2023 Best Nursing Master's Degree Schools in Maine
It's not easy to decide which nursing program to enroll in when you have so many options available. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Also, there are a number of trade schools and bootcamp with offerings that you might find attractive.
Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Nursing Degree Search has created the Best Nursing Master's Degree Schools in Maine to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 5 schools in Maine to see which master's degree programs offered the best educational experiences for nursing students. The factors used to develop this ranking include those related to how in-demand the school us, the overall quality of the school, and post-graduation wages, and more.
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Top Nursing Master's Degree Schools in Maine
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Our 2023 rankings named University of New England the best school in Maine for nursing students working on their master’s degree.
UNE does have options available for those who want to take online graduate classes. You will need to check with the school to see if they are available for your specific major. During the 2019-2020 year, about 50% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Husson University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Nursing Master’s Degree Schools in Maine list.
One thing to take note of is that Husson does offer online graduate classes in some areas. Of all the graduate students enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 75% took at least some of their classes online.
Out of the 5 schools in Maine that were part of this year’s ranking, Saint Joseph’s College of Maine landed the # 3 spot on the list.
Interested in an online degree? Then you definitely want to check out Saint Joseph’s Maine. Every graduate student at the school took at least one class online.
The excellent master’s degree programs at University of Maine helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best nursing schools in Maine.
UMaine does offer online graduate classes for certain degree levels. In fact, around 74% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.
A rank of #5 on this year’s list means University of Southern Maine is a great place for nursing students working on their master’s degree.
One thing to take note of is that University of Southern Maine does offer online graduate classes in some areas. To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 94% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.
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Notes and References
Footnotes
*These averages are for the top 5 schools only.
References
- Read more about our ranking methodology.
- 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 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).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
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