2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Critical Care Nursing Major in Pennsylvania

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Critical Care Nursing Major in Pennsylvania” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 773 people earned their degree in critical care nursing, making the major the 529th most popular in the United States.

Across Pennsylvania, there were 10 critical care nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 9 critical care nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,136 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Critical Care Nursing Major in Pennsylvania” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in critical care nursing. That schools that top this list have a program in critical care nursing in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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The critical care nursing school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Critical Care Nursing Major in Pennsylvania”.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Critical Care Nursing Major in Pennsylvania

The colleges and universities below are the best for pennsylvania master’s degree critical care nursing students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Critical Care Nursing in Pennsylvania

1

DeSales University
Center Valley, Pennsylvania

Top 25% overall quality in Pennsylvania

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend DeSales University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Critical Care Nursing Major in Pennsylvania list. DeSales is located in Center Valley, Pennsylvania and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 9 masters’s critical care nursing degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.8% 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 Critical Care Nursing at DeSales University

2

Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences
Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Critical Care Nursing Major in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences landed the #2 spot on the list. Lancaster, Pennsylvania is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s critical care nursing degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.4% 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%.

Full PA College Critical Care Nursing Report

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Critical Care Nursing in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Critical Care Nursing

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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