2022 Best Value Registered Nursing Schools for a Doctorate in Alabama

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In 2019-2020, 259,493 registered nursing students received their degree, making the major the 3rd most popular in the country.

Across Alabama, there were 6,358 registered nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 166 registered nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $81,644 and $113,063 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great registered 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 registered nursing program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Registered Nursing Schools for a Doctorate in Alabama

The colleges and universities below are the best for alabama doctor’s degree registered nursing students.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Registered Nursing in Alabama

#1

University of South Alabama

Mobile, Alabama

#1 in overall quality

$16,112 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of South Alabama. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Registered Nursing Schools for a Doctorate in Alabama list. University of South Alabama is a fairly large public school situated in Mobile, Alabama. It awarded 166 doctorate’s registered nursing degrees in 2019-2020.

USA did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Registered Nursing Doctor’s Degree Schools in Alabama” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of South Alabama are $16,112.

Read full report on Registered Nursing at University of South Alabama

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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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