2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Nursing Practice in Pennsylvania

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nursing Practice Major in Pennsylvania” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Nursing Practice is the 105th most popular major in the country with 7,992 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Pennsylvania, there were 240 nursing practice graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 15 nursing practice graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,741 and $27,572 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nursing Practice Major in Pennsylvania” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in nursing practice. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in nursing practice.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

One Size Does Not Fit All

The nursing practice school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nursing Practice Major in Pennsylvania”.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nursing Practice Major in Pennsylvania

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

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Nursing Practice in Pennsylvania

1

Misericordia University
Dallas, Pennsylvania

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Misericordia University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nursing Practice Major in Pennsylvania list. Misericordia University is located in Dallas, Pennsylvania and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 14 bachelors’s nursing practice degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Read more about Nursing Practice at Misericordia University

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Eastern University
Saint Davids, Pennsylvania

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Eastern University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Nursing Practice Major in Pennsylvania. This small school is located in Saint Davids, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s nursing practice degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Nursing Practice at EU

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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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