2023 Most Popular Online Nursing Doctor's Degree Schools in Georgia
When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for nursing students. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school or bootcamp that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.
Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Nursing Degree Search has created the Most Popular Online Nursing Doctor's Degree Schools in Georgia to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 5 schools in Georgia to see which ones had the most popular online doctor's degree programs for nursing students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from schools with online programs.
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Most Popular Online Nursing Doctor's Degree Schools in Georgia
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Our analysis found South University’s online programs to be the most popular school for nursing students who want to pursue a doctor’s degree in Georgia. Located in Savannah, Georgia, the medium-sized private for-profit school awarded 45 diplomas to qualifed doctor’s degree students in 2020-2021.
Around 100% of those degree recipients were women.
Since the graduate programs at South University’s online programs are primarily online school, so it is a great choice for returning adults and students who work full time.
A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Georgia State University is a great place for nursing students working on their doctor’s degree. Georgia State is located in Atlanta, Georgia and has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 16 doctor’s degrees to qualified students.
Around 100% of those degree recipients were women.
Of all the graduate students enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 71% took at least some of their classes online.
The excellent doctor’s degree programs at Georgia College & State University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular nursing schools in Georgia. This medium-sized public school is located in Milledgeville, Georgia, and it awarded 13 doctor’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Around 100% of those degree recipients were women.
To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 96% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Georgia Southern University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Most Popular Online Nursing Doctor’s Degree Schools in Georgia list. Georgia Southern University is a large public school located in Statesboro, Georgia that handed out 12 doctor’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Around 92% of those degree recipients were women.
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 North Georgia is a great place for nursing students working on their doctor’s degree. University of North Georgia is a fairly large public school located in Dahlonega, Georgia that handed out 5 doctor’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Around 80% of those degree recipients were women.
Around 66% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.
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Notes and References
Footnotes
*These averages are for the top 5 schools only.
References
- 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%.
More about our data sources and methodologies.
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