2022 Best Value Nursing Science Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region

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 Science Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Nursing Science is the 150th most popular major in the country with 4,637 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 101 nursing science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 12 nursing science graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,078 and $37,227 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality nursing science programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the nursing science program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Nursing Science Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Nursing Science Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Nursing Science in the Southwest Region

#1

Oklahoma Wesleyan University

Bartlesville, Oklahoma

#1 in overall quality

$10,645 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Oklahoma Wesleyan University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Nursing Science Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region. Oklahoma Wesleyan University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. The school has a small population, and it awarded 12 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

OKWU or OWU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Nursing Science Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at OKWU or OWU are $10,645, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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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