2025 Best Nursing Practice Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region

57 Colleges in the Southeast Region

2,674 Doctor's Degrees

Ranked #7 in popularity, nursing practice is one of the most sought-after doctor's degree programs in the nation. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.

College Factual looked at 57 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Nursing Practice Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 2,674 doctor's degrees in nursing practice during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Best Doctor’s Degree Schools List

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

Best Nursing Practice Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region Your choice of nursing practice 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. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

Major Focus - How much a school focuses on nursing practice students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other nursing practice students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized nursing practice related body.

Our complete 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.

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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 Nursing Practice Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Nursing Practice in the Southeast Region

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in nursing practice. Only those schools that rank in the top 20% of all the schools we analyze get awarded with a place on this list.