2022 Best Value School Nursing Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value School Nursing Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region” ranking.

School Nursing is the 591st most popular major in the country with 524 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southeast region, there were 179 school nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 school nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,978 and $116,300 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great school nursing programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the school 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 School Nursing Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value School Nursing Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region doctor’s degree school nursing students.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for School Nursing in the Southeast Region

#1

Duke University

Durham, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$59,140 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Duke University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value School Nursing Schools for a Doctorate in the Southeast Region list. Durham, North Carolina is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s school nursing degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

Duke did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best School Nursing Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Duke are $59,140.

Read more about School Nursing at Duke

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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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