2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse Training in the Southeast Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse Training Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 45,594 people earned their degree in licensed practical/vocational nurse training, making the major the 335th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 15,225 licensed practical/vocational nurse training graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 68 licensed practical/vocational nurse training graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,631 and $18,547 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse Training Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in licensed practical/vocational nurse training. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality licensed practical/vocational nurse training programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the licensed practical/vocational nurse training program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse Training Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse Training Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse Training in the Southeast Region

#1

Arkansas Tech University

Russellville, Arkansas

#1 in overall quality

$10,772 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Arkansas Tech University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse Training Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region list. ATU is a fairly large public school situated in Russellville, Arkansas. It awarded 36 associates’s licensed practical/vocational nurse training degrees in 2019-2020.

ATU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse Training Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $10,772 for Southeast Region Associate Degree Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse Training students per year to attend ATU.

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#2

ATA College

Louisville, Kentucky

#2 in overall quality

$22,452 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend ATA College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse Training Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region. Located in Louisville, Kentucky, this small private for-profit school awarded 32 diplomas to qualified associates’s licensed practical/vocational nurse training students in 2019-2020.

ATA College also made our “Best Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse Training Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #2. The yearly cost to attend ATA College is $22,452 for Southeast Region Associate Degree Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse Training students.

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• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse Training

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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