2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Nursing Practice in Florida

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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 Florida, there were 572 nursing practice graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 39 nursing practice graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,198 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nursing Practice Major in Florida” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in nursing practice. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their nursing practice program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nursing Practice Major in Florida

The colleges and universities below are the best for florida master’s degree nursing practice students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Nursing Practice in Florida

1

Palm Beach Atlantic University
West Palm Beach, Florida

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Palm Beach Atlantic University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nursing Practice Major in Florida list. Palm Beach Atlantic University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in West Palm Beach, Florida. It awarded 18 masters’s nursing practice degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Palm Beach Atlantic Nursing Practice Report

2

Florida Southern College
Lakeland, Florida

#25 overall quality in Florida

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Florida Southern College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nursing Practice Major in Florida list. This small school is located in Lakeland, Florida, and it awarded 21 masters’s nursing practice degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Nursing Practice at Florida Southern College

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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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