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 Yale University. Here, you’ll find out more about the major doctor’s degree program in nursing, including such details as the number of graduates, diversity of students, and more.
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The average full-time tuition and fees for graduate students are shown in the table below.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $44,500 | $44,500 |
The median early career salary of nursing students who receive their doctor’s degree from Yale is $147,557 per year. That is 28% higher than the national average of $115,628.
Online degrees for the Yale nursing doctor’s degree program are not available at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the Yale Online Learning page.
Women made up around 77.8% of the nursing students who took home a doctor’s degree in 2019-2020. This is less than the nationwide number of 86.1%.
Around 50.0% of nursing doctor’s degree recipients at Yale in 2019-2020 were awarded to racial-ethnic minorities*. This is higher than the nationwide number of 31%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 1 |
Black or African American | 5 |
Hispanic or Latino | 2 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 9 |
International Students | 0 |
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 | 18 |
You may also be interested in one of these majors related to nursing.
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Medicine | 112 |
Medical Science | 2 |
Public Health | 6 |
*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.