2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Critical Care Nursing in the Southwest Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Critical Care Nursing Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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

Across the Southwest region, there were 108 critical care nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 92 critical care nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,078 and $37,227 respectively.

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.

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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

More Ways to Rank Critical Care Nursing Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Critical Care Nursing Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. Test it out by comparing your favorite schools against others you are considering, or bookmark the tool so you can experiment with it later.

Best Value Critical Care Nursing Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree critical care nursing students.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Critical Care Nursing in the Southwest Region

#1

Grand Canyon University

Phoenix, Arizona

#1 in overall quality

$11,436 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Grand Canyon University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Critical Care Nursing Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region list. Grand Canyon University is located in Phoenix, Arizona and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 92 masters’s critical care nursing degrees to qualified students.

Grand Canyon University also made our “Best Critical Care Nursing Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #1. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Grand Canyon University are $11,436.

Read full report on Critical Care Nursing at Grand Canyon University

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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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