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2023 Best Value Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in District of Columbia

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$44,016 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$99,011 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Nursing Graduate Certificate School for You

Out of the majors we analyze each year, nursing was ranked 5th in District of Columbia. In fact, 534 were awarded in the state in 2020-2021.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. 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 assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in District of Columbia ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in District of Columbia to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for 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. 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.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in District of Columbia

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Nursing Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Best District of Columbia Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Nursing

Our analysis found George Washington University to be the best value school for nursing students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in District of Columbia. GWU is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Washington.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at GWU are $32,904 a year.

GWU also made our Best Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in District of Columbia list, coming in at #2.

Read full report on Nursing at George Washington University

#2

Georgetown University

Washington, DC

The excellent graduate certificate programs at Georgetown University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value nursing schools in District of Columbia. Georgetown is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Washington.

Georgetown graduate students pay an average of $55,128 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Georgetown also took the #1 spot in our Best Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in District of Columbia rankings.

Full Nursing at Georgetown University Report

Best Value Nursing Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
New York 3,148
Pennsylvania 2,683
Maryland 922
New Jersey 691
Delaware 174

Nursing is one of 29 different types of programs to choose from.

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 2 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.

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