Registered Nursing at Southwestern Oklahoma State University

What traits are you looking for in a registered nursing school? To help you decide if Southwestern Oklahoma State University is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's registered nursing program.

SWOSU is located in Weatherford, Oklahoma and approximately 4,898 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.

SWOSU Registered Nursing Degrees Available

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

Online Classes Are Available at SWOSU

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? SWOSU offers distance education options for registered nursing at the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Master’s Degree

SWOSU Registered Nursing Rankings

The registered nursing major at SWOSU 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 SWOSU

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

SWOSU Registered Nursing Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 10% of registered nursing bachelor's degrees went to men and 90% went to women.

About 59% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in registered nursing at SWOSU 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 Southwestern Oklahoma State University with a bachelor's in registered nursing.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	4
Black or African American	28
Hispanic or Latino	12
White	131
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	44

SWOSU Registered Nursing Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 6% of registered nursing master's degrees went to men and 94% went to women.

Of the students who received a registered nursing master's degree from SWOSU, 66% 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 Southwestern Oklahoma State University with a master's in registered nursing.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	31
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	8

Related Majors

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 OK, the home state for Southwestern Oklahoma State University.

Occupation	Jobs in OK	Average Salary in OK
Registered Nurses	29,330	$63,080
Nursing Instructors and Professors	520	$59,070

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 Jeffrey Beall under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.