2022 Best Value Practical Nursing Schools for a Bachelor’s

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Practical Nursing Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 86,912 people earned their degree in practical nursing and nursing assistants, making the major the 185th most popular in the United States. In 2017-2018, practical nursing and nursing assistants graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $33,439 and had an average of $12,589 in loans still to pay off.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 298 practical nursing and nursing assistants graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Practical Nursing Schools for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in practical nursing and nursing assistants. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great practical nursing and nursing assistants 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 practical nursing and nursing assistants 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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Best Value Practical Nursing Schools for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Practical Nursing Schools for a Bachelor’s.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants

#1

Universidad del Turabo

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#1 in overall quality

$6,588 Average Net Price

$27,729 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Universidad del Turabo. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Practical Nursing Schools for a Bachelor’s list. Universidad del Turabo is a fairly large school located in Gurabo, that handed out 252 bachelors’s practical nursing degrees in 2019-2020.

Universidad del Turabo not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The estimated yearly cost for Universidad del Turabo is $6,588 for bachelor’s degree practical nursing students.

Read full report on Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants at Universidad del Turabo

#2

Caribbean University - Bayamon

Bayamon, <nil>

#2 in overall quality

$3,356 Average Net Price

$15,384 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Caribbean University - Bayamon. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Practical Nursing Schools for a Bachelor’s list. Caribbean University - Bayamon is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Bayamon, . It awarded 18 bachelors’s practical nursing degrees in 2019-2020.

Caribbean University - Bayamon also made our “Best Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #2. The yearly cost to attend Caribbean University - Bayamon is $3,356 for bachelor’s degree practical nursing students.

Full Caribbean University - Bayamon Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants Report

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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