2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Registered Nursing in the Southwest Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Registered Nursing Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Registered Nursing is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 3rd of all the majors we analyze. In 2020-2021, 266,651 degrees were awarded to students with this major.

Across the Southwest region, there were 33,529 registered nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 14 registered nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,218 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Registered Nursing Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in registered nursing. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their registered nursing program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

More Ways to Rank Registered Nursing Schools

When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Registered Nursing Major in the Southwest Region” list to help you make the college decision.

To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.

Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Registered Nursing Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Registered Nursing Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Registered Nursing in the Southwest Region

1

University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona

#19 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Arizona. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Registered Nursing Major in the Southwest Region list. This large school is located in Tucson, Arizona, and it awarded 14 doctorate’s registered nursing degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

Full University of Arizona Registered Nursing Report

2

Oral Roberts University
Tulsa, Oklahoma

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Oral Roberts University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Registered Nursing Major in the Southwest Region. ORU is a small school located in Tulsa, Oklahoma that handed out 48 doctorate’s registered nursing degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Registered Nursing at Oral Roberts University

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Registered Nursing

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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