2025 Best Adult Health Nurse/Nursing Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
4Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region
40Doctor's Degrees
a doctor's degree in adult health nurse/nursing is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #190 out of 862 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 4 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Adult Health Nurse/Nursing Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 40 doctor's degrees in adult health nurse/nursing during the 2022-2023 academic year.
Choosing a Great Adult Health Nurse/Nursing School for Your Doctor's Degree
Your choice of adult health nurse/nursing for getting your doctor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we include a school's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to adult health nurse/nursing students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of adult health nurse/nursing students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized adult health nurse/nursing related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for adult health nurse/nursing students working on their doctor's degree.
More Ways to Rank Adult Health Nurse/Nursing Schools
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Adult Health Nurse/Nursing Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list to help you make the college decision.
Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Adult Health Nurse/Nursing in the Middle Atlantic Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in adult health nurse/nursing.
Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools for a Doctorate in Adult Health Nursing
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).