2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Geriatric Nursing Major in the New England Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Geriatric Nursing Major in the New England Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2020-2021, 563 people earned their degree in geriatric nurse/nursing, making the major the 584th most popular in the United States.

Across the New England region, there were 35 geriatric nurse/nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 23 geriatric nurse/nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Geriatric Nursing Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in geriatric nurse/nursing. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in geriatric nurse/nursing.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Geriatric Nursing Major in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Geriatric Nursing Major in the New England Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Geriatric Nurse/Nursing in the New England Region

1

Rhode Island College
Providence, Rhode Island

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rhode Island College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Geriatric Nursing Major in the New England Region list. Rhode Island College is a medium-sized school located in Providence, Rhode Island that handed out 22 masters’s geriatric nursing degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Geriatric Nurse/Nursing at Rhode Island College

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University of Southern Maine
Portland, Maine

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Geriatric Nursing Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Southern Maine landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Portland, Maine, this medium-sized public school handed out 1 degrees to qualified masters’s geriatric nursing students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Geriatric Nurse/Nursing at University of Southern Maine

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Geriatric Nurse/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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