2025 Best Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing Schools in the Southwest Region
4Colleges in the Southwest Region
66Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Degrees Awarded
A degree in psychiatric/mental health nurse/nursing is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #409 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual reviewed 4 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of psychiatric/mental health nurse/nursing. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 66 degrees in psychiatric/mental health nurse/nursing annually.
Choosing a Great Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing School
The psychiatric/mental health nursing program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing rankings. For our Best Overall Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Pick Your Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing Degree Level
The psychiatric/mental health nursing school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing Schools in the Southwest Region.
You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.
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Best Schools for Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing in the Southwest 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 psychiatric/mental health nursing degree levels they offer.
Top Southwest Region Schools in Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center is a good choice for students interested in a degree in psychiatric/mental health nurse/nursing. TTUHSC is a small public university located in the large city of Lubbock.
There were approximately 15 psychiatric/mental health nurse/nursing students who graduated with this degree at TTUHSC in the most recent data year.
With the affordable and transfer-friendly online RN to BSN program at Southern New Hampshire University, you can build upon your prior educational journey and enhance your professional experience in a program designed to fit around your schedule.
It's hard to beat The University of Texas at Tyler if you want to pursue a degree in psychiatric/mental health nurse/nursing. Located in the midsize city of Tyler, UT Tyler is a public university with a moderately-sized student population. This university ranks 36th out of 115 colleges for overall quality in the state of Texas.
There were about 24 psychiatric/mental health nurse/nursing students who graduated with this degree at UT Tyler in the most recent data year.
Every student pursuing a degree in psychiatric/mental health nurse/nursing needs to check out Texas State University. Texas State is a very large public university located in the small city of San Marcos. This university ranks 16th out of 115 schools for overall quality in the state of Texas.
There were approximately 8 psychiatric/mental health nurse/nursing students who graduated with this degree at Texas State in the most recent data year.
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).