2022 Best Value Colleges for Adult Health Nurse/Nursing (Income $0-$30k) in the Southwest Region

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 Adult Health Nursing Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Adult Health Nurse/Nursing is the 308th most popular major in the country with 1,952 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 149 adult health nurse/nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Adult Health Nursing Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in adult health nurse/nursing. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent adult health nurse/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 adult health nurse/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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Best Value Adult Health Nursing Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Adult Health Nursing Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 2 Best Value Colleges for Adult Health Nurse/Nursing (Income $0-$30k) in the Southwest Region

#1

Oklahoma City University

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

#2 in overall quality

$17,214 Average Net Price

$44,986 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Oklahoma City University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Adult Health Nursing Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k. Oklahoma City University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It awarded 139 ’s adult health nursing degrees in 2019-2020.

OCU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Adult Health Nurse/Nursing Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Oklahoma City University is $17,214 for southwest region adult health nursing students whose families make $0-$30k.

The low student loan default rate of 3.8% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Full Oklahoma City University Adult Health Nurse/Nursing Report

#2

University of Tulsa

Tulsa, Oklahoma

#1 in overall quality

$14,391 Average Net Price

$62,120 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Tulsa. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Adult Health Nursing Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. University of Tulsa is a small school located in Tulsa, Oklahoma that handed out 10 ’s adult health nursing degrees in 2019-2020.

University of Tulsa also took the #1 spot in our “Best Adult Health Nurse/Nursing Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for University of Tulsa is $14,391 for southwest region adult health nursing students whose families make $0-$30k.

The student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Adult Health Nurse/Nursing at University of Tulsa

• Best Value Colleges for Adult Health Nurse/Nursing (Income $0-$30k)

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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