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2023 Best Value Nursing & Nursing Assistants Associate Degree Schools in Pennsylvania

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$19,902 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$41,222 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants Associate Degree School for You

Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants is the #22 most popular major in Pennsylvania with 97 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which healthcare program is right for you. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools with offerings that you might find attractive.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Healthcare Degree Search has created the Best Value Nursing & Nursing Assistants Associate Degree Schools in Pennsylvania to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 4 schools in Pennsylvania to see which ones offered the best value associate degree programs for practical nursing students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

Best Pennsylvania Schools for Affordable Quality for an Associate in Nursing & Nursing Assistants

Our 2023 rankings named Pennsylvania Institute of Technology the best value school in Pennsylvania for practical nursing and nursing assistants students working on their associate degree. Located in the large suburb of Media, Pennsylvania Institute of Technology is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Pennsylvania Institute of Technology are $13,905 a year.

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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Pennsylvania College of Technology is a great value for practical nursing and nursing assistants students working on their associate degree. Penn College is a small public school located in the small city of Williamsport.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Penn College are $17,610 a year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, Penn College also did well on our Best Nursing & Nursing Assistants Associate Degree Schools in Pennsylvania list. It’s in the top 15% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

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The excellent associate degree programs at Fortis Institute - Scranton helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value practical nursing and nursing assistants schools in Pennsylvania. Fortis Institute - Scranton is a fairly small private for-profit school located in the small city of Scranton.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Fortis Institute - Scranton are $28,190 per year.

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PITC Institute

Wyncote, PA

A rank of #4 on this year’s list means PITC Institute is a great value for practical nursing and nursing assistants students working on their associate degree. PITC Institute is a fairly small private for-profit school located in the suburb of Wyncote.

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Best Value Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

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Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants is one of 30 different types of healthcare programs to choose from.

Practical Nursing Focus Areas

Major Annual Graduates
Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse Training 44,900
Nursing Assistant/Aide and Patient Care Assistant/Aide 34,557
Other Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants 4,817

Majors Similar to Practical Nursing

Related Major Annual Graduates
Nursing 322,592
Health & Medical Administrative Services 89,359
Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services 84,492
Allied Health Professions 82,308
Public Health 40,596

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 4 schools only.

  • 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 the rest 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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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