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2023 Most Popular Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in New Hampshire

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$101,387 Avg Salary
$40,791 Avg Student Debt

Finding the Best Nursing Graduate Certificate School for You

Nursing is the most popular major in New Hampshire with 2,129 degrees and certificates handed out in 2021-2022.

Today's nursing students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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 Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in New Hampshire ranking. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in New Hampshire to see which graduate certificate programs were the most popular for nursing students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the Nursing program at each school on the list.

Check out the nursing graduate certificate programs at these schools if you want to attend one of the most popular in New Hampshire.

Our 2023 rankings named University of New Hampshire - Main Campus the most popular school in New Hampshire for nursing students working on their graduate certificate. UNH is a fairly large public school located in the small suburb of Durham.

Women make up 96% of the nursing majors at the school.

Read full report on Nursing at University of New Hampshire - Main Campus

#2

Rivier University

Nashua, NH

Out of the 3 schools in New Hampshire that were part of this year’s ranking, Rivier University landed the # 2 spot on the list. Rivier is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Nashua.

Of the 13 students majoring in nursing at Rivier, 15% are male and 85% are female.

Read full report on Nursing at Rivier University

Out of the 3 schools in New Hampshire that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern New Hampshire University landed the # 3 spot on the list. SNHU is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of Manchester.

Women make up 71% of the nursing majors at the school.

Full Nursing at Southern New Hampshire University Report

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State Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts 6,626
Vermont 390
Connecticut 3,058
Maine 1,262
Rhode Island 1,091

Nursing Focus Areas

Major Annual Graduates
Registered Nursing 262,974
Family Practice Nurse/Nursing 16,647
Nursing Practice 8,862
Nursing Administration 8,663
Other Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing 4,717
Nursing Science 4,701
Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing 2,895
Adult Health Nurse/Nursing 2,075
Public Health/Community Nurse/Nursing 2,011
Nurse Anesthetist 1,768
Critical Care Nursing 747
Geriatric Nurse/Nursing 622
Nurse Midwife/Nursing Midwifery 567
School Nursing 539
Clinical Nurse Leader 502
Clinical Nurse Specialist 340
Perioperative/Operating Room and Surgical Nurse/Nursing 269
Women’s Health Nurse/Nursing 262
Maternal/Child Health and Neonatal Nurse/Nursing 192
Emergency Room/Trauma Nursing 87
Occupational and Environmental Health Nursing 26
Forensic Nursing 23
Palliative Care Nursing 13

Majors Similar to Nursing

Related Major Annual Graduates
Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants 85,339

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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Aleksahgabrielle.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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