2022 Best Value Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Schools in Washington For Those Making $30-$48k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Schools in Washington For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing is the 527th most popular major in the country with 1,812 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Washington, there were 4 psychiatric/mental health nurse/nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 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 in Washington For Those Making $30-$48k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Schools in Washington For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Schools in Washington For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 1 Best Value Colleges for Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing (Income $30-$48k) in Washington

#1

Seattle University

Seattle, Washington

#1 in overall quality

$27,256 Average Net Price

$46,297 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Seattle University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Schools in Washington For Those Making $30-$48k list. Seattle, Washington is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s psychiatric/mental health nursing degrees to 4 students in 2019-2020.

Seattle U also took the #1 spot in our “Best Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing Schools in Washington” ranking. It costs about $27,256 for Washington Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend Seattle University.

The low student loan default rate of 2.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

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• Best Value Colleges for Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing (Income $30-$48k) in the Far Western US Region
• Best Value Colleges for Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing (Income $30-$48k)

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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