2022 Best Value Clinical Nurse Leader Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Clinical Nurse Leader Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 415 people earned their degree in clinical nurse leader, making the major the 566th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 13 clinical nurse leader graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great clinical nurse leader 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 clinical nurse leader program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Clinical Nurse Leader Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region clinical nurse leader students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Colleges for Clinical Nurse Leader (Income $0-$30k) in the Southwest Region

#1

Texas Christian University

Fort Worth, Texas

#2 in overall quality

$21,286 Average Net Price

$52,857 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Christian University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Clinical Nurse Leader Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. Fort Worth, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s clinical nurse leader degrees to 7 students in 2019-2020.

TCU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Clinical Nurse Leader Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend TCU is $21,286 for southwest region clinical nurse leader students whose families make $0-$30k.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%.

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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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