2022 Best Value Critical Care Nursing Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Critical Care Nursing Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this 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.

This year’s “Best Value Critical Care Nursing Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered 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.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the critical care nursing program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 Critical Care Nursing Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. If you’re torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.

Best Value Critical Care Nursing Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region master’s degree critical care nursing students with aid.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Critical Care Nursing in the Plains States Region (With Aid)

#1

Winona State University

Winona, Minnesota

#2 in overall quality

$12,378 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Winona State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Critical Care Nursing Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid list. Located in Winona, Minnesota, this medium-sized public school awarded 7 diplomas to qualified masters’s critical care nursing students in 2019-2020.

Winona State also took the #2 spot in our “Best Critical Care Nursing Master’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Winona State University are $12,378, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on 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

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Maryville University of Saint Louis. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Critical Care Nursing Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid. Saint Louis, Missouri is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s critical care nursing degrees to 77 students in 2019-2020.

Maryville U did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Critical Care Nursing Master’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Maryville University of Saint Louis are $15,696, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Critical Care Nursing at Maryville U

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Critical Care Nursing (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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