2022 Best Value Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region” ranking.

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 master’s degree level specifically, there were 14 psychiatric/mental health nurse/nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,078 and $37,227 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great psychiatric/mental health nurse/nursing programs and cost less that 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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Best Value Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region

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

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

#1

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

Lubbock, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$19,056 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center landed the #1 spot on the list. Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center is a medium-sized public school situated in Lubbock, Texas. It awarded 14 masters’s psychiatric/mental health nursing degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at TTUHSC, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at TTUHSC are $19,056, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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

• Best Value Master’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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