2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Clinical Nurse Leader

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Clinical Nurse Leader Schools for a Doctorate” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Clinical Nurse Leader is the 566th most popular major in the country with 415 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

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.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great clinical nurse leader programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the clinical nurse leader program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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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” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Clinical Nurse Leader Schools for a Doctorate

The colleges and universities below are the best for doctor’s degree clinical nurse leader students.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Clinical Nurse Leader

#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 list. Located in Rochester, New York, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 2 degrees to qualified doctorate’s clinical nurse leader students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at University of Rochester, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Clinical Nurse Leader Doctor’s Degree Schools” ranking. 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 more about 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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