The main focus area for this major is Nursing Science. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.
Nursing is a major offered under the health professions program of study at Northern Illinois University. 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 NIU was $492 per credit hour for both in-state and out-of-state students. The following table shows the average full-time tuition and fees for graduate student.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $8,858 | $8,858 |
Fees | $2,228 | $2,228 |
The median early career salary of nursing students who receive their master’s degree from NIU is $92,743 per year. That is 5% lower than the national average of $97,473.
NIU 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 NIU Online Learning page.
About 90.3% of the students who received their Master’s in nursing in 2019-2020 were women. This is higher than the nationwide number of 86.9%.
Racial-ethnic minority graduates* made up 35.5% of the nursing master’s degrees at NIU in 2019-2020. This is higher than the nationwide number of 33%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 5 |
Black or African American | 0 |
Hispanic or Latino | 5 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 18 |
International Students | 1 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 2 |
Nursing students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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Nursing Science | 31 |
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Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Communication Sciences | 22 |
Public Health | 16 |
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions | 7 |
Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services | 12 |
*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.