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Date: June 26th, 2008
Author: Career College News
GetEducated.com survey ranks best consumer buys in online college degrees healthcare and nursing
Thinking of launching or accelerating your nursing or healthcare career by earning an online college degree? Want to save a few thousand dollars and earn your masters degree at a top ranked university? Check out GetEducated.com’s new comparative ratings and rankings of accredited online universities: Top Ranked Consumer Best Buys in Online Healthcare and Nursing College Degrees.
A regionally accredited distance masters in healthcare can cost as little as $7,560 (University of Florida for Florida residents seeking a Masters in Health Occupational Therapy) or as much as $52,000 (George Washington University - Healthcare MBA) according to GetEducated.com’s just published survey of 49 regionally accredited universities which offer online and distance learning masters degrees in health and nursing career areas.
How much should health workers expect to pay for an online masters? The average cost of a distance masters degree in a healthcare or nursing career area is just under $21,000 according to GetEducated.com’s national survey data; however cost can easily skyrocket to over $50,000 if consumers fail to take the time to compare online university options.
Consumers can avoid over-priced online education programs and locate bargain buys by searching GetEducated’s rankings of online universities, GetEducated.com’s Top Ranked Consumer Best Buys in Online Healthcare and Nursing College Degrees.
A large number of name-brand public colleges ranked high on GetEducated’s Top Ranked Online College Degrees list, including the University of Texas System, Indiana State University, The University of Missouri-Columbia, the University of Maryland, The University of Florida, and Western Governor’s University (Utah).
Vicky Phillips, GetEducated’s founder, points to Indiana State University’s Masters in Nursing Administration (ranked #6 at $10,318) as an example of the amazing deals available to students if they take the time to compare online education options. “The cost of this degree is half that of the national average. Who wouldn’t consider a solid state school for career nursing education if it meant saving $10,000 on their education bill in these tough economic times?”
The online education expert recommends that cost conscious consumers explore publicly funded university systems, over 70% of which now offer graduate degrees online.
Complete profiles of the 49 graduate schools offering more than 300 distance degree programs surveyed for the top online healthcare universities are available inside GetEducated.com’s Best Distance Learning Graduate Schools Healthcare & Nursing.
This free consumer-oriented ebook profiles more than 300 screened, accredited online masters and doctorate degrees in nursing, healthcare management, gerontology and aging, physical therapy, patient services, healthcare informatics, nutrition, movement, nursing education, public health, and health informatics.
About: GetEducated.com
Founded in 1989, GetEducated.com, LLC is the safest place in cyberspace to shop for your online degree ™. In a nationwide campaign to assist consumers in locating quality online education the firm rates and ranks online colleges and universities and actively campaigns against online diploma and degree mills. In addition to rating and ranking online schools the clearinghouse operates the Diploma Mill Police, a free online degree accreditation verification service designed to protect online degree seekers from fraud.
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