2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for School Nursing in the Plains States Region
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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 “Most Well Attended School Nursing Major in the Plains States Region for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.
School Nursing is the 581st most popular major in the country with 553 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Plains States region, there were 106 school nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 77 school nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,401 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Well Attended School Nursing Major in the Plains States Region for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in school nursing. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in school nursing.
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Most Well Attended School Nursing Major in the Plains States Region for a Master’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region master’s degree school nursing students.
Top 3 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for School Nursing in the Plains States Region
Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended School Nursing Major in the Plains States Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Maryville University of Saint Louis landed the #1 spot on the list. Maryville U is located in Saint Louis, Missouri and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 64 masters’s school nursing degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on School Nursing at Maryville U
Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended School Nursing Major in the Plains States Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, St Catherine University landed the #2 spot on the list. Saint Paul, Minnesota is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s school nursing degrees to 13 students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on School Nursing at St. Kate’s
Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended School Nursing Major in the Plains States Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Iowa landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Iowa City, Iowa, this large public school handed out 11 degrees to qualified masters’s school nursing students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read more about School Nursing at University of Iowa
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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
- *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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