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2023 Best Value Nursing & Nursing Assistants Doctor's Degree Schools

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$12,195 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$33,984 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants Doctor's Degree School for You

Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants is the #21 most popular major in the country with 84,274 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for healthcare students. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Healthcare Degree Search has created its Best Value Nursing & Nursing Assistants Doctor's Degree Schools ranking.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. 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.

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

Best Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants Doctor's Degree School

#1

Rivier University

Nashua, NH

Our 2023 rankings named Rivier University the best value school in the United States for practical nursing and nursing assistants students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in the city of Nashua, Rivier is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

Rivier graduate students pay an average of $12,195 in tuition and fees each year.

Rivier excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 15% of all schools on our Best Nursing & Nursing Assistants Doctor’s Degree Schools list.

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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

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 values are for the top school 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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