2024 Best Geriatric Nurse/Nursing Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
4Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region
59Master's Degrees
Geriatric Nurse/Nursing is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #246 most popular master's degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual looked at 4 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Geriatric Nurse/Nursing Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 59 master's degrees in geriatric nurse/nursing to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Geriatric Nurse/Nursing School for Your Master's Degree
The geriatric nursing master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality geriatric nursing program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to geriatric nurse/nursing students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other geriatric nurse/nursing students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized geriatric nurse/nursing related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for geriatric nurse/nursing students working on their master's degree.
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 Best Geriatric Nurse/Nursing Master's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list to help you make the college decision.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Geriatric Nurse/Nursing in the Middle Atlantic Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in geriatric nurse/nursing.
Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools for a Master's in Geriatric Nursing
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).