they complete their degree.

Online courses are available at Northern Maine Community College, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 68% of undergraduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.

Northern Maine Community College did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Nursing Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Maine list.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*These averages are for the top 1 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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