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2023 Most Popular Nursing & Nursing Assistants Doctor's Degree Schools

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$33,984 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants Doctor's Degree School for You

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.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which nursing program is right for you. 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 Doctor's Degree Schools ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in the United States to see which ones were the most popular doctor's degree programs 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 Doctor's Degree Colleges.

#1

Rivier University

Nashua, NH

Our analysis found Rivier University to be the most popular school for practical nursing and nursing assistants students who want to pursue a doctor’s degree in the United States. Located in the small city of Nashua, Rivier is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

Read full report on Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants at Rivier University

The in-demand doctor’s degree programs at University of Nevada - Las Vegas helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular practical nursing and nursing assistants schools in the United States. UNLV is a fairly large public school located in the city of Las Vegas.

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Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants by Region

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Region
Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Great Lakes

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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