2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Nurse Specialist Major in the Far Western US Region

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In 2020-2021, 419 people earned their degree in clinical nurse specialist, making the major the 642nd most popular in the United States.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 190 clinical nurse specialist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 187 clinical nurse specialist graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,693 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Nurse Specialist Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in clinical nurse specialist. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in clinical nurse specialist.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Nurse Specialist Major in the Far Western US Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region master’s degree clinical nurse specialist students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Clinical Nurse Specialist in the Far Western US Region

1

University of San Francisco
San Francisco, California

Top 20% overall quality in Far Western US

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of San Francisco. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Nurse Specialist Major in the Far Western US Region. This fairly large school is located in San Francisco, California, and it awarded 186 masters’s clinical nurse specialist degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Clinical Nurse Specialist at University of San Francisco

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Mount Saint Mary's University
Los Angeles, California

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mount Saint Mary’s University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Nurse Specialist Major in the Far Western US Region list. MSMU is a private not-for-profit institution located in Los Angeles, California. The school has a small population, and it awarded 1 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Clinical Nurse Specialist at Mount Saint Mary’s University

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Clinical Nurse Specialist

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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