2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Nurse Anesthetist in Minnesota

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nurse Anesthetist Major in Minnesota” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 1,936 people earned their degree in nurse anesthetist, making the major the 292nd most popular in the United States.

Across Minnesota, there were 89 nurse anesthetist graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 63 nurse anesthetist graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,734 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nurse Anesthetist Major in Minnesota” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in nurse anesthetist. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their nurse anesthetist program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nurse Anesthetist Major in Minnesota

The colleges and universities below are the best for minnesota master’s degree nurse anesthetist students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Nurse Anesthetist in Minnesota

1

Saint Mary's University of Minnesota
Winona, Minnesota

#9 overall quality in Minnesota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nurse Anesthetist Major in Minnesota. SMU MN is a private not-for-profit institution located in Winona, Minnesota. The school has a small population, and it awarded 63 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.0% 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 SMU MN Nurse Anesthetist Report

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Metropolitan State University
Saint Paul, Minnesota

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Metropolitan State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nurse Anesthetist Major in Minnesota list. Saint Paul, Minnesota is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s nurse anesthetist degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Nurse Anesthetist at Metropolitan State 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

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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