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Columbia University in the City of New York Master’s in Nursing

277 Master's Degrees Awarded
$112,520 Average Salary

The main focus area for this major is Registered Nursing. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.

Nursing is a major offered under the health professions program of study at Columbia University in the City of New York. We’ve gathered data and other essential information about the master’s degree program in nursing, such as if the program is offered online, ethnicity of students, how many students graduated in recent times, and more.

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How Much Does a Master’s in Nursing from Columbia Cost?

$51,194 Average Tuition and Fees

Columbia Graduate Tuition and Fees

In 2019-2020, the average part-time graduate tuition at Columbia was $1,974 per credit hour for both in-state and out-of-state students. Information about average full-time graduate student tuition and fees is shown in the table below.

In State Out of State
Tuition $49,024 $49,024
Fees $2,170 $2,170

How Much Can You Make With a Master’s in Nursing From Columbia?

$112,520 Average Salary
High Earnings Boost

The median early career salary of nursing students who receive their master’s degree from Columbia is $112,520 per year. That is 15% higher than the national average of $97,473.

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Does Columbia Offer an Online Master’s in Nursing?

Columbia does not offer an online option for its nursing master’s degree program at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the Columbia Online Learning page.

Columbia Master’s Student Diversity for Nursing

277 Master's Degrees Awarded
87.0% Women
50.9% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
During the 2019-2020 academic year, there were 277 master’s degrees in nursing handed out to qualified students. The charts and tables below give more information about these students.

Male-to-Female Ratio

About 87.0% of the students who received their Master’s in nursing in 2019-2020 were women. This is about the same as the countrywide number of 86.9%.

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Racial-Ethnic Diversity

Racial-ethnic minority graduates* made up 50.9% of the nursing master’s degrees at Columbia in 2019-2020. This is higher than the nationwide number of 33%.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 72
Black or African American 26
Hispanic or Latino 40
Native American or Alaska Native 2
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander 1
White 131
International Students 4
Other Races/Ethnicities 1

Master’s in Nursing Focus Areas at Columbia

Nursing students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.

Focus Area Annual Graduates
Registered Nursing 277

You may also be interested in one of these majors related to nursing.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Advanced Dentistry & Oral Sciences 16
Health & Medical Administrative Services 108
Public Health 345
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions 53
Bioethics/Medical Ethics 57

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References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

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