2024 Best Nursing Science Master's Degree Schools in Massachusetts
3Colleges in Massachusetts
78Master's Degrees
If you pursue a master's degree in nursing science, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #111 most popular program in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Nursing Science Master's Degree Schools in Massachusetts ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 78 master's degrees in nursing science during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Nursing Science School for Your Master's Degree
The nursing science master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality nursing science program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on nursing science students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of nursing science students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized nursing science related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for nursing science students working on their master's degree.
The nursing science 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 the Best Nursing Science Master's Degree Schools in Massachusetts.
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Featured Nursing Science Programs
Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).