Nursing at East Carolina University

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

ECU is located in Greenville, North Carolina and approximately 28,798 students attend the school each year.

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

ECU Nursing Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing
• Master’s Degree in Nursing

ECU Nursing Rankings

The nursing major at ECU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for 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.

There were 51 students who received their doctoral degrees in nursing, making the school the #53 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Nursing Student Demographics at ECU

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

ECU Nursing Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 11% of nursing bachelor's degrees went to men and 89% went to women.

About 72% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in nursing at ECU are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	9
Black or African American	33
Hispanic or Latino	29
White	254
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	24

ECU Nursing Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 12% of nursing master's degrees went to men and 88% went to women.

Of the students who received a nursing master's degree from ECU, 77% 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 East Carolina University with a master's in nursing.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	9
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	53
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

Concentrations Within Nursing

The following nursing concentations are available at East Carolina University. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from East Carolina University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Registered Nursing	423
Nursing Practice	43
Nursing Science	8
Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing	5
Nursing Administration	1
Family Practice Nurse/Nursing	1
Maternal/Child Health and Neonatal Nurse/Nursing	1

Related Majors

Careers That Nursing Grads May Go Into

A degree in 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 East Carolina University.

Occupation	Jobs in NC	Average Salary in NC
Registered Nurses	102,500	$64,850
Medical and Health Services Managers	9,230	$117,650
Nurse Practitioners	4,760	$104,100
Nurse Anesthetists	3,050	$178,250
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 Luca Masters under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.