2023 Most Popular Online Nursing Doctor's Degree Schools in Arizona
It's not easy to decide which nursing program to enroll in when you have so many options available. As online education opportunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also there are many trade schools and bootcamps 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 Doctor's Degree Schools in Arizona to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 5 schools in Arizona to see which online doctor's degree programs were the most popular 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 Arizona
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Our analysis found Grand Canyon University to be the most popular school for nursing students who want to pursue a doctor’s degree in Arizona. Grand Canyon University is a private for-profit institution located in Phoenix, Arizona. The school has a large population, and it awarded 368 doctor’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Around 90% of those degree recipients were women.
In 2019-2020 about 96% of the graduate students at the school chose to take one or more online courses.
The excellent doctor’s degree programs at Aspen University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular nursing schools in Arizona. Located in Denver, Arizona, the medium-sized private for-profit school handed out 25 doctor’s degree awards in 2020-2021.
Of those students who received their degree, 84% were women.
Since the graduate programs at Aspen University are primarily online school, so it is a great choice for returning adults and students who work full time.
A rank of #3 on this year’s list means Midwestern University - Glendale is a great place for nursing students working on their doctor’s degree. Midwestern University - Glendale is a small private not-for-profit school located in Glendale, Arizona that handed out 20 doctor’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Of those students who received their degree, 60% were women.
To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 1% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.
You’ll be in good company if you attend University of Phoenix - Arizona. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Most Popular Online Nursing Doctor’s Degree Schools in Arizona list. UOPX - Arizona is a private for-profit institution located in Tempe, Arizona. The school has a large population, and it awarded 14 doctor’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Around 93% of those degree recipients were women.
To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 99% of graduates took at least one course online in 2019-2020.
You’ll be in good company if you attend Northern Arizona University. The school came in at #5 on this year’s Most Popular Online Nursing Doctor’s Degree Schools in Arizona list. This large public school is located in Flagstaff, Arizona, and it awarded 4 doctor’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Around 100% of those degree recipients were women.
Of all the graduate students enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 54% took at least some of their classes online.
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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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