2024 Best Pre-Nursing Studies Associate Degree Schools in the Plains States Region
4Colleges in the Plains States Region
169Associate Degrees
Ranked #84 in popularity, pre-nursing studies is one of the most sought-after associate degree programs in the nation. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in the Plains States Region to determine which ones were the best for pre-nursing studies students pursuing a associate degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 169 associate degrees in pre-nursing studies during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Pre-Nursing Studies School for Your Associate Degree
Your choice of pre-nursing studies for getting your associate 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 associate degree school is important to ensure a quality 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 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 many resources a school devotes to pre-nursing studies students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other pre-nursing studies students want to attend this school to pursue a associate 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 pre-nursing studies related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for pre-nursing studies students working on their associate degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Pre-Nursing Studies Associate Degree Schools in the Plains States Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.
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.