2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Registered Nursing in Nebraska
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Ranked Colleges
46
Degrees Awarded
$31,400
Avg Cost*
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Registered Nursing Major in Nebraska” ranking is part of that endeavor.
With 262,974 degrees handed out in 2021-2022, registered nursing is the 3rd most popular major in the United States.
Across Nebraska, there were 1,662 registered nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 46 registered nursing graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,388 and $35,873 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Registered Nursing Major in Nebraska” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in registered nursing. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in registered nursing.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Registered Nursing Major in Nebraska
The colleges and universities below are the best for nebraska master’s degree registered nursing students.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Registered Nursing in Nebraska
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Nebraska Medical Center. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Registered Nursing Major in Nebraska list. UNMC is a small school located in Omaha, Nebraska that handed out 36 masters’s registered nursing degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 2 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Read more about Registered Nursing at University of Nebraska Medical Center
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Registered Nursing Major in Nebraska that were part of this year’s ranking, Nebraska Wesleyan University landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in Lincoln, Nebraska, and it awarded 10 masters’s registered nursing degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full NWU Registered Nursing Report
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Notes and References
References
- 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 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).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
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- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
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