2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Nursing Practice in Connecticut

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Well Attended Nursing Practice Major in Connecticut for a Master’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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

Across Connecticut, there were 85 nursing practice graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 63 nursing practice graduates with average earnings and debt of $65,328 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Nursing Practice Major in Connecticut for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in nursing practice. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular nursing practice programs in the United States.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Nursing Practice Major in Connecticut for a Master’s

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

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Nursing Practice in Connecticut

1

University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut

#4 overall quality in Connecticut

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Nursing Practice Major in Connecticut for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Connecticut landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Connecticut is a large school located in Storrs, Connecticut that handed out 57 masters’s nursing practice degrees 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 undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Nursing Practice at University of Connecticut

2

Central Connecticut State University
New Britain, Connecticut

#10 overall quality in Connecticut

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Central Connecticut State University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Nursing Practice Major in Connecticut for a Master’s. CCSU is a medium-sized public school situated in New Britain, Connecticut. It awarded 6 masters’s nursing practice degrees in 2020-2021.

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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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