2022 Best Value Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse Training Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Southwest 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 Southwest region, there were 4,755 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 $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great licensed practical/vocational nurse training 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 licensed practical/vocational nurse training program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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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 Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse Training Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree licensed practical/vocational nurse training students.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse Training in the Southwest Region

#1

Del Mar College

Corpus Christi, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$5,738 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse Training Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Del Mar College landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Corpus Christi, Texas, this fairly large public school handed out 68 diplomas to qualified associates’s licensed practical/vocational nurse training students in 2019-2020.

DMC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse Training Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $5,738 for southwest region associate degree licensed practical/vocational nurse training students per year to attend Del Mar College.

Read more about Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse Training at Del Mar College

• 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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