2023 Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Nursing Administration in the Southwest Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Well Attended Nursing Administration Major in the Southwest Region for a Doctorate” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Nursing Administration is the 85th most popular major in the country with 9,838 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 1,678 nursing administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 4 nursing administration graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,218 and $0 respectively.

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

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Most Well Attended Nursing Administration Major in the Southwest Region for a Doctorate

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Nursing Administration Major in the Southwest Region for a Doctorate”.

Top 2 Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Nursing Administration in the Southwest Region

1

Aspen University
Denver, Colorado

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Aspen University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Nursing Administration Major in the Southwest Region for a Doctorate list. Aspen University is a private for-profit institution located in Denver, Colorado. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 25 doctorate’s degrees 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 undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 5.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Nursing Administration at Aspen University

2

Texas Christian University
Fort Worth, Texas

#11 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Christian University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Nursing Administration Major in the Southwest Region for a Doctorate list. TCU is located in Fort Worth, Texas and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 4 doctorate’s nursing administration degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, 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 92%.

Read more about Nursing Administration at TCU

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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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