2022 Best Value Colleges for Adult Health Nurse/Nursing in Tennessee (With Aid)

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Adult Health Nursing Schools in Tennessee For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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

Across Tennessee, there were 27 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 Tennessee For Those Getting Aid” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in adult health nurse/nursing. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality adult health nurse/nursing programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the adult health nurse/nursing program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 Adult Health Nursing Schools in Tennessee For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Adult Health Nursing Schools in Tennessee For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Adult Health Nursing Schools in Tennessee For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Colleges for Adult Health Nurse/Nursing in Tennessee (With Aid)

#1

Vanderbilt University

Nashville, Tennessee

#1 in overall quality

$19,432 Average Net Price

$67,244 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Vanderbilt University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Adult Health Nursing Schools in Tennessee For Those Getting Aid list. Vanderbilt University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Nashville, Tennessee. It awarded 24 ’s adult health nursing degrees in 2019-2020.

Vanderbilt also took the #1 spot in our “Best Adult Health Nurse/Nursing Schools in Tennessee” ranking. It costs about $19,432 for tennessee adult health nursing students with aid per year to attend Vanderbilt.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The student loan default rate at the school is 1.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read full report on Adult Health Nurse/Nursing at Vanderbilt

#2

Southern Adventist University

Collegedale, Tennessee

#2 in overall quality

$22,661 Average Net Price

$62,867 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Adult Health Nursing Schools in Tennessee For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Adventist University landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in Collegedale, Tennessee, and it awarded 3 ’s adult health nursing degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Southern Adventist, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Adult Health Nurse/Nursing Schools in Tennessee” ranking. It costs about $22,661 for Tennessee Adult Health Nursing students with aid per year to attend Southern Adventist University.

Full Southern Adventist University Adult Health Nurse/Nursing Report

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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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