2022 Best Value Nursing Practice Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Nursing Practice Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania” 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.

Across Pennsylvania, there were 277 nursing practice graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 24 nursing practice graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Nursing Practice Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in nursing practice. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great nursing practice programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the nursing practice program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Nursing Practice Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Nursing Practice Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Nursing Practice in Pennsylvania

#1

Eastern University

Saint Davids, Pennsylvania

#2 in overall quality

$22,284 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Eastern University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Nursing Practice Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania. Located in Saint Davids, Pennsylvania, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 8 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s nursing practice students in 2019-2020.

EU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Nursing Practice Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list. It costs about $22,284 for pennsylvania bachelor’s degree nursing practice students per year to attend Eastern University.

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#2

Misericordia University

Dallas, Pennsylvania

#1 in overall quality

$25,510 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Misericordia University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Nursing Practice Schools for a Bachelor’s in Pennsylvania list. Misericordia University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Dallas, Pennsylvania. It awarded 16 bachelors’s nursing practice degrees in 2019-2020.

Misericordia University also made our “Best Nursing Practice Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” list, coming in at #1. The yearly cost to attend Misericordia University is $25,510 for Pennsylvania Bachelor’s Degree Nursing Practice students.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

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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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