2022 Best Value Nursing Schools for an Associate in Delaware

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Delaware” 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 Delaware, there were 1,218 nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $70,300 and $21,824 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 281 nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,207 and $14,625 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent 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 nursing program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Nursing Schools for an Associate in Delaware

The colleges and universities below are the best for delaware associate degree nursing students.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Nursing in Delaware

#1

Delaware Technical Community College - Terry

Dover, Delaware

#1 in overall quality

$8,824 Average Net Price

$60,340 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Nursing Schools for an Associate in Delaware that were part of this year’s ranking, Delaware Technical Community College - Terry landed the #1 spot on the list. Delaware Tech is located in Dover, Delaware and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 281 associates’s nursing degrees to qualified students.

Delaware Tech did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Nursing Associate Degree Schools in Delaware” list. The yearly cost to attend Delaware Tech is $8,824 for Delaware Associate Degree Nursing students.

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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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