2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Nurse Leader Major in Pennsylvania

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 Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Nurse Leader Major in Pennsylvania” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 444 people earned their degree in clinical nurse leader, making the major the 617th most popular in the United States.

Across Pennsylvania, there were 4 clinical nurse leader graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 4 clinical nurse leader graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,136 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Nurse Leader Major in Pennsylvania” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in clinical nurse leader. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in clinical nurse leader.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Nurse Leader Major in Pennsylvania

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Nurse Leader Major in Pennsylvania”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Clinical Nurse Leader in Pennsylvania

1

La Salle University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend La Salle University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Nurse Leader Major in Pennsylvania. This small school is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 4 masters’s clinical nurse leader degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 5.0% 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%.

Read full report on Clinical Nurse Leader at La Salle University

2

Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine
Erie, Pennsylvania

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Nurse Leader Major in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in Erie, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 0 masters’s clinical nurse leader degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 1 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Full LECOM Clinical Nurse Leader Report

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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.

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