2024 Best Registered Nursing Schools in the New England Region
91Colleges in the New England Region
11,319Registered Nursing Degrees Awarded
If you pursue a degree in registered nursing, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #3 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
College Factual looked at 91 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Registered Nursing Schools in the New England Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 11,319 degrees in registered nursing during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Your choice of registered nursing school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for registered nursing schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
The registered nursing 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 Registered Nursing Schools in the New England Region.
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Best Schools for Registered Nursing in the New England Region
The schools below may not offer all types of registered nursing degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer. Only those schools that rank in the top 15% of all the schools we analyze get awarded with a place on this list.
13 Top New England Region Schools in Registered Nursing
Any student pursuing a degree in registered nursing has to look into Yale University. Located in the medium-sized city of New Haven, Yale is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #8 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Yale is a great university overall.
There were roughly 131 registered nursing students who graduated with this degree at Yale in the most recent data year.
University of Connecticut is a good option for students interested in a degree in registered nursing. Located in the suburb of Storrs, UCONN is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #86 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means UCONN is a great university overall.
There were roughly 253 registered nursing students who graduated with this degree at UCONN in the most recent data year.
Fairfield University is a wonderful choice for students interested in a degree in registered nursing. Fairfield U is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Fairfield. A Best Colleges rank of #163 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Fairfield U is a great university overall.
There were roughly 194 registered nursing students who graduated with this degree at Fairfield U in the most recent data year.
Simmons University is a wonderful option for students pursuing a degree in registered nursing. Simmons is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit university located in the city of Boston. A Best Colleges rank of #90 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Simmons is a great university overall.
There were approximately 159 registered nursing students who graduated with this degree at Simmons in the most recent year we have data available.
Northeastern is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Boston. A Best Colleges rank of #59 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Northeastern is a great university overall.
There were roughly 200 registered nursing students who graduated with this degree at Northeastern in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the suburb of Kingston, URI is a public university with a large student population. This university ranks 4th out of 9 schools for overall quality in the state of Rhode Island.
There were approximately 349 registered nursing students who graduated with this degree at URI in the most recent data year.
Boston College is a fairly large private not-for-profit college located in the city of Chestnut Hill. A Best Colleges rank of #60 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Boston College is a great college overall.
There were approximately 104 registered nursing students who graduated with this degree at Boston College in the most recent data year.
Located in the suburb of Amherst, UMass Amherst is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #81 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means UMass Amherst is a great university overall.
There were approximately 173 registered nursing students who graduated with this degree at UMass Amherst in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the small suburb of Durham, UNH is a public university with a large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #233 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means UNH is a great university overall.
There were roughly 106 registered nursing students who graduated with this degree at UNH in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the medium-sized city of Worcester, Quinsigamond Community College is a public college with a moderately-sized student population. This college ranks 42nd out of 63 schools for overall quality in the state of Massachusetts.
There were about 117 registered nursing students who graduated with this degree at Quinsigamond Community College in the most recent data year.
Sacred Heart is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Fairfield. This university ranks 9th out of 28 schools for overall quality in the state of Connecticut.
There were about 330 registered nursing students who graduated with this degree at Sacred Heart in the most recent data year.
Here are some additional great schools for Registered Nursing students in the New England Region that almost earned our Best Registered Nursing Schools in the New England Region award.
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).
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Your choice of registered nursing school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for registered nursing schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
