2023 Most Well Attended Critical Care Nursing Major in the Southeast Region
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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Critical Care Nursing Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Critical Care Nursing is the 529th most popular major in the country with 773 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southeast region, there were 140 critical care nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Well Attended Critical Care Nursing Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in critical care nursing. To top this list, a school must have a successful critical care nursing program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.
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Most Well Attended Critical Care Nursing Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region critical care nursing students.
Top 4 Most Popular Colleges for Critical Care Nursing in the Southeast Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of South Carolina - Columbia. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Critical Care Nursing Major in the Southeast Region. University of South Carolina - Columbia is a public institution located in Columbia, South Carolina. The school has a large population, and it awarded 42 ’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.1% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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Out of the 4 schools in the Most Well Attended Critical Care Nursing Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Vanderbilt University landed the #2 spot on the list. Nashville, Tennessee is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s critical care nursing degrees to 42 students in 2020-2021.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%.
Read more about Critical Care Nursing at Vanderbilt University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Barry University. The school came in at #3 for the Most Well Attended Critical Care Nursing Major in the Southeast Region. Miami, Florida is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s critical care nursing degrees to 34 students in 2020-2021.
Read more about Critical Care Nursing at Barry University
Out of the 4 schools in the Most Well Attended Critical Care Nursing Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Adventist University landed the #4 spot on the list. Collegedale, Tennessee is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s critical care nursing degrees to 10 students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Critical Care Nursing at Southern Adventist University
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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
- *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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