2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Family Practice Nurse/Nursing in the Southwest Region

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 Family Practice Nursing Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Family Practice Nurse/Nursing is the 51st most popular major in the country with 16,802 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 3,180 family practice nurse/nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 33 family practice nurse/nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,970 and $95,025 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Family Practice Nursing Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in family practice nurse/nursing. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent family practice nurse/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 family practice nurse/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 Family Practice Nursing Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region doctor’s degree family practice nursing students.

Top 3 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Family Practice Nurse/Nursing in the Southwest Region

#1

University of Tulsa

Tulsa, Oklahoma

#1 in overall quality

$24,080 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Tulsa. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Family Practice Nursing Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region list. University of Tulsa is a small school located in Tulsa, Oklahoma that handed out 12 doctorate’s family practice nursing degrees in 2019-2020.

University of Tulsa not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Family Practice Nurse/Nursing Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Tulsa are $24,080, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full University of Tulsa Family Practice Nurse/Nursing Report

#2

University of the Incarnate Word

San Antonio, Texas

#2 in overall quality

$19,242 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Family Practice Nursing Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of the Incarnate Word landed the #2 spot on the list. San Antonio, Texas is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s family practice nursing degrees to 18 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UIW, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Family Practice Nurse/Nursing Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of the Incarnate Word are $19,242, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Family Practice Nurse/Nursing at University of the Incarnate Word

#3

Texas Christian University

Fort Worth, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$32,268 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Christian University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Family Practice Nursing Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region list. This fairly large school is located in Fort Worth, Texas, and it awarded 3 doctorate’s family practice nursing degrees in 2019-2020.

TCU also took the #1 spot in our “Best Family Practice Nurse/Nursing Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Texas Christian University are $32,268.

Read full report on Family Practice Nurse/Nursing at TCU

• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Family Practice Nurse/Nursing

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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