2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nursing Practice Major in Georgia

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nursing Practice Major in Georgia” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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

Across Georgia, there were 276 nursing practice graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 41 nursing practice graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,186 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nursing Practice Major in Georgia” 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Nursing Practice Major in Georgia

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

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

1

South University's online programs
Savannah, Georgia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend South University’s online programs. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nursing Practice Major in Georgia. South University’s online programs is a medium-sized school located in Savannah, Georgia that handed out 16 masters’s nursing practice degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Nursing Practice at South University’s online programs

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Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia

#2 overall quality in Georgia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Emory University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nursing Practice Major in Georgia list. Located in Atlanta, Georgia, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 25 diplomas to qualified masters’s nursing practice students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read full report on Nursing Practice at Emory University

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Nursing Practice in the Southeast Region
• Most Focused Master’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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