2023 Best Value Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in Florida
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Finding the Best Nursing Graduate Certificate School for You
In 2020-2021, nursing students earned 3,074 degrees and certificates from a Florida school, making the subject the 2nd in the state.
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To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Grad Degree Search has developed this Best Value Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in Florida ranking. This report analyzed 10 schools in Florida 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.
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2023 Best Value Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in Florida
The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for nursing majors pursuing a graduate certificate.
Top 10 Best Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools
Our 2023 rankings named Florida Atlantic University the best value school in Florida for nursing students working on their graduate certificate. FAU is a fairly large public school located in the city of Boca Raton.
FAU graduate students pay an average of $6,693 in in-state tuition and fees each year.
Out of the 10 schools in Florida that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Florida landed the # 2 spot on the list. UF is a very large public school located in the midsize city of Gainesville.
The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at UF are $12,737 a year.
UF did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in Florida list.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Florida International University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in Florida list. Located in the suburb of Miami, FIU is a public college with a very large student population.
The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at FIU are $11,106 a year.
The excellent graduate certificate programs at University of Central Florida helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best value nursing schools in Florida. Located in the suburb of Orlando, UCF is a public school with a fairly large student population.
In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UCF are $8,872 per year.
In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, UCF is ranked #4 for overall quality for nursing in Florida.
Out of the 10 schools in Florida that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Tampa landed the # 5 spot on the list. UT is a large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Tampa.
The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at UT are $12,014 a year.
Jacksonville University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for nursing students to get a graduate certificate. It came in at #6 on the list. Located in the large city of Jacksonville, JU is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.
JU graduate students pay an average of $14,039 in in-state tuition and fees each year.
Florida Southern College came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in Florida ranking. Located in the medium-sized city of Lakeland, Florida Southern is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.
Florida Southern graduate students pay an average of $17,482 in in-state tuition and fees each year.
Nova Southeastern University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for nursing students to get a graduate certificate. It came in at #8 on the list. Located in the large suburb of Fort Lauderdale, NUS Florida is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.
NUS Florida graduate students pay an average of $22,790 in in-state tuition and fees each year.
University of Miami did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for nursing students to get a graduate certificate. It came in at #9 on the list. Located in the small city of Coral Gables, U Miami is a private not-for-profit college with a large student population.
The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at U Miami are $41,036 a year. On average, nursing graduates from U Miami take out $26,723 in student loans while working on their Graduate Certificate.
U Miami also made our Best Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in Florida list, coming in at #2.
Miami Regional University landed the #10 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value graduate certificate nursing programs. Miami Regional University is a small private for-profit school located in the large suburb of Miami Springs.
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 |
| Georgia | 1,685 |
| North Carolina | 1,399 |
| Tennessee | 1,589 |
| Kentucky | 2,017 |
| Louisiana | 520 |
| Alabama | 2,641 |
| South Carolina | 468 |
| Mississippi | 262 |
| Arkansas | 299 |
| West Virginia | 184 |
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Nursing Related Majors for Nursing
One of 29 majors within the area of study, nursing has other similar majors worth exploring.
Most Popular Majors Related 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 10 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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