2023 Most Well Attended Practical Nursing Major for a Master’s

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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 master’s degree level specifically, there were 0 practical nursing and nursing assistants graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,425 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Practical Nursing Major for a Master’s” 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.

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Most Well Attended Practical Nursing Major for a Master’s

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

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

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Barry University
Miami, Florida

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Barry University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Practical Nursing Major for a Master’s. This medium-sized school is located in Miami, Florida, and it awarded 0 masters’s practical nursing degrees in 2020-2021.

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Holy Names University
Oakland, California

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Holy Names University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Practical Nursing Major for a Master’s. Holy Names University is located in Oakland, California and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 masters’s practical nursing degrees to qualified students.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full HNU Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants Report

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.