2024 Best Nursing Practice Doctor's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region
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Colleges in the Far Western US Region
397
Doctor's Degrees
Nursing Practice is of the hottest doctor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #7 most popular major in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
College Factual reviewed 23 schools in the Far Western US Region to determine which ones were the best for doctor's degree seekers in the field of nursing practice. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 397 doctor's degrees in nursing practice during the 2020-2021 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Nursing Practice School for Your Doctor's Degree
Your choice of nursing practice for getting your doctor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
- Major Focus - How much a school focuses on nursing practice students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other nursing practice students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
- Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized nursing practice related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for nursing practice students working on their doctor's degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Nursing Practice Doctor's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.