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

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Plains States Region” ranking.

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

Across the Plains States region, there were 108 school nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 10 school nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $72,701 and $106,703 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent school 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 school nursing program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value School Nursing Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value School Nursing Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value School Nursing Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region.

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

#1

University of Iowa

Iowa City, Iowa

#1 in overall quality

$27,613 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Iowa. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value School Nursing Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region list. Iowa is located in Iowa City, Iowa and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 10 doctorate’s school nursing degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Iowa, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best School Nursing Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Iowa are $27,613, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about School Nursing at Iowa

• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for School Nursing

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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