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2023 Best Value Nursing & Nursing Assistants Associate Degree Schools in Pennsylvania

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$19,902 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$41,222 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants Associate Degree School for You

In 2020-2021, 97 degrees and certificates were awarded to practical nursing and nursing assistants students who went to a Pennsylvania college or university. This makes it the #186 most popular major 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. 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Nursing & Nursing Assistants Associate Degree Schools in Pennsylvania to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 4 schools in Pennsylvania to see which ones offered the best value associate degree programs for practical 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 Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants Associate Degree Schools in Pennsylvania

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for practical nursing majors pursuing a associate degree.

Best Pennsylvania Schools for Affordable Quality for an Associate in Nursing & Nursing Assistants

Our 2023 rankings named Pennsylvania Institute of Technology the best value school in Pennsylvania for practical nursing and nursing assistants students working on their associate degree. Located in the large suburb of Media, Pennsylvania Institute of Technology is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Pennsylvania Institute of Technology are $13,905 per year.

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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Pennsylvania College of Technology is a great value for practical nursing and nursing assistants students working on their associate degree. Penn College is a small public school located in the city of Williamsport.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Penn College are $17,610 per year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, Penn College also did well on our Best Nursing & Nursing Assistants Associate Degree Schools in Pennsylvania list. It’s in the top 20% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Fortis Institute - Scranton. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Nursing & Nursing Assistants Associate Degree Schools in Pennsylvania list. Fortis Institute - Scranton is a fairly small private for-profit school located in the small city of Scranton.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Fortis Institute - Scranton are $28,190 a year.

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#4

PITC Institute

Wyncote, PA

The excellent associate degree programs at PITC Institute helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best value practical nursing and nursing assistants schools in Pennsylvania. PITC Institute is a fairly small private for-profit school located in the large suburb of Wyncote.

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Best Value Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

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

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Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants is one of 30 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Nursing 322,592
Health & Medical Administrative Services 89,359
Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services 84,492
Allied Health Professions 82,308
Public Health 40,596

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 4 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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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