2022 Best Value Nursing Schools for a Master’s in Nevada For Those Getting Aid

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Nursing Schools for a Master’s in Nevada For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

With 313,362 degrees handed out in 2019-2020, nursing is the 3rd most popular major in the United States. In 2017-2018, nursing graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $67,065 and had an average of $26,282 in loans still to pay off.

Across Nevada, there were 1,822 nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $79,688 and $23,913 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 100 nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,581 and $45,224 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Nursing Schools for a Master’s in Nevada For Those Getting Aid” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in nursing. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent 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 nursing program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Nursing Schools for a Master’s in Nevada For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Nursing Schools for a Master’s in Nevada For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Nursing in Nevada (With Aid)

#1

University of Nevada - Las Vegas

Las Vegas, Nevada

#2 in overall quality

$21,962 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$106,421 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Nevada - Las Vegas. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Nursing Schools for a Master’s in Nevada For Those Getting Aid list. Las Vegas, Nevada is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s nursing degrees to 29 students in 2019-2020.

UNLV did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Nursing Master’s Degree Schools in Nevada” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Nevada - Las Vegas are $21,962, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Nursing at UNLV

#2

University of Nevada - Reno

Reno, Nevada

#3 in overall quality

$21,971 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$109,286 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Nursing Schools for a Master’s in Nevada For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Nevada - Reno landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Reno, Nevada, this large public school handed out 30 diplomas to qualified masters’s nursing students in 2019-2020.

UNR also took the #3 spot in our “Best Nursing Master’s Degree Schools in Nevada” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at UNR are $21,971, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Nursing at UNR

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• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for 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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