2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing in the Southwest Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing is the 527th most popular major in the country with 1,812 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

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.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent psychiatric/mental health nurse/nursing programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the psychiatric/mental health 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.

One Size Does Not Fit All

The psychiatric/mental health nursing school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region”.

To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.

Best Value Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region doctor’s degree psychiatric/mental health nursing students.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing in the Southwest Region

#1

University of the Incarnate Word

San Antonio, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$19,242 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of the Incarnate Word. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region list. This medium-sized school is located in San Antonio, Texas, and it awarded 4 doctorate’s psychiatric/mental health nursing degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southwest region doctor’s degree psychiatric/mental health nursing students list, UIW has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at UIW are $19,242, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing at UIW

• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing

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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