2024 Best Registered Nursing Master's Degree Schools in Connecticut
4Colleges in Connecticut
216Master's Degrees
Registered Nursing is of the hottest master's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #4 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 4 schools in Connecticut to determine which ones were the best for master's degree seekers in the field of registered nursing. Combined, these schools handed out 216 master's degrees in registered nursing to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Registered Nursing School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of registered nursing for getting your master'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 master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to registered nursing students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of registered nursing students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized registered nursing related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for registered nursing students working on their master's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Registered Nursing Master's Degree Schools in Connecticut ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Registered Nursing in Connecticut
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in registered nursing.
Top Connecticut Schools for a Master's in Registered Nursing
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).