2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pre-Nursing Studies Major in the Far Western US Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pre-Nursing Studies Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 2,489 people earned their degree in pre-nursing studies, making the major the 340th most popular in the United States.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 147 pre-nursing studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 14 pre-nursing studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,720 and $23,024 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pre-Nursing Studies Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in pre-nursing studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their pre-nursing studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pre-Nursing Studies Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.

Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pre-Nursing Studies Major in the Far Western US Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region bachelor’s degree pre-nursing studies students.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Pre-Nursing Studies in the Far Western US Region

1

Central Washington University
Ellensburg, Washington

Top 25% overall quality in Far Western US

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Central Washington University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pre-Nursing Studies Major in the Far Western US Region list. Ellensburg, Washington is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s pre-nursing studies degrees to 14 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Pre-Nursing Studies at CWU

2

Holy Names University
Oakland, California

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pre-Nursing Studies Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Holy Names University landed the #2 spot on the list. HNU is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Oakland, California. It awarded 0 bachelors’s pre-nursing studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Pre-Nursing Studies at HNU

2

Mount Saint Mary's University
Los Angeles, California

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pre-Nursing Studies Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Mount Saint Mary’s University landed the #2 spot on the list. Mount Saint Mary’s University is a small school located in Los Angeles, California that handed out 0 bachelors’s pre-nursing studies degrees in 2020-2021.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.3% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full Mount Saint Mary’s University Pre-Nursing Studies Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Pre-Nursing Studies

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.