2022 Best Value Critical Care Nursing Schools for a Master’s in Pennsylvania

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Critical Care Nursing Schools for a Master’s in Pennsylvania” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 583 people earned their degree in critical care nursing, making the major the 565th most popular in the United States.

Across Pennsylvania, there were 7 critical care nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 7 critical care nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great critical care nursing programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the critical care nursing program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Critical Care Nursing Schools for a Master’s in Pennsylvania

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Critical Care Nursing Schools for a Master’s in Pennsylvania.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Critical Care Nursing in Pennsylvania

#1

DeSales University

Center Valley, Pennsylvania

#1 in overall quality

$20,520 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend DeSales University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Critical Care Nursing Schools for a Master’s in Pennsylvania list. DeSales is located in Center Valley, Pennsylvania and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 7 masters’s critical care nursing degrees to qualified students.

DeSales did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Critical Care Nursing Master’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at DeSales University are $20,520, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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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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