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2022 Best Value Clinical Nurse Specialist Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k

2 Ranked Colleges
25 Degrees Awarded
$21,600 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Clinical Nurse Specialist Schools for a Master's in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Clinical Nurse Specialist Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Clinical Nurse Specialist is the 626th most popular major in the country with 384 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 48 clinical nurse specialist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 25 clinical nurse specialist graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,078 and $37,227 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Clinical Nurse Specialist Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in clinical nurse specialist. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great clinical nurse specialist 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 specialist program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Clinical Nurse Specialist Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Clinical Nurse Specialist Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree clinical nurse specialist students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Clinical Nurse Specialist (Income $0-$30k) in the Southwest Region

#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas at Austin. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Clinical Nurse Specialist Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. This large school is located in Austin, Texas, and it awarded 17 masters’s clinical nurse specialist degrees in 2019-2020.

UT Austin also took the #1 spot in our “Best Clinical Nurse Specialist Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at The University of Texas at Austin are $22,886.

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Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Clinical Nurse Specialist Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of the Incarnate Word landed the #2 spot on the list. UIW is located in San Antonio, Texas and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 3 masters’s clinical nurse specialist degrees to qualified students.

In addition to being on our southwest region master’s degree clinical nurse specialist students whose families make $0-$30k list, UIW has also earned the #0 rank in our “Best Clinical Nurse Specialist Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at UIW are $19,242, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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%.

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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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