2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Nurse Midwife/Nursing Midwifery in the Southeast Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Nursing Midwifery Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Nurse Midwife/Nursing Midwifery is the 598th most popular major in the country with 509 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southeast region, there were 346 nurse midwife/nursing midwifery graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 314 nurse midwife/nursing midwifery graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,950 and $43,286 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Nursing Midwifery Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in nurse midwife/nursing midwifery. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent nurse midwife/nursing midwifery programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the nurse midwife/nursing midwifery program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

One Size Does Not Fit All

The nursing midwifery school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Nursing Midwifery Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region”.

To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.

Best Value Nursing Midwifery Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree nursing midwifery students.

Top 3 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Nurse Midwife/Nursing Midwifery in the Southeast Region

#1

Frontier Nursing University

Hyden, Kentucky

#3 in overall quality

$20,292 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Frontier Nursing University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Nursing Midwifery Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region list. Hyden, Kentucky is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s nursing midwifery degrees to 279 students in 2019-2020.

Frontier Nursing University also took the #3 spot in our “Best Nurse Midwife/Nursing Midwifery Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Frontier Nursing University are $20,292, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Nurse Midwife/Nursing Midwifery at Frontier Nursing University

#2

Emory University

Atlanta, Georgia

#2 in overall quality

$44,676 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Nursing Midwifery Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Emory University landed the #2 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Atlanta, Georgia, and it awarded 14 masters’s nursing midwifery degrees in 2019-2020.

Emory also made our “Best Nurse Midwife/Nursing Midwifery Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #2. Average graduate tuition and fees at Emory are $44,676, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Nurse Midwife/Nursing Midwifery at Emory

#3

Vanderbilt University

Nashville, Tennessee

#1 in overall quality

$50,624 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Vanderbilt University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Nursing Midwifery Schools for a Master’s in the Southeast Region. Located in Nashville, Tennessee, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 21 degrees to qualified masters’s nursing midwifery students in 2019-2020.

Vanderbilt did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Nurse Midwife/Nursing Midwifery Master’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Vanderbilt University are $50,624, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Nurse Midwife/Nursing Midwifery

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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