2022 Best Value Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Schools for a Master’s 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. 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 Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 master’s degree level specifically, there were 7 psychiatric/mental health nurse/nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,281 and $50,119 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent psychiatric/mental health nurse/nursing programs, but they also cost less that 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 psychiatric/mental health nurse/nursing program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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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 Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Making $0-$30k” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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

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

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

#1

Charles R Drew University of Medicine and Science

Los Angeles, California

#1 in overall quality

$27,376 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Charles R Drew University of Medicine and Science landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Los Angeles, California, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 7 diplomas to qualified masters’s psychiatric/mental health nursing students in 2019-2020.

CDU also took the #1 spot in our “Best Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing Master’s Degree Schools in California” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Charles R Drew University of Medicine and Science are $27,376, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing (Income $0-$30k) in the Far Western US Region
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/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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