2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing (Income $75-$110k) in the Southwest Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 1,812 people earned their degree in psychiatric/mental health nurse/nursing, making the major the 527th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 30 psychiatric/mental health nurse/nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 4 psychiatric/mental health nurse/nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,970 and $95,025 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality psychiatric/mental health nurse/nursing 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 psychiatric/mental health nurse/nursing program at the school. 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 Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing (Income $75-$110k) in the Southwest Region

#1

University of the Incarnate Word

San Antonio, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$19,242 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of the Incarnate Word landed the #1 spot on the list. UIW is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in San Antonio, Texas. It awarded 4 doctorate’s psychiatric/mental health nursing degrees in 2019-2020.

UIW also took the #1 spot in our “Best Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of the Incarnate Word are $19,242, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing at University of the Incarnate Word

• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing (Income $75-$110k)

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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