2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Practical Nursing Major” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants is the 187th most popular major in the country with 84,274 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, practical nursing and nursing assistants graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $36,863 and had an average of $15,708 in loans still to pay off.

At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 4 practical nursing and nursing assistants graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,260 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Practical Nursing Major” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in practical nursing and nursing assistants. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their practical nursing and nursing assistants program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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The practical 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 “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Practical Nursing Major”.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Practical Nursing Major

The colleges and universities below are the best for doctor’s degree practical nursing students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants

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Rivier University
Nashua, New Hampshire

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Practical Nursing Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Rivier University landed the #1 spot on the list. Rivier University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Nashua, New Hampshire. It awarded 4 doctorate’s practical nursing degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Rivier Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants Report

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University of Nevada - Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Nevada - Las Vegas. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Practical Nursing Major. This large school is located in Las Vegas, Nevada, and it awarded 0 doctorate’s practical nursing degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.9% 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%.

Read more about Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants at UNLV

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.