2023 Most Well Attended Geriatric Nursing Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Doctorate

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Geriatric Nurse/Nursing is the 584th most popular major in the country with 563 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 213 geriatric nurse/nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 3 geriatric nurse/nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,305 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Geriatric Nursing Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Doctorate” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in geriatric nurse/nursing. To top this list, a school must have a successful geriatric nurse/nursing program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Geriatric Nursing Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Doctorate

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region doctor’s degree geriatric nursing students.

Top 2 Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Geriatric Nurse/Nursing in the Great Lakes Region

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University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, Michigan

#4 overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Geriatric Nursing Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Doctorate list. Ann Arbor, Michigan is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s geriatric nursing degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.3% 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%.

Read more about Geriatric Nurse/Nursing at U-M

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Saint Mary's College
Notre Dame, Indiana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Saint Mary’s College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Geriatric Nursing Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Doctorate list. St. Mary’s College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Notre Dame, Indiana. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Geriatric Nurse/Nursing at St. Mary’s College

• Most Popular Doctor’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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