2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Clinical Nurse Leader in California (With Aid)

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Clinical Nurse Leader Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Getting Aid” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Clinical Nurse Leader is the 566th most popular major in the country with 415 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across California, there were 93 clinical nurse leader graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 93 clinical nurse leader graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,281 and $50,119 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Clinical Nurse Leader Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in clinical nurse leader. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality clinical nurse leader programs that also have a lower cost than 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Clinical Nurse Leader Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for california master’s degree clinical nurse leader students with aid.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Clinical Nurse Leader in California (With Aid)

#1

Charles R Drew University of Medicine and Science

Los Angeles, California

#2 in overall quality

$27,376 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Charles R Drew University of Medicine and Science. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Clinical Nurse Leader Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Getting Aid list. CDU is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Los Angeles, California. It awarded 38 masters’s clinical nurse leader degrees in 2019-2020.

CDU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Clinical Nurse Leader Master’s Degree Schools in California” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at CDU are $27,376, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Clinical Nurse Leader at CDU

#2

University of San Diego

San Diego, California

#1 in overall quality

$28,410 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of San Diego. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Clinical Nurse Leader Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Getting Aid list. USD is a medium-sized school located in San Diego, California that handed out 55 masters’s clinical nurse leader degrees in 2019-2020.

USD did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Clinical Nurse Leader Master’s Degree Schools in California” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of San Diego are $28,410, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full University of San Diego Clinical Nurse Leader 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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