2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Nursing Practice in California

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 a Master’s in California” 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.

Across California, there were 166 nursing practice graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 14 nursing practice graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,281 and $50,119 respectively.

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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 a Master’s in California” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Nursing Practice Schools for a Master’s in California

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

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Nursing Practice in California

#1

University of San Diego

San Diego, California

#1 in overall quality

$28,410 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of San Diego. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Nursing Practice Schools for a Master’s in California list. This medium-sized school is located in San Diego, California, and it awarded 14 masters’s nursing practice degrees in 2019-2020.

USD not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Nursing Practice Master’s Degree Schools in California” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of San Diego are $28,410, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Nursing Practice at USD

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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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