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2023 Most Popular Online Nursing Associate Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region

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$57,601 Avg Salary
$21,889 Avg Student Debt

Nursing is the most popular major in the United States with 27,247 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021.

With all the nursing programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Nursing Degree Search has created the Most Popular Online Nursing Associate Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 1 school in the Rocky Mountains Region offering online associate degree programs for nursing students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from schools with online programs.

The following school tops our list of the Most Popular Online Nursing Associate Degree Colleges.

Our 2023 rankings named Utah Valley University the most popular online school in the Rocky Mountains Region for nursing students working on their associate degree. Located in the small city of Orem, UVU is a public college with a fairly large student population.

Of the 104 students majoring in nursing at UVU, 21% are male and 79% are female.

On average, nursing graduates from UVU take out $15,279 in student loans while working on their Associate Degree.

Read full report on Nursing at Utah Valley University

Explore the most popular online nursing colleges for a specific state in the Rocky Mountains region.

State Degrees Awarded
Colorado 6,496
Utah 17,535
Montana 745
Idaho 1,593
Wyoming 397

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Nursing Concentrations

Major Annual Graduates
Registered Nursing 266,651
Family Practice Nurse/Nursing 16,104
Nursing Administration 9,838
Nursing Practice 7,992
Other Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing 5,092
Nursing Science 4,600
Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing 2,287
Adult Health Nurse/Nursing 2,021
Nurse Anesthetist 1,936
Public Health/Community Nurse/Nursing 1,883
Critical Care Nursing 773
Geriatric Nurse/Nursing 563
School Nursing 553
Nurse Midwife/Nursing Midwifery 509
Clinical Nurse Leader 444
Clinical Nurse Specialist 419
Perioperative/Operating Room and Surgical Nurse/Nursing 331
Maternal/Child Health and Neonatal Nurse/Nursing 181
Occupational and Environmental Health Nursing 57
Emergency Room/Trauma Nursing 53
Palliative Care Nursing 14
Forensic Nursing 14

Related Major Annual Graduates
Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants 84,274

Notes and References

*These values are for the top school 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Aleksahgabrielle.

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