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2023 Most Popular Online Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in Louisiana

4 Schools Ranked
$61,509 Avg Student Debt

There are so many nursing programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one 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. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools and bootcamps that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Nursing Degree Search has developed this Most Popular Online Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in Louisiana ranking. This report analyzed 4 schools in Louisiana to see which ones had the most popular online graduate certificate programs for nursing students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from schools with online programs.

Learn more about these popular schools with online programs:

#1

University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Lafayette, Louisiana
13 Total Awards
$10,156 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named University of Louisiana at Lafayette the most popular school in Louisiana for nursing students working on their graduate certificate. Lafayette, Louisiana is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out graduate certificates to 13 students in 2021-2022.

Around 92% of those degree recipients were women.

Of all the graduate students enrolled at the school during the 2020-2021 academic year, around 55% took at least some of their classes online.

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#2

McNeese State University

Lake Charles, Louisiana
19 Total Awards
$8,458 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend McNeese State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Popular Online Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in Louisiana list. Located in Lake Charles, Louisiana, the medium-sized public school handed out 19 graduate certificate awards in 2021-2022.

Of those students who received their degree, 95% were women.

During the 2020-2021 year, about 75% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.

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#2

Southeastern Louisiana University

Hammond, Louisiana
10 Total Awards
$8,830 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southeastern Louisiana University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Popular Online Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in Louisiana list. Southeastern is a fairly large public school situated in Hammond, Louisiana. It awarded 10 graduate certificates in 2021-2022.

Around 90% of those degree recipients were women.

Around 45% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2020-2021.

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#4

Loyola University New Orleans

New Orleans, Louisiana
17 Total Awards
$19,791 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent graduate certificate programs at Loyola University New Orleans helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular nursing schools in Louisiana. Located in New Orleans, Louisiana, the small private not-for-profit school handed out 17 graduate certificate awards in 2021-2022.

Around 100% of those degree recipients were women.

Around 59% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2020-2021.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*These averages are for the top 4 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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