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2023 Most Popular Online Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in Virginia

2 Schools Ranked
$40,002 Avg Student Debt

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. Or you may find the programs at a trade school or bootcamp to be a better alternative for you.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Nursing Degree Search has created the Most Popular Online Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in Virginia to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Virginia to see which online graduate certificate programs were the most popular 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

Liberty University

Lynchburg, Virginia
1,713 Total Awards
$8,405 Average Tuition & Fees
$39,492 Avg Student Debt

Our 2023 rankings named Liberty University the most popular school in Virginia for nursing students working on their graduate certificate. Located in Lynchburg, Virginia, the large private not-for-profit school handed out 1,713 graduate certificate awards in 2021-2022.

By the time they get their graduate certificate, students from this school have racked up an average of $39,492 in student loans. Of those students who received their degree, 59% were women.

During the 2020-2021 year, about 97% of the graduate students at the school took at least one online course.

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#2

Eastern Mennonite University

Harrisonburg, Virginia
68 Total Awards
$15,270 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent graduate certificate programs at Eastern Mennonite University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular nursing schools in Virginia. Located in Harrisonburg, Virginia, the small private not-for-profit school awarded 68 diplomas to qualifed graduate certificate students in 2021-2022.

Around 93% of those degree recipients were women.

To give an idea of how popular online courses are at the school, 73% of graduates took at least one course online in 2020-2021.

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Notes and References

Footnotes

*These averages are for the top 2 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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