2022 Best Value Adult Health Nursing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Adult Health Nursing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 1,952 people earned their degree in adult health nurse/nursing, making the major the 308th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 149 adult health nurse/nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 135 adult health nurse/nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent adult health nurse/nursing programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the adult health nurse/nursing program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Adult Health Nursing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. If you’re torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.

Best Value Adult Health Nursing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree adult health nursing students.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Adult Health Nurse/Nursing in the Southwest Region

#1

Oklahoma City University

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

#1 in overall quality

$22,306 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oklahoma City University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Adult Health Nursing Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. OCU is a small school located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma that handed out 135 bachelors’s adult health nursing degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at OCU, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Adult Health Nurse/Nursing Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Oklahoma City University is $22,306 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Adult Health Nursing students.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read full report on Adult Health Nurse/Nursing at OCU

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Notes and References

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%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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