2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Clinical Nurse Specialist in California (With Aid)

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Clinical Nurse Specialist is the 626th most popular major in the country with 384 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across California, there were 173 clinical nurse specialist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 170 clinical nurse specialist graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,281 and $50,119 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great clinical nurse specialist 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 specialist program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Clinical Nurse Specialist Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Clinical Nurse Specialist Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Clinical Nurse Specialist in California (With Aid)

#1

University of San Francisco

San Francisco, California

#1 in overall quality

$26,710 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Clinical Nurse Specialist Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of San Francisco landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in San Francisco, California, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 170 degrees to qualified masters’s clinical nurse specialist students in 2019-2020.

USFCA also took the #1 spot in our “Best Clinical Nurse Specialist Master’s Degree Schools in California” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at USFCA are $26,710, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full USFCA Clinical Nurse Specialist Report

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• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Clinical Nurse Specialist (With Aid)

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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