2022 Best Value Critical Care Nursing Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $75-$110k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Critical Care Nursing Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Critical Care Nursing is the 565th most popular major in the country with 583 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Plains States region, there were 134 critical care nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 85 critical care nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,438 and $39,783 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Critical Care Nursing Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in critical care nursing. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent critical care nursing programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the critical care nursing 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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Best Value Critical Care Nursing Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $75-$110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region master’s degree critical care nursing students whose families make $75-$110k.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Critical Care Nursing (Income $75-$110k) in the Plains States Region

#1

Winona State University

Winona, Minnesota

#2 in overall quality

$12,378 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Winona State University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Critical Care Nursing Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $75-$110k. Winona, Minnesota is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s critical care nursing degrees to 7 students in 2019-2020.

Winona State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Critical Care Nursing Master’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Winona State University are $12,378, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Critical Care Nursing at Winona State

#2

Maryville University of Saint Louis

Saint Louis, Missouri

#1 in overall quality

$15,696 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Critical Care Nursing Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Maryville University of Saint Louis landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Saint Louis, Missouri, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 77 diplomas to qualified masters’s critical care nursing students in 2019-2020.

Maryville U also took the #1 spot in our “Best Critical Care Nursing Master’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Maryville U are $15,696, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Critical Care Nursing at Maryville University of Saint Louis

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Critical Care Nursing (Income $75-$110k)

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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