by our College Data Analytics Team
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 Specialist Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Clinical Nurse Specialist is the 642nd most popular major in the country with 419 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southeast region, there were 46 clinical nurse specialist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 46 clinical nurse specialist graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Nurse Specialist Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in clinical nurse specialist. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their clinical nurse specialist program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Nurse Specialist Major in the Southeast 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. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree clinical nurse specialist students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Jacksonville University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Nurse Specialist Major in the Southeast Region. Jacksonville University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Jacksonville, Florida. It awarded 46 masters’s clinical nurse specialist degrees in 2020-2021.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Union University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Nurse Specialist Major in the Southeast Region list. Union is a private not-for-profit institution located in Jackson, Tennessee. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 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 school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Clinical Nurse Specialist Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Florida Southern College landed the #2 spot on the list. Lakeland, Florida is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s clinical nurse specialist degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.3% 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%.
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