2022 Best Value Clinical Nurse Leader Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region

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

Across the Southwest region, there were 13 clinical nurse leader graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 11 clinical nurse leader graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,078 and $37,227 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.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the clinical nurse leader program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Clinical Nurse Leader Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region

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

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Clinical Nurse Leader in the Southwest Region

#1

The University of Texas Medical Branch

Galveston, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$17,500 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Clinical Nurse Leader Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas Medical Branch landed the #1 spot on the list. Galveston, Texas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s clinical nurse leader degrees to 6 students in 2019-2020.

UTMB Galveston not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Clinical Nurse Leader Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at The University of Texas Medical Branch are $17,500, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Clinical Nurse Leader at UTMB Galveston

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Clinical Nurse Leader

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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