2022 Best Value Critical Care Nursing Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region
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Critical Care Nursing is the 565th most popular major in the country with 583 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 56 critical care nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 34 critical care nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,039 and $42,488 respectively.
For this year’s “Best Value Critical Care Nursing Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 3 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.
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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Best Value Critical Care Nursing Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree critical care nursing students.
Top 3 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Critical Care Nursing in the Great Lakes Region
Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Critical Care Nursing Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Loyola University Chicago landed the #1 spot on the list. Loyola Chicago is a fairly large school located in Chicago, Illinois that handed out 19 masters’s critical care nursing degrees in 2019-2020.
Loyola Chicago also took the #2 spot in our “Best Critical Care Nursing Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Loyola University Chicago are $19,154, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.
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Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Critical Care Nursing Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Ursuline College landed the #2 spot on the list. Ursuline College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Pepper Pike, Ohio. The school has a small population, and it awarded 3 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.
In addition to being on our great lakes region master’s degree critical care nursing students list, Ursuline College has also earned the #3 rank in our “Best Critical Care Nursing Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Ursuline College are $22,192.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Case Western Reserve University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Critical Care Nursing Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region. This fairly large school is located in Cleveland, Ohio, and it awarded 11 masters’s critical care nursing degrees in 2019-2020.
Case Western also made our “Best Critical Care Nursing Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at Case Western Reserve University are $47,958, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.
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- 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%.
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- *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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