Critical Care Nursing at DeSales University

If you plan to study critical care nursing, take a look at what DeSales University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

DeSales is located in Center Valley, Pennsylvania and has a total student population of 3,302.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Critical Care Nursing section at the bottom of this page.

DeSales Critical Care Nursing Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Critical Care Nursing

Online Classes Are Available at DeSales

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? DeSales offers distance education options for critical care nursing at the following degree levels:

• Master’s Degree

DeSales Critical Care Nursing Rankings

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Critical Care Nursing Student Demographics at DeSales

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the critical care nursing majors at DeSales University.

DeSales Critical Care Nursing Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 44% of critical care nursing master's degrees went to men and 56% went to women. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 17% men graduate in critical care nursing each year. DeSales does a better job at serving the male population as it supports 27% more men than average.

Of the students who received a critical care nursing master's degree from DeSales, 78% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from DeSales University with a master's in critical care nursing.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	7
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Related Majors

• Nursing Administration
• Other Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing
• Clinical Nurse Specialist
• Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing
• Family Practice Nurse/Nursing

Careers That Critical Care Nursing Grads May Go Into

A degree in critical care nursing can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for PA, the home state for DeSales University.

Occupation	Jobs in PA	Average Salary in PA
Registered Nurses	148,520	$70,390
Nurse Practitioners	7,280	$98,250

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online

More about our data sources and methodologies.