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2023 Best Value Nursing Doctor's Degree Schools in Utah

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$12,705 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$115,233 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Nursing Doctor's Degree School for You

Nursing is the most popular major in Utah with 17,535 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021.

When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for healthcare students. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Healthcare Degree Search has developed this Best Value Nursing Doctor's Degree Schools in Utah ranking. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in Utah to see which doctor's degree programs offered the best value experiences for nursing students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

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.

2023 Best Value Nursing Doctor’s Degree Schools in Utah

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for nursing majors pursuing a doctor's degree.

Best Utah Schools for Affordable Quality for a Doctorate in Nursing

#1

University of Utah

Salt Lake City, UT

Our analysis found University of Utah to be the best value school for nursing students who want to pursue a doctor’s degree in Utah. Located in the midsize city of Salt Lake City, U of U is a public school with a very large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at U of U are $8,068 per year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, U of U is ranked #3 for overall quality for nursing in Utah.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Weber State University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Nursing Doctor’s Degree Schools in Utah list. Located in the small city of Ogden, WSU is a public college with a fairly large student population.

WSU graduate students pay an average of $8,647 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

WSU did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our Best Nursing Doctor’s Degree Schools in Utah list.

Read full report on Nursing at Weber State University

A rank of #3 on this year’s list means Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions is a great value for nursing students working on their doctor’s degree. RMUoHP is a small private for-profit school located in the midsize city of Provo.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at RMUoHP are $17,416 per year.

Full Nursing at Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions Report

#4

Westminster College Utah

Salt Lake City, UT

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Westminster College Utah. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Nursing Doctor’s Degree Schools in Utah list. Westminster College Salt Lake is a small private not-for-profit school located in the medium-sized city of Salt Lake City.

Westminster College Salt Lake graduate students pay an average of $16,689 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Westminster College Salt Lake is ranked #2 for overall quality for nursing in Utah.

Full Nursing at Westminster College Utah Report

Best Value Nursing Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region

Explore all the Best Value Nursing Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Colorado 6,496
Idaho 1,593
Montana 745
Wyoming 397

One of 30 majors within the healthcare area of study, nursing has other similar majors worth exploring.

Nursing Concentrations

Major Annual Graduates
Registered Nursing 266,651
Family Practice Nurse/Nursing 16,104
Nursing Administration 9,838
Nursing Practice 7,992
Other Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing 5,092
Nursing Science 4,600
Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing 2,287
Adult Health Nurse/Nursing 2,021
Nurse Anesthetist 1,936
Public Health/Community Nurse/Nursing 1,883
Critical Care Nursing 773
Geriatric Nurse/Nursing 563
School Nursing 553
Nurse Midwife/Nursing Midwifery 509
Clinical Nurse Leader 444
Clinical Nurse Specialist 419
Perioperative/Operating Room and Surgical Nurse/Nursing 331
Maternal/Child Health and Neonatal Nurse/Nursing 181
Occupational and Environmental Health Nursing 57
Emergency Room/Trauma Nursing 53
Palliative Care Nursing 14
Forensic Nursing 14

Majors Similar to Nursing

Related Major Annual Graduates
Health & Medical Administrative Services 89,359
Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services 84,492
Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants 84,274
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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Aleksahgabrielle.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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