2023 Best Value Nursing Master's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Finding the Best Nursing Master's Degree School for You
In 2020-2021, 66,964 nursing students received a degree or certificate, making the major the #2 most popular in the country.
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To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Nursing Master's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking. Our analysis looked at 21 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to see which master'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.
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 Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region
The following schools top our list of the Best Value Nursing Master's Degree Colleges.
Top 10 Best Nursing Master's Degree Schools
Our 2023 rankings named Denver College of Nursing the best value school in the Rocky Mountains Region for nursing students working on their master’s degree. Denver College of Nursing is a small private for-profit school located in the large city of Denver.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Denver College of Nursing are $1,840 per year.
A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Western Governors University is a great value for nursing students working on their master’s degree. Located in the large suburb of Salt Lake City, WGU is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at WGU are $7,790 a year.
WGU also took the #4 spot in our Best Nursing Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region rankings.
The excellent master’s degree programs at Brigham Young University - Provo helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value nursing schools in the Rocky Mountains Region . BYU is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the medium-sized city of Provo.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at BYU are $7,700 per year.
BYU also made our Best Nursing Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list, coming in at #3.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northwest Nazarene University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Nursing Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Located in the suburb of Nampa, NNU is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at NNU are $10,964 a year.
Out of the 21 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Westminster College Utah landed the # 5 spot on the list. Westminster College Salt Lake is a small private not-for-profit school located in the midsize city of Salt Lake City.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Westminster College Salt Lake are $16,689 a year.
University of Providence ranked #6 on this year’s Best Value Nursing Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list. University of Providence is a fairly small private not-for-profit school located in the small city of Great Falls.
University of Providence graduate students pay an average of $24,327 in tuition and fees each year.
As a testament to the quality of education it offers, University of Providence also is in the top 20% of our Best Nursing Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking.
With a ranking of #7, Regis University did quite well on this year’s best value schools for nursing students working on their master’s degree. Located in the large city of Denver, Regis U is a private not-for-profit college with a moderately-sized student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Regis U are $15,079 per year.
University of Wyoming did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for nursing students to get a master’s degree. It came in at #8 on the list. Located in the remote town of Laramie, UW is a public school with a fairly large student population.
UW graduate students pay an average of $17,569 in tuition and fees each year.
With a ranking of #9, Colorado State University - Pueblo did quite well on this year’s best value schools for nursing students working on their master’s degree. Colorado State University - Pueblo is a medium-sized public school located in the midsize city of Pueblo.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Colorado State University - Pueblo are $19,773 per year.
Colorado Mesa University came in at #10 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Nursing Master’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking. Colorado Mesa is a moderately-sized public school located in the city of Grand Junction.
Colorado Mesa graduate students pay an average of $14,535 in tuition and fees each year.
Best Nursing Colleges by State
Explore the best nursing colleges for a specific state in the Rocky Mountains region.
| State | Degrees Awarded |
|---|---|
| Colorado | 1,462 |
| Utah | 3,534 |
| Idaho | 85 |
| Montana | 42 |
| Wyoming | 19 |
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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 21 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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