Why is Samford's nursing school so highly regarded?

I'm currently a second semester nursing student. I know that ultimately, I'd like to be a FNP so I've been looking at different programs. My top three choices are University of Al-Tuscaloosa, University South Alabama, and Samford in Birmingham. Everything I see about Samford looks great (the small class size, teachers care about you, and a Christian atmosphere) however the price is crazy high (approximately 30,000 a year for a full time student).

Normally, I wouldn't even consider paying this amount but they do have a RN-DNP program and I'm wanting to join the USPHS anyway. There are federal agencies that I can work for while serving in the USPHS that will pay back 60 percent of my loans back in two years and 20 percent for every year after. Worse case scenerio is I don't get in the USPHS and I just go work for those agencies directly and still get the student loan repayment which is fine with me (cause daddy can't pay back 5 years of tuition at 30,000!)

Anyway, I can never find WHY Samford's tuition is worth it. Everywhere I look online says that the classes are smaller, professor know your name and that's great but not great enough for me to pay 30,000 a year over 10,000 a year for UA and USA. Is there anyone in one of the nursing programs at Samford that can enlighten me? Do Samford professor tell you exactly what to read verses the horror stories I hear at some online nurse practitioner programs where students are given a hundred pages to study for one class but no guide on what's important? Why are all you guys willing to pay 3 times the tuition at Samford over the public colleges?