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2023 Best Value Healthcare Doctor's Degree Schools in Nebraska

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Prices

3 Schools Ranked
$19,319 Avg Tuition & Fees*

When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for healthcare students. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools and bootcamps that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Healthcare Degree Search has created the Best Value Healthcare Doctor's Degree Schools in Nebraska to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 3 schools in Nebraska to see which ones offered the best value doctor's degree programs for healthcare students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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.

Top Value Healthcare Doctor's Degree Schools in Nebraska

Learn more about these excellent schools below:

#1

University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Lincoln, Nebraska
8 Total Awards
$19,541 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named University of Nebraska - Lincoln the best value school in Nebraska for healthcare students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in Lincoln, Nebraska, the large public school handed out 8 doctor’s degree awards in 2020-2021.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UNL are $19,541 per year.

UNL does have options available for those who want to take online graduate classes. You will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your specific major. In 2019-2020 about 48% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.

UNL also made our Best Healthcare Doctor’s Degree Schools in Nebraska list, coming in at #3.

Read full report on University of Nebraska - Lincoln

#2

College of Saint Mary

Omaha, Nebraska
1 Total Awards
$17,638 Average Tuition & Fees

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means College of Saint Mary is a great place for healthcare students working on their doctor’s degree who want the most bang for their educational buck. Located in Omaha, Nebraska, the small private not-for-profit school handed out 1 doctor’s degree awards in 2020-2021.

Saint Mary graduate students pay an average of $17,638 in tuition and fees each year.

Depending on your major, you may be able to take online graduate classes at Saint Mary. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 38% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.

Saint Mary did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Healthcare Doctor’s Degree Schools in Nebraska list.

Full College of Saint Mary Report

#3

Creighton University

Omaha, Nebraska
668 Total Awards
$19,096 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent doctor’s degree programs at Creighton University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value healthcare schools in Nebraska. Creighton University is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in Omaha, Nebraska that handed out 668 doctor’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Creighton are $19,096 a year.

Online graduate courses are available at Creighton, but you will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your field of interest. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 50% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.

Creighton did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Healthcare Doctor’s Degree Schools in Nebraska list.

Full Creighton University Report

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*These averages are for the top 3 schools only.

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%.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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