by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Nursing Major in Montana for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
With 322,592 degrees handed out in 2020-2021, nursing is the 3rd most popular major in the United States. In 2019-2020, nursing graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $70,916 and had an average of $25,426 in loans still to pay off.
Across Montana, there were 745 nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $67,171 and $27,084 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 482 nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,324 and $24,992 respectively.
This year’s “Most Well Attended Nursing Major in Montana for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 7 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in nursing. To top this list, a school must have a successful nursing program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Most Well Attended Nursing Major in Montana for a Bachelor’s” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for montana bachelor’s degree nursing students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Montana State University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Nursing Major in Montana for a Bachelor’s list. Montana State University is located in Bozeman, Montana and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 243 bachelors’s nursing degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 7 schools in the Most Well Attended Nursing Major in Montana for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Providence landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Great Falls, Montana, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 113 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s nursing students in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Out of the 7 schools in the Most Well Attended Nursing Major in Montana for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Carroll College landed the #3 spot on the list. Carroll Montana is located in Helena, Montana and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 43 bachelors’s nursing degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Montana Technological University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Nursing Major in Montana for a Bachelor’s list. Butte, Montana is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s nursing degrees to 38 students in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Montana State University - Billings. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Nursing Major in Montana for a Bachelor’s list. Montana State University - Billings is located in Billings, Montana and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 18 bachelors’s nursing degrees to qualified students.
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Montana State University - Northern landed the #6 spot on the 2023 Most Well Attended Nursing Major in Montana for a Bachelor’s ranking. This small school is located in Havre, Montana, and it awarded 17 bachelors’s nursing degrees in 2020-2021.
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Salish Kootenai College landed the #7 spot on the 2023 Most Well Attended Nursing Major in Montana for a Bachelor’s ranking. This small school is located in Pablo, Montana, and it awarded 10 bachelors’s nursing degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
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