2023 Best Value Perioperative/Operating Room and Surgical Nursing Schools
2
Ranked Colleges
331
Degrees Awarded
$17,600
Avg Net Price*
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Perioperative/Operating Room and Surgical Nurse/Nursing is the 754th most popular major in the country with 331 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
This year’s “Best Value Perioperative/Operating Room and Surgical Nursing Schools” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in perioperative/operating room and surgical nurse/nursing. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality perioperative/operating room and surgical nurse/nursing programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the perioperative/operating room and surgical nurse/nursing 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 Perioperative/Operating Room and Surgical Nursing Schools
The colleges and universities below are the best for perioperative/operating room and surgical nursing students.
Top 2 Best Value Colleges for Perioperative/Operating Room and Surgical Nurse/Nursing
Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Perioperative/Operating Room and Surgical Nursing Schools that were part of this year’s ranking, Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico - Ponce landed the #1 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Ponce, , and it awarded 8 ’s perioperative/operating room and surgical nursing degrees in 2020-2021.
Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico - Ponce not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Perioperative/Operating Room and Surgical Nurse/Nursing Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico - Ponce is $10,167 for Perioperative/Operating Room and Surgical Nursing students.
Read more about Perioperative/Operating Room and Surgical Nurse/Nursing at Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico - Ponce
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Pennsylvania. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Perioperative/Operating Room and Surgical Nursing Schools list. UPenn is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It awarded 219 ’s perioperative/operating room and surgical nursing degrees in 2020-2021.
UPenn also took the #1 spot in our “Best Perioperative/Operating Room and Surgical Nurse/Nursing Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for UPenn is $25,046 for perioperative/operating room and surgical nursing students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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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
- *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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