2022 Best Value Colleges for Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this 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 the Southwest region, there were 30 psychiatric/mental health nurse/nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great psychiatric/mental health nurse/nursing programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the psychiatric/mental health nurse/nursing program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region psychiatric/mental health nursing students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Colleges for Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

#1

University of the Incarnate Word

San Antonio, Texas

#2 in overall quality

$24,784 Average Net Price

$49,167 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of the Incarnate Word. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Schools in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid. UIW is a medium-sized school located in San Antonio, Texas that handed out 4 ’s psychiatric/mental health nursing degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UIW, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend University of the Incarnate Word is $24,784 for southwest region psychiatric/mental health nursing students with aid.

Read full report on Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing at UIW

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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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