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

2 Colleges
$35,909 Avg Salary
$13,948 Avg Student Debt

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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Nursing Degree Search has created the Most Popular Online Nursing & Nursing Assistants Schools in the Southwest Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in the Southwest Region to see which online programs were the most popular for nursing students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from schools with online programs.

The following schools top our list of the Most Popular Online Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants Colleges.

#1

Arlington Career Institute

Grand Prairie, TX

Our 2023 rankings named Arlington Career Institute the most popular online school in the Southwest Region for practical nursing and nursing assistants students. Located in the suburb of Grand Prairie, Arlington Career Institute is a private for-profit school with a small student population.

Full Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants at Arlington Career Institute Report

#2

Amarillo College

Amarillo, TX

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Amarillo College is a great place for practical nursing and nursing assistants students pursuing an online degree. Amarillo College is a medium-sized public school located in the city of Amarillo.

Practical Nursing majors at Amarillo College take out an average of $13,682 in student loans while working on their egree.

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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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