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Best Value Nursing Doctor's Degree Schools in Delaware

2023 Best Value Nursing Doctor's Degree Schools in Delaware

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$13,594 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$115,233 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Nursing Doctor's Degree School for You

In 2020-2021, nursing students earned 1,267 degrees and certificates from a Delaware school, making the subject the 2nd in the state.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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 Doctor's Degree Schools in Delaware to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 2 schools in Delaware to see which ones offered the best value doctor's degree 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. 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.

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

Best Delaware Schools for Affordable Quality for a Doctorate in Nursing

#1

Wilmington University

New Castle, DE

Our 2023 rankings named Wilmington University the best value school in Delaware for nursing students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in the suburb of New Castle, Wilmington University is a private not-for-profit school with a large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Wilmington University are $9,060 a year.

Wilmington University also made our Best Nursing Doctor’s Degree Schools in Delaware list, coming in at #2.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Delaware. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Nursing Doctor’s Degree Schools in Delaware list. UD is a very large public school located in the large suburb of Newark.

UD graduate students pay an average of $18,128 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

UD also took the #1 spot in our Best Nursing Doctor’s Degree Schools in Delaware rankings.

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Best Value Nursing Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Pennsylvania 11,477
New York 17,708
Maryland 4,104
New Jersey 5,648
District of Columbia 990

One of 30 majors within the area of study, nursing has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Health & Medical Administrative Services 89,359
Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services 84,492
Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants 84,274
Allied Health Professions 82,308
Public Health 40,596

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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