Registered Nursing at Duke University

If you are interested in studying registered nursing, you may want to check out the program at Duke University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Duke is located in Durham, North Carolina and approximately 16,172 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 147 students received a bachelor's degree in registered nursing from Duke.

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

Duke Registered Nursing Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Registered Nursing

Duke Registered Nursing Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks registered nursing programs across the country. The following shows how Duke performed in these rankings.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The registered nursing major at Duke is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Registered Nursing. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Best Registered Nursing Bachelor’s Degree Schools	43
Best Registered Nursing Schools	72
Most Popular Registered Nursing Bachelor’s Degree Schools	299
	325
Most Popular Registered Nursing Schools	473
	753
Best Value Registered Nursing Bachelor’s Degree Schools	820
Most Focused Registered Nursing Bachelor’s Degree Schools	870
Best Value Registered Nursing Schools	1,595
Most Focused Registered Nursing Schools	1,732

Registered Nursing Student Demographics at Duke

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the registered nursing majors at Duke University.

Duke Registered Nursing Bachelor’s Program

The registered nursing program at Duke awarded 147 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 10% of these degrees went to men with the other 90% going to women.

About 63% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in registered nursing at Duke are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Duke University with a bachelor's in registered nursing.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	15
Black or African American	12
Hispanic or Latino	12
White	92
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	14

Duke also has a doctoral program available in registered nursing. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Critical Care Nursing
• Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing
• Maternal/Child Health and Neonatal Nurse/Nursing
• Nursing Science
• Nurse Anesthetist

Careers That Registered Nursing Grads May Go Into

A degree in registered 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 NC, the home state for Duke University.

Occupation	Jobs in NC	Average Salary in NC
Registered Nurses	102,500	$64,850
Nursing Instructors and Professors	2,170	$68,710

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
• Image Credit: By Bjoertvedt under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.