Registered Nursing at University of Iowa

If you are interested in studying registered nursing, you may want to check out the program at University of Iowa. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Iowa is located in Iowa City, Iowa and approximately 30,318 students attend the school each year. Of the 215 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of Iowa in 2021, 215 of them were registered nursing majors.

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.

Iowa Registered Nursing Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Registered Nursing

Iowa Registered Nursing Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the registered nursing progam at Iowa compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The registered nursing major at Iowa 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Popular Registered Nursing Bachelor’s Degree Schools	173
Most Popular Registered Nursing Schools	270
Best Registered Nursing Bachelor’s Degree Schools	270
Best Registered Nursing Schools	378
Best Value Registered Nursing Bachelor’s Degree Schools	568
	700
Most Focused Registered Nursing Bachelor’s Degree Schools	868
Best Value Registered Nursing Schools	1,351
	1,413
Most Focused Registered Nursing Schools	1,731

Registered Nursing Student Demographics at Iowa

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

Iowa Registered Nursing Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 215 students earned a bachelor's degree in registered nursing from Iowa. About 86% of these graduates were women and the other 14% were men. The typical registered nursing bachelor's degree program is made up of only 13% men. So male students are more repesented at Iowa since its program graduates 1% more men than average.

About 83% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in registered nursing at Iowa 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 University of Iowa with a bachelor's in registered nursing.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	10
Hispanic or Latino	17
White	179
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	6

Iowa also has a doctoral program available in registered nursing. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Clinical Nurse Leader
• Nursing Science
• Adult Health Nurse/Nursing
• Family Practice Nurse/Nursing
• Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing

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 IA, the home state for University of Iowa.

Occupation	Jobs in IA	Average Salary in IA
Registered Nurses	33,770	$59,130
Nursing Instructors and Professors	760	$80,490

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 KMSatoh202 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.