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Most Popular Nursing & Nursing Assistants Associate Degree Schools in New Mexico

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2023 Most Popular Nursing & Nursing Assistants Associate Degree Schools in New Mexico

3 Colleges
$41,222 Avg Salary
$20,983 Avg Student Debt

Finding the Best Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants Associate Degree School for You

It's not easy to decide which nursing program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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 assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Nursing Degree Search has created its Most Popular Nursing & Nursing Assistants Associate Degree Schools in New Mexico ranking. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in New Mexico to see which associate degree programs were the most popular for nursing students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants program at each school on the list.

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

Our 2023 rankings named New Mexico State University - Carlsbad the most popular school in New Mexico for practical nursing and nursing assistants students working on their associate degree. Located in the rural area of Carlsbad, NMSU Carlsbad is a public school with a small student population.

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Our 2023 rankings named New Mexico Junior College the most popular school in New Mexico for practical nursing and nursing assistants students working on their associate degree. Located in the town of Hobbs, New Mexico Junior College is a public school with a small student population.

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Our 2023 rankings named New Mexico State University - Dona Ana the most popular school in New Mexico for practical nursing and nursing assistants students working on their associate degree. Located in the rural area of Las Cruces, NMSU Dona Ana is a public college with a medium-sized student population.

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Explore all the Most Popular Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants Colleges in the Southwest Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Arizona 57
Texas 97
Oklahoma 57

Practical Nursing Concentrations

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

Majors Similar to Practical Nursing

Related Major Annual Graduates
Nursing 322,592

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 3 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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