2022 Best Value Nursing Practice Schools for an Associate For Those Getting 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 Nursing Practice Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Nursing Practice is the 125th most popular major in the country with 7,550 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

At the associate degree level specifically, there were 79 nursing practice graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,082 and $17,678 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Nursing Practice Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in nursing practice. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality nursing practice 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 nursing practice program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Nursing Practice Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Nursing Practice Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for associate degree nursing practice students with aid.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Nursing Practice (With Aid)

#1

Columbia College

Columbia, Missouri

#1 in overall quality

$26,730 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Columbia College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Nursing Practice Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid. Located in Columbia, Missouri, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 59 diplomas to qualified associates’s nursing practice students in 2019-2020.

Columbia College Missouri also made our “Best Nursing Practice Associate Degree Schools” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $26,730 for associate degree nursing practice students with aid per year to attend Columbia College.

Read full report on Nursing Practice at Columbia College Missouri

#2

Las Vegas College

Henderson, Nevada

#2 in overall quality

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Nursing Practice Schools for an Associate For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Las Vegas College landed the #2 spot on the list. Las Vegas College is located in Henderson, Nevada and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 20 associates’s nursing practice degrees to qualified students.

Las Vegas College also took the #2 spot in our “Best Nursing Practice Associate Degree Schools” ranking.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Las Vegas College Nursing Practice Report

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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