2022 Best Value Nursing Practice Schools for an Associate

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 Nursing Practice Schools for an Associate” ranking as one item you can use to help make this 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.

For this year’s “Best Value Nursing Practice Schools for an Associate” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in nursing practice. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent nursing practice 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 nursing practice program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Nursing Practice Schools for an Associate” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Nursing Practice Schools for an Associate

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Nursing Practice Schools for an Associate.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Nursing Practice

#1

Columbia College

Columbia, Missouri

#1 in overall quality

$26,730 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Columbia College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Nursing Practice Schools for an Associate. Located in Columbia, Missouri, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 59 diplomas to qualified associates’s nursing practice students in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our associate degree nursing practice students list, Columbia College Missouri has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Nursing Practice Associate Degree Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Columbia College is $26,730 for Associate Degree Nursing Practice students.

Read more about Nursing Practice at Columbia College Missouri

#2

Las Vegas College

Henderson, Nevada

#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Las Vegas College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Nursing Practice Schools for an Associate. This small school is located in Henderson, Nevada, and it awarded 20 associates’s nursing practice degrees in 2019-2020.

Las Vegas College also made our “Best Nursing Practice Associate Degree Schools” list, coming in at #2.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 95%.

Read full report on Nursing Practice at Las Vegas College

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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