2023 Best Value Nursing Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices
Finding the Best Nursing Doctor's Degree School for You
With 66,964 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, nursing is the #2 most popular major in the United States.
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Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Nursing Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 64 schools in the Great Lakes Region 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. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.
Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.
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2023 Best Value Nursing Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for nursing majors pursuing a doctor's degree.
Top 10 Best Nursing Doctor's Degree Schools
Our 2023 rankings named Ferris State University the best value school in the Great Lakes Region for nursing students working on their doctor’s degree. Ferris is a large public school located in the town of Big Rapids.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Ferris are $8,232 per year.
On top of its placing in our value ranking, Ferris also did well on our Best Nursing Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. It’s in the top 20% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Saint Francis Medical Center College of Nursing. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Nursing Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in the city of Peoria, St. Francis Medical Center College of Nursing is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.
St. Francis Medical Center College of Nursing graduate students pay an average of $8,740 in tuition and fees each year.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ashland University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Nursing Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in the fringe town of Ashland, Ashland is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Ashland are $6,972 per year.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Viterbo University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Nursing Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in the city of La Crosse, Viterbo is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Viterbo are $9,488 a year.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend McKendree University. The school came in at #5 on this year’s Best Value Nursing Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. McKendree is a small private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of Lebanon.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at McKendree are $9,756 per year.
Chamberlain University - Illinois did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for nursing students to get a doctor’s degree. It came in at #6 on the list. Chamberlain - Illinois is a fairly large private for-profit school located in the suburb of Addison.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Chamberlain - Illinois are $14,090 a year.
With a ranking of #7, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville did quite well on this year’s best value schools for nursing students working on their doctor’s degree. SIUE is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of Edwardsville.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at SIUE are $9,316 a year.
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University of St Francis did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for nursing students to get a doctor’s degree. It came in at #8 on the list. University of Saint Francis is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Joliet.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at University of Saint Francis are $13,839 a year.
University of Saint Francis also took the #5 spot in our Best Nursing Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region rankings.
With a ranking of #9, Otterbein University did quite well on this year’s best value schools for nursing students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in the suburb of Westerville, Otterbein is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Otterbein are $14,392 per year.
As a testament to the quality of education it offers, Otterbein also is in the top 15% of our Best Nursing Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking.
Illinois State University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for nursing students to get a doctor’s degree. It came in at #10 on the list. Illinois State is a fairly large public school located in the medium-sized suburb of Normal.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Illinois State are $11,773 a year.
In addition to its great value ranking, Illinois State is in the top 20% of all schools on our Best Nursing Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list.
Additional Noteworthy Schools
Here are some additional great value schools for Nursing graduate students in the Great Lakes Region seeking value that almost earned our Best Value Nursing Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region award.
| Rank | College | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 11 | Lewis University | Romeoville, IL |
| 12 | Alverno College | Milwaukee, WI |
| 12 | Purdue University Global | Indianapolis, IN |
Best Nursing Colleges by State
Explore the best nursing colleges for a specific state in the Great Lakes region.
| State | Degrees Awarded |
|---|---|
| Michigan | 1,113 |
| Illinois | 6,634 |
| Ohio | 2,563 |
| Indiana | 1,819 |
| Wisconsin | 972 |
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Majors Related to Nursing
Nursing is one of 29 different types of programs to choose from.
Majors Similar to Nursing
| Related Major | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Medicine | 28,629 |
| Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions | 24,774 |
| Public Health | 19,473 |
| Health & Medical Administrative Services | 17,335 |
| Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences | 16,952 |
Notes and References
*These averages are for the top 25 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).
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