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2022 Best Value Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Schools for a Doctorate in California For Those Making $0-$30k

1 Ranked Colleges
77 Degrees Awarded
$12,600 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Schools for a Doctorate in California For Those Making $0-$30k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Schools for a Doctorate in California For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 1,812 people earned their degree in psychiatric/mental health nurse/nursing, making the major the 527th most popular in the United States.

Across California, there were 114 psychiatric/mental health nurse/nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 77 psychiatric/mental health nurse/nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,544 and $133,402 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality psychiatric/mental health nurse/nursing programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the psychiatric/mental health nurse/nursing program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Schools for a Doctorate in California For Those Making $0-$30k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Schools for a Doctorate in California For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for california doctor’s degree psychiatric/mental health nursing students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing (Income $0-$30k) in California

#1

Brandman University

Irvine, California
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Schools for a Doctorate in California For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Brandman University landed the #1 spot on the list. Brandman is located in Irvine, California and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 75 doctorate’s psychiatric/mental health nursing degrees to qualified students.

Brandman did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing Doctor’s Degree Schools in California” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Brandman are $12,540, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full Brandman University Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing 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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