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Registered Nursing at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University

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

SUNY Downstate is located in Brooklyn, New York and approximately 2,118 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.

SUNY Downstate Registered Nursing Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Registered Nursing

SUNY Downstate Registered Nursing Rankings

The registered nursing major at SUNY Downstate 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 SUNY Downstate

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the registered nursing majors at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University.

SUNY Downstate Registered Nursing Bachelor’s Program

82% Women
54% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 18% of registered nursing bachelor's degrees went to men and 82% 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 SUNY Downstate since its program graduates 5% more men than average.

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Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 14% 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 SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University with a bachelor's in registered nursing.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 17
Black or African American 34
Hispanic or Latino 12
White 44
International Students 1
Other Races/Ethnicities 11

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 NY, the home state for SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University.

Occupation Jobs in NY Average Salary in NY
Registered Nurses 182,490 $85,610
Nursing Instructors and Professors 4,380 $91,900

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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