2025 Best Nursing Practice Doctor's Degree Schools in Michigan

Nursing Practice is of the hottest doctor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #7 most popular major in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Michigan to determine which ones were the best for nursing practice students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 117 doctor's degrees in nursing practice during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Doctor’s Degree Schools List

Choosing a Great Nursing Practice School for Your Doctor's Degree

The nursing practice doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality nursing practice program can vary widely even among the top schools. 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 account for this we include a college'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 nursing practice students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of nursing practice 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 nursing practice related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for nursing practice students working on their doctor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Nursing Practice Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Nursing Practice Doctor's Degree Schools in Michigan ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Nursing Practice in Michigan

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in nursing practice.

Top Michigan Schools for a Doctorate in Nursing Practice

1

Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

61 Annual Graduates

Michigan State University is a good decision for individuals interested in a doctor's degree in nursing practice. Michigan State is a fairly large public university located in the small city of East Lansing.More information about a doctorate in nursing practice from Michigan State University

2

Wayne State University
Detroit, MI

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

10 Annual Graduates

Every student pursuing a degree in a doctor's degree in nursing practice needs to take a look at Wayne State University. Located in the city of Detroit, Wayne State is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in nursing practice from Wayne State University

3

Oakland University
Rochester Hills, MI

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

28 Annual Graduates

Oakland University is a wonderful decision for students interested in a doctor's degree in nursing practice. Located in the large suburb of Rochester Hills, Oakland is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in nursing practice from Oakland University

Best Nursing Practice Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Nursing Practice Schools in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Illinois	273	1,085
Ohio	253	79
Indiana	202	69
Wisconsin	163	160

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Nursing Practice Related Rankings by Major

One of 23 majors within the Nursing area of study, Nursing Practice has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Nursing Practice

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Registered Nursing	88
Nurse Anesthetist	60
Geriatric Nurse/Nursing	15
Family Practice Nurse/Nursing	12
Public Health/Community Nurse/Nursing	12
Nursing Administration	11
Nursing Science	11
Maternal/Child Health and Neonatal Nurse/Nursing	8
School Nursing	3
Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing	2

Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Aleksahgabrielle. More about our data sources and methodologies.