2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Nursing Science in Texas

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nursing Science Major in Texas” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Nursing Science is the 162nd most popular major in the country with 4,600 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Texas, there were 47 nursing science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 2 nursing science graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,376 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nursing Science Major in Texas” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in nursing science. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their nursing science program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nursing Science Major in Texas

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Nursing Science in Texas

1

Tarleton State University
Stephenville, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tarleton State University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nursing Science Major in Texas. Tarleton is a public institution located in Stephenville, Texas. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 2 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Nursing Science at Tarleton State University

2

University of St. Thomas
Houston, Texas

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Nursing Science Major in Texas that were part of this year’s ranking, University of St. Thomas landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Houston, Texas, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 0 degrees to qualified masters’s nursing science students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full UST Nursing Science Report

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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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