2025 Best Nursing Practice Schools in the Southeast Region
60Colleges in the Southeast Region
2,767Nursing Practice Degrees Awarded
Nursing Practice is of the hottest degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #105 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 60 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for nursing practice students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 2,767 degrees in nursing practice to qualified students.
The nursing practice program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Nursing Practice rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for nursing practice 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.
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 Schools in the Southeast Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Nursing Practice in the Southeast Region
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the nursing practice degree levels they offer. Only those schools that rank in the top 20% of all the schools we analyze get awarded with a place on this list.
12 Top Southeast Region Schools in Nursing Practice
It's difficult to beat Duke University if you wish to pursue a degree in nursing practice. Located in the large city of Durham, Duke is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #7 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Duke is a great university overall.
There were roughly 53 nursing practice students who graduated with this degree at Duke in the most recent year we have data available.
Emory University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in nursing practice. Located in the large city of Atlanta, Emory is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #31 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Emory is a great university overall.
There were roughly 59 nursing practice students who graduated with this degree at Emory in the most recent year we have data available.
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Any student pursuing a degree in nursing practice has to check out Samford University. Located in the suburb of Birmingham, Samford is a private not-for-profit university with a moderately-sized student population. This university ranks 5th out of 42 schools for overall quality in the state of Alabama.
There were roughly 13 nursing practice students who graduated with this degree at Samford in the most recent year we have data available.
University of Miami is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in nursing practice. U Miami is a large private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Coral Gables. A Best Colleges rank of #175 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means U Miami is a great university overall.
There were roughly 46 nursing practice students who graduated with this degree at U Miami in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the city of Richmond, VCU is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #189 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means VCU is a great university overall.
There were roughly 117 nursing practice students who graduated with this degree at VCU in the most recent data year.
Located in the midsize city of Gainesville, UF is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #56 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UF is a great university overall.
There were about 93 nursing practice students who graduated with this degree at UF in the most recent year we have data available.
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UNC Chapel Hill is a very large public university located in the city of Chapel Hill. A Best Colleges rank of #38 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UNC Chapel Hill is a great university overall.
There were approximately 29 nursing practice students who graduated with this degree at UNC Chapel Hill in the most recent year we have data available.
LSU Health - New Orleans is a small public university located in the large city of New Orleans.
There were about 71 nursing practice students who graduated with this degree at LSU Health - New Orleans in the most recent year we have data available.
BS in Nursing - RN to BSN - Accelerated RN to MSNProgram Name
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Located in the medium-sized suburb of Charlottesville, University of Virginia is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #35 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means University of Virginia is a great university overall.
There were about 14 nursing practice students who graduated with this degree at University of Virginia in the most recent year we have data available.
These are some additional schools worth mentioning that are also great but just didn't quite make the cut to earn our top Best Nursing Practice Schools in the Southeast Region award.
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).
The nursing practice program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Nursing Practice rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for nursing practice schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
