2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Nursing Practice (Income $75-$110k)

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Nursing Practice Schools for an Associate For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Nursing Practice is the 125th most popular major in the country with 7,550 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 79 nursing practice graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,082 and $17,678 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Nursing Practice Schools for an Associate For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in nursing practice. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality nursing practice programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

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

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Best Value Nursing Practice Schools for an Associate For Those Making $75-$110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for associate degree nursing practice students whose families make $75-$110k.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Nursing Practice (Income $75-$110k)

#1

Columbia College

Columbia, Missouri

#1 in overall quality

$26,327 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Columbia College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Nursing Practice Schools for an Associate For Those Making $75-$110k list. Columbia College is a medium-sized school located in Columbia, Missouri that handed out 59 associates’s nursing practice degrees in 2019-2020.

Columbia College Missouri also took the #1 spot in our “Best Nursing Practice Associate Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Columbia College Missouri is $26,327 for Associate Degree Nursing Practice students whose families make $75-$110k.

Full Columbia College Nursing Practice Report

#2

Las Vegas College

Henderson, Nevada

#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Las Vegas College. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Nursing Practice Schools for an Associate For Those Making $75-$110k list. Las Vegas College is a private for-profit institution located in Henderson, Nevada. The school has a small population, and it awarded 20 associates’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Las Vegas College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Nursing Practice Associate Degree Schools” list.

With a freshman retention rate of 95%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Full Las Vegas College Nursing Practice Report

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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