2025 Best Clinical Nurse Specialist Schools in New York
3Colleges in New York
12Clinical Nurse Specialist Degrees Awarded
Clinical Nurse Specialist isn't the most popular major in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #642 in popularity out of 1506 majors in the country. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in New York to determine which ones were the best for clinical nurse specialist students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 12 degrees in clinical nurse specialist annually.
Your choice of clinical nurse specialist school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for clinical nurse specialist schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Clinical Nurse Specialist Schools in New York ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Clinical Nurse Specialist in New York
The schools below may not offer all types of clinical nurse specialist degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
New York University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in clinical nurse specialist. Located in the large city of New York, NYU is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #16 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means NYU is a great university overall.
There were about 7 clinical nurse specialist students who graduated with this degree at NYU in the most recent year we have data available.
It is difficult to beat Molloy College if you want to pursue a degree in clinical nurse specialist. Molloy is a small private not-for-profit college located in the large suburb of Rockville Centre. This college ranks 10th out of 136 schools for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were about 3 clinical nurse specialist students who graduated with this degree at Molloy in the most recent year we have data available.
It is hard to beat St. John Fisher College if you want to pursue a degree in clinical nurse specialist. Located in the suburb of Rochester, Fisher is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population. This college ranks 48th out of 136 colleges for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were approximately 2 clinical nurse specialist students who graduated with this degree at Fisher in the most recent year we have data available.
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).
Your choice of clinical nurse specialist school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for clinical nurse specialist schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
