2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nursing Practice Major in the Far Western US Region

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In 2020-2021, 7,992 people earned their degree in nursing practice, making the major the 105th most popular in the United States.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 483 nursing practice graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 36 nursing practice graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,720 and $23,024 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nursing Practice Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in nursing practice. That schools that top this list have a program in nursing practice in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nursing Practice Major in the Far Western US Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nursing Practice Major in the Far Western US Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Nursing Practice in the Far Western US Region

1

Vanguard University of Southern California
Costa Mesa, California

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nursing Practice Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Vanguard University of Southern California landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Costa Mesa, California, and it awarded 33 bachelors’s nursing practice degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 5.0% 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%.

Read full report on Nursing Practice at Vanguard University of Southern California

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Alaska Pacific University
Anchorage, Alaska

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Alaska Pacific University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nursing Practice Major in the Far Western US Region list. Anchorage, Alaska is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s nursing practice degrees to 3 students 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.

Full Alaska Pacific University Nursing Practice Report

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Nursing Practice

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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