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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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 | |
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Tuition | $49,024 | $49,024 |
Fees | $2,170 | $2,170 |
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.
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.
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%.
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%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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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 |
Nursing students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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Registered Nursing | 277 |
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Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Advanced Dentistry & Oral Sciences | 16 |
Health & Medical Administrative Services | 108 |
Public Health | 345 |
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions | 53 |
Bioethics/Medical Ethics | 57 |
*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.
More about our data sources and methodologies.