by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended Practical Nursing Major in Illinois for a Bachelor’s” 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.
Across Illinois, there were 5,858 practical nursing and nursing assistants graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,292 and $11,259 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 0 practical nursing and nursing assistants graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,117 and $25,584 respectively.
To top this list, a school must have a successful practical nursing and nursing assistants program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.
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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 “Most Well Attended Practical Nursing Major in Illinois for a Bachelor’s” list to help you make the college decision.
You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Practical Nursing Major in Illinois for a Bachelor’s”.
Out of the 1 schools in the Most Well Attended Practical Nursing Major in Illinois for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Saint Xavier University landed the #1 spot on the list. SXU is located in Chicago, Illinois and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 bachelors’s practical nursing degrees to qualified students.
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