2022 Best Value Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking.

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

Across the Plains States region, there were 409 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 144 psychiatric/mental health nurse/nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,438 and $39,783 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in psychiatric/mental health nurse/nursing. 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 Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region master’s degree psychiatric/mental health nursing students with aid.

Top 3 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing in the Plains States Region (With Aid)

#1

Mount Marty University

Yankton, South Dakota

#2 in overall quality

$8,175 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mount Marty University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid list. Yankton, South Dakota is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s psychiatric/mental health nursing degrees to 4 students in 2019-2020.

Mount Marty also made our “Best Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing Master’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list, coming in at #2. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Mount Marty are $8,175.

Read full report on Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing at Mount Marty

#2

Maryville University of Saint Louis

Saint Louis, Missouri

#1 in overall quality

$15,696 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Maryville University of Saint Louis. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid. Located in Saint Louis, Missouri, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 131 diplomas to qualified masters’s psychiatric/mental health nursing students in 2019-2020.

Maryville U also took the #1 spot in our “Best Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing Master’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Maryville University of Saint Louis are $15,696, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full Maryville U Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing Report

#3

Cox College

Springfield, Missouri

$12,610 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Cox College. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid. Cox College is a small school located in Springfield, Missouri that handed out 1 masters’s psychiatric/mental health nursing degrees in 2019-2020.

Cox College also took the #0 spot in our “Best Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing Master’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Cox College are $12,610, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing at Cox College

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing (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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