2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Nursing Practice in the Great Lakes Region (With Aid)

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Nursing Practice Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 1,558 nursing practice graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 21 nursing practice graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,039 and $42,488 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent nursing practice programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the nursing practice program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. 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 Nursing Practice Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Nursing Practice Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Nursing Practice Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Nursing Practice in the Great Lakes Region (With Aid)

#1

Ball State University

Muncie, Indiana

#1 in overall quality

$26,204 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Nursing Practice Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Ball State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Ball State University is a large public school situated in Muncie, Indiana. It awarded 21 masters’s nursing practice degrees in 2019-2020.

Ball State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Nursing Practice Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Ball State University are $26,204.

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• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Nursing Practice (With Aid)

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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