2023 Most Popular 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 “Most Well Attended Practical Nursing Major for a Doctorate” 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.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Practical Nursing Major for a Doctorate” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in practical nursing and nursing assistants. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in practical nursing and nursing assistants.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Practical Nursing Major for a Doctorate

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

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

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Rivier University
Nashua, New Hampshire

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rivier University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Practical Nursing Major for a Doctorate list. Nashua, New Hampshire is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s practical nursing degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.4% 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 Rivier University

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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 Most Well Attended Practical Nursing Major for a Doctorate. Located in Las Vegas, Nevada, this large public school awarded 0 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s practical nursing students 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.