2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Nursing in Vermont

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Nursing Schools for an Associate in Vermont” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 313,362 nursing students received their degree, making the major the 3rd most popular in the country. 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 Vermont, there were 396 nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,450 and $33,238 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 148 nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 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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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 Vermont” 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 Vermont

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Nursing Schools for an Associate in Vermont.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Nursing in Vermont

#1

Vermont Technical College

Randolph, Vermont

#1 in overall quality

$20,684 Average Net Price

$58,057 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Nursing Schools for an Associate in Vermont that were part of this year’s ranking, Vermont Technical College landed the #1 spot on the list. Vermont Technical College is a small public school situated in Randolph, Vermont. It awarded 148 associates’s nursing degrees in 2019-2020.

Vermont Tech did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Nursing Associate Degree Schools in Vermont” list. It costs about $20,684 for Vermont Associate Degree Nursing students per year to attend Vermont Technical College.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 9 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 Vermont Technical College

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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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