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2023 Most Popular Online Nursing & Nursing Assistants Basic Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region

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With 84,274 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, practical nursing and nursing assistants is the #2 most popular major in the United States.

When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for nursing students. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Nursing Degree Search has developed this Most Popular Online Nursing & Nursing Assistants Basic Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in the Southwest Region to see which online basic certificate programs were the most popular for nursing students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from schools with online programs.

Check out the online practical nursing basic certificate programs at these schools if you want to attend one of the most popular in the Southwest Region .

#1

Arlington Career Institute

Grand Prairie, TX

Our analysis found Arlington Career Institute to be the most popular school for practical nursing and nursing assistants students who want to pursue an online basic certificate in the Southwest Region . Located in the suburb of Grand Prairie, Arlington Career Institute is a private for-profit college with a small student population.

Of the 136 students majoring in practical nursing at Arlington Career Institute, 14% are male and 86% are female.

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#2

Amarillo College

Amarillo, TX

The in-demand online basic certificate programs at Amarillo College helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best practical nursing and nursing assistants schools in the Southwest Region . Amarillo College is a medium-sized public school located in the city of Amarillo.

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Explore the most popular online practical nursing and nursing assistants colleges for a specific state in the Southwest region.

State Degrees Awarded
Arizona 57
Texas 97
New Mexico 0
Oklahoma 57

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Practical Nursing Focus Areas

Major Annual Graduates
Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse Training 44,900
Nursing Assistant/Aide and Patient Care Assistant/Aide 34,557
Other Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants 4,817

Related Major Annual Graduates
Nursing 322,592

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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