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2023 Best Value Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in New Jersey

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

5 Colleges
$18,997 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$99,011 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Nursing Graduate Certificate School for You

Nursing is one of the most popular subjects to study in New Jersey. With 5,648 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, it ranked 3rd out of all the majors we track in the state.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right 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.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Course Advisor has developed this Best Value Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in New Jersey ranking. This report analyzed 5 schools in New Jersey 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.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in New Jersey

Check out the nursing graduate certificate programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best New Jersey Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Nursing

Our analysis found Fairleigh Dickinson University - Metropolitan Campus to be the best value school for nursing students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in New Jersey. Located in the large suburb of Teaneck, FDU is a private not-for-profit college with a moderately-sized student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at FDU are $10,722 per year.

Read full report on Nursing at Fairleigh Dickinson University - Metropolitan Campus

Out of the 5 schools in New Jersey that were part of this year’s ranking, William Paterson University of New Jersey landed the # 2 spot on the list. William Paterson University is a medium-sized public school located in the large suburb of Wayne.

William Paterson University graduate students pay an average of $14,050 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Full Nursing at William Paterson University of New Jersey Report

The excellent graduate certificate programs at Felician University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value nursing schools in New Jersey. Felician is a small private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of Lodi.

Felician graduate students pay an average of $20,430 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Full Nursing at Felician University Report

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Rutgers University - New Brunswick. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in New Jersey list. Rutgers New Brunswick is a fairly large public school located in the city of New Brunswick.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Rutgers New Brunswick are $20,495 a year.

Rutgers New Brunswick also took the #3 spot in our Best Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in New Jersey rankings.

Full Nursing at Rutgers University - New Brunswick Report

#5

Monmouth University

West Long Branch, NJ

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Monmouth University. The school came in at #5 on this year’s Best Value Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in New Jersey list. Monmouth is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of West Long Branch.

Monmouth graduate students pay an average of $29,290 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Read full report on Nursing at Monmouth University

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
District of Columbia 990
Delaware 1,267

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

Majors Similar to Nursing

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 5 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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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