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Registered Nursing at Governors State University

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

GSU is located in University Park, Illinois and approximately 4,650 students attend the school each year.

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.

GSU Registered Nursing Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Registered Nursing

GSU Registered Nursing Rankings

The registered nursing major at GSU 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 GSU

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

GSU Registered Nursing Bachelor’s Program

78% Women
56% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 22% of registered nursing bachelor's degrees went to men and 78% went to women. The typical registered nursing bachelor's degree program is made up of only 13% men. So male students are more repesented at GSU since its program graduates 9% more men than average.

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Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 16% more racial-ethnic minorities in its registered nursing bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 0
Black or African American 2
Hispanic or Latino 3
White 2
International Students 1
Other Races/Ethnicities 1

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 IL, the home state for Governors State University.

Occupation Jobs in IL Average Salary in IL
Registered Nurses 129,400 $73,890
Nursing Instructors and Professors 1,810 $69,310

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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