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Best Value Nursing & Nursing Assistants Basic Certificate Schools in the New England Region

2023 Best Value Nursing & Nursing Assistants Basic Certificate Schools in the New England Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

6 Colleges
$10,499 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants Basic Certificate School for You

In 2021-2022, 85,339 practical nursing & nursing assistants students received a degree or certificate, making the major the #2 most popular in the country.

Today's trade school students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Trade College Search has created the Best Value Nursing & Nursing Assistants Basic Certificate Schools in the New England Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 6 schools in the New England Region to see which ones offered the best value basic certificate programs for practical 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. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants Basic Certificate Schools in the New England Region

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

Best New England Region Schools for Affordable Quality for an Award Taking Less Than 1 Year in Nursing & Nursing Assistants

Our 2023 rankings named Bunker Hill Community College the best value school in the New England Region for practical nursing & nursing assistants students working on their basic certificate. BHCC is a medium-sized public school located in the city of Boston.

BHCC undergraduate students pay an average of $10,224 in tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, BHCC is ranked #1 for overall quality for practical nursing in the New England Region .

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Quinsigamond Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Nursing & Nursing Assistants Basic Certificate Schools in the New England Region list. Quinsigamond Community College is a moderately-sized public school located in the medium-sized city of Worcester.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Quinsigamond Community College are $10,774 per year.

Read full report on Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants at Quinsigamond Community College

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Lincoln Technical Institute - Shelton. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Nursing & Nursing Assistants Basic Certificate Schools in the New England Region list. Located in the suburb of Shelton, Lincoln Tech - Shelton is a private for-profit college with a fairly small student population.

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Best Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants Colleges by State

Explore the best practical nursing & nursing assistants colleges for a specific state in the New England region.

State Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts 627
Maine 34
Connecticut 587
Rhode Island 227
New Hampshire 71
Vermont 147

One of 11 majors within the trade school area of study, practical nursing & nursing assistants has other similar majors worth exploring.

Practical Nursing Focus Areas

Major Annual Graduates
Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse Training 45,031
Nursing Assistant/Aide and Patient Care Assistant/Aide 35,655
Other Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants 4,653

Related Major Annual Graduates
Health & Medical Administrative Services 88,600
Allied Health Professions 83,905
Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services 83,587
Health Sciences & Services 36,762
Mental & Social Health Services 30,331

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 6 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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