2022 Best Value Nursing Schools for an Associate in District of Columbia For Those Making $0-$30k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Nursing Schools for an Associate in District of Columbia For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Nursing is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 3rd of all the majors we analyze. In 2019-2020, 313,362 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2017-2018, nursing graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $67,065 and had an average of $26,282 in loans still to pay off.

Across District of Columbia, there were 1,128 nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $80,510 and $39,960 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 24 nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,233 and $27,625 respectively.

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

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the nursing program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. 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 Nursing Schools for an Associate in District of Columbia For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Nursing Schools for an Associate in District of Columbia For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for district of columbia associate degree nursing students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Nursing (Income $0-$30k) in District of Columbia

#1

University of the District of Columbia

Washington, District of Columbia

#1 in overall quality

$14,743 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Nursing Schools for an Associate in District of Columbia For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of the District of Columbia landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Washington, District of Columbia, and it awarded 24 associates’s nursing degrees in 2019-2020.

University of the District of Columbia also took the #1 spot in our “Best Nursing Associate Degree Schools in District of Columbia” ranking. The yearly cost to attend University of the District of Columbia is $14,743 for District of Columbia Associate Degree Nursing students whose families make $0-$30k.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read more about Nursing at University of the District of Columbia

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• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Nursing (Income $0-$30k)

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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