2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Nursing Practice in the Plains States Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Nursing Practice Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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

Across the Plains States region, there were 1,339 nursing practice graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 59 nursing practice graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,069 and $19,434 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great nursing practice programs and 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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

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Best Value Nursing Practice Schools for an Associate in the Plains States Region

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

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Nursing Practice in the Plains States Region

#1

Columbia College

Columbia, Missouri

#1 in overall quality

$26,730 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 in the Plains States Region list. Columbia, Missouri is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out associates’s nursing practice degrees to 59 students in 2019-2020.

Columbia College Missouri not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Nursing Practice Associate Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Columbia College is $26,730 for Plains States Region Associate Degree Nursing Practice students.

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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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