by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Well Attended Clinical Nurse Specialist Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.
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 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.
For this year’s “Most Well Attended Clinical Nurse Specialist Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in clinical nurse specialist. To top this list, a school must have a successful clinical nurse specialist program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.
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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Most Well Attended Clinical Nurse Specialist Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s” list to help you make the college decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Clinical Nurse Specialist Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Jacksonville University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Clinical Nurse Specialist Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s list. Jacksonville University is a small school located in Jacksonville, Florida that handed out 46 masters’s clinical nurse specialist degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Florida Southern College. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Clinical Nurse Specialist Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s. Florida Southern College is located in Lakeland, Florida and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 masters’s clinical nurse specialist degrees to qualified students.
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%.
Full Florida Southern College Clinical Nurse Specialist Report
Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Clinical Nurse Specialist Major in the Southeast Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Union University landed the #2 spot on the list. Union University 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 school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. 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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