2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Critical Care Nursing (Income $0-$30k) in Tennessee

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Critical Care Nursing Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 583 people earned their degree in critical care nursing, making the major the 565th most popular in the United States.

Across Tennessee, there were 63 critical care nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 55 critical care nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Critical Care Nursing Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in critical care nursing. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent critical care nursing programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the critical care 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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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Critical Care Nursing Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee 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 Critical Care Nursing Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for tennessee master’s degree critical care nursing students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Critical Care Nursing (Income $0-$30k) in Tennessee

#1

Vanderbilt University

Nashville, Tennessee

#1 in overall quality

$50,624 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Vanderbilt University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Critical Care Nursing Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee For Those Making $0-$30k. Nashville, Tennessee is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s critical care nursing degrees to 46 students in 2019-2020.

Vanderbilt did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Critical Care Nursing Master’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Vanderbilt are $50,624.

Read more about Critical Care Nursing at Vanderbilt University

#2

Southern Adventist University

Collegedale, Tennessee

$11,700 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Adventist University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Critical Care Nursing Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee For Those Making $0-$30k list. Southern Adventist University is a small school located in Collegedale, Tennessee that handed out 9 masters’s critical care nursing degrees in 2019-2020.

Southern Adventist also made our “Best Critical Care Nursing Master’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” list, coming in at #0. Average graduate tuition and fees at Southern Adventist University are $11,700, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full Southern Adventist University Critical Care Nursing Report

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Critical Care Nursing (Income $0-$30k) in the Southeast Region
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Critical Care 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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