2023 Most Popular Nursing Doctor's Degree Schools in Rhode Island
It's not easy to decide which nursing program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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. 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 Nursing Doctor's Degree Schools in Rhode Island to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Rhode Island to see which doctor's degree programs were the most popular for nursing students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from each school on the list.
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Most Popular Nursing Doctor's Degree Schools in Rhode Island
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Our analysis found Salve Regina University to be the most popular school for nursing students who want to pursue a doctor’s degree in Rhode Island. Salve Regina is a private not-for-profit institution located in Newport, Rhode Island. The school has a small population, and it awarded 8 doctor’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Around 88% of those degree recipients were women.
Salve Regina does offer online graduate classes for certain degree levels. In fact, around 91% of the graduate population registered for at least one online class in 2019-2020.
You’ll be in good company if you attend Rhode Island College. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Most Popular Nursing Doctor’s Degree Schools in Rhode Island list. RIC is a medium-sized public school situated in Providence, Rhode Island. It awarded 3 doctor’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Of those students who received their degree, 100% were women.
One thing to take note of is that RIC does offer online graduate classes in some areas. Of all the graduate students enrolled at the school during the 2019-2020 academic year, around 99% took at least some of their classes online.
Out of the 3 schools in Rhode Island that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Rhode Island landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in Kingston, Rhode Island, the fairly large public school handed out 3 doctor’s degree awards in 2020-2021.
Around 100% of those degree recipients were women.
You may have the opportunity to take online graduate classes at URI. In fact, around 65% 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 3 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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