Registered Nursing at East Carolina University

If you plan to study registered 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 has a total student population of 28,798.

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.

ECU Registered Nursing Degrees Available

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

Online Classes Are Available at ECU

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.

ECU does offer online education options in registered nursing for the following degree levels for those interested in distance learning:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Master’s Degree

ECU Registered Nursing Rankings

The registered nursing major at ECU 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.

Registered Nursing Student Demographics at ECU

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

ECU Registered Nursing Bachelor’s Program

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

About 72% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in registered 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 registered 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 Registered Nursing Master’s Program

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

Of the students who received a registered 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 registered 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

Related Majors

• Nursing Administration
• Family Practice Nurse/Nursing
• Maternal/Child Health and Neonatal Nurse/Nursing
• Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing
• Nursing Science

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 East Carolina 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 Luca Masters under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.