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2023 Best Value Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in Arkansas

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$6,598 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$99,011 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Nursing Graduate Certificate School for You

In 2020-2021, nursing students earned 299 degrees and certificates from an Arkansas school, making the subject the 9th in the state.

There are so many programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one for you. 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 that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

The Best Value Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in Arkansas ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 2 schools in Arkansas 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.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in Arkansas

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for nursing majors pursuing a graduate certificate.

Best Arkansas Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Nursing

Our 2023 rankings named Arkansas State University - Main Campus the best value school in Arkansas for nursing students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the small city of Jonesboro, A-State is a public school with a fairly large student population.

A-State graduate students pay an average of $6,422 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, A-State is ranked #1 for overall quality for nursing in Arkansas.

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Out of the 2 schools in Arkansas that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Central Arkansas landed the # 2 spot on the list. UCA is a fairly large public school located in the small city of Conway.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at UCA are $6,773 a year.

UCA did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our Best Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in Arkansas list.

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Best Value Nursing Colleges in the Southeast Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Virginia 1,110
Florida 3,074
Georgia 1,685
North Carolina 1,399
Tennessee 1,589
Kentucky 2,017
Louisiana 520
Alabama 2,641
South Carolina 468
Mississippi 262
West Virginia 184

One of 29 majors within the area of study, nursing has other similar majors worth exploring.

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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