2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Clinical Nurse Leader (Income $30-$48k)

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Clinical Nurse Leader Schools for a Doctorate For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 415 people earned their degree in clinical nurse leader, making the major the 566th most popular in the United States.

At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 clinical nurse leader graduates with average earnings and debt of $72,680 and $116,043 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent clinical nurse leader 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 clinical nurse leader program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Clinical Nurse Leader Schools for a Doctorate For Those Making $30-$48k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Clinical Nurse Leader Schools for a Doctorate For Those Making $30-$48k

The colleges and universities below are the best for doctor’s degree clinical nurse leader students whose families make $30-$48k.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Clinical Nurse Leader (Income $30-$48k)

#1

University of Rochester

Rochester, New York

#1 in overall quality

$50,505 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Rochester. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Clinical Nurse Leader Schools for a Doctorate For Those Making $30-$48k list. Located in Rochester, New York, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 2 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s clinical nurse leader students in 2019-2020.

University of Rochester not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Clinical Nurse Leader Doctor’s Degree Schools” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Rochester are $50,505.

Read full report on Clinical Nurse Leader at University of Rochester

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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