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Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing at University of Pennsylvania

If you plan to study psychiatric/mental health nurse/nursing, take a look at what University of Pennsylvania has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

UPenn is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and has a total student population of 26,552.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing section at the bottom of this page.

UPenn Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing Degrees Available

  • Master’s Degree in Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing

UPenn Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing Rankings

Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Student Demographics at UPenn

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the psychiatric/mental health nursing majors at University of Pennsylvania.

UPenn Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing Master’s Program

79% Women
46% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 21% of psychiatric/mental health nursing master's degrees went to men and 79% went to women. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 17% men graduate in psychiatric/mental health nursing each year. UPenn does a better job at serving the male population as it supports 4% more men than average.

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Of the students who received a psychiatric/mental health nursing master's degree from UPenn, 54% 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 University of Pennsylvania with a master's in psychiatric/mental health nursing.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 3
Black or African American 4
Hispanic or Latino 4
White 13
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 0

Careers That Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Grads May Go Into

A degree in psychiatric/mental health 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 PA, the home state for University of Pennsylvania.

Occupation Jobs in PA Average Salary in PA
Registered Nurses 148,520 $70,390
Nurse Practitioners 7,280 $98,250
Nursing Instructors and Professors 4,010 $78,810

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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