2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Nursing Science in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Nursing Science Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Nursing Science is the 150th most popular major in the country with 4,637 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 101 nursing science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 12 nursing science graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,078 and $37,227 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great nursing science programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the nursing science program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. 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 Nursing Science Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest 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 Science Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

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

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Nursing Science in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

#1

Oklahoma Wesleyan University

Bartlesville, Oklahoma

#1 in overall quality

$10,645 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Nursing Science Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Oklahoma Wesleyan University landed the #1 spot on the list. Oklahoma Wesleyan University is a small school located in Bartlesville, Oklahoma that handed out 12 masters’s nursing science degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at OKWU or OWU, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Nursing Science 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 OKWU or OWU are $10,645.

Read more about Nursing Science at OKWU or OWU

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Nursing Science (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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