2023 Most Popular Colleges for Nursing Assistant/Aide and Patient Care Assistant/Aide in the Southwest Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Most Well Attended Nursing Assistant Major in the Southwest Region” ranking.

Nursing Assistant/Aide and Patient Care Assistant/Aide is the 712th most popular major in the country with 34,557 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 3,272 nursing assistant/aide and patient care assistant/aide graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Nursing Assistant Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in nursing assistant/aide and patient care assistant/aide. To top this list, a school must have a successful nursing assistant/aide and patient care assistant/aide program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Nursing Assistant Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region nursing assistant students.

Top 2 Most Popular Colleges for Nursing Assistant/Aide and Patient Care Assistant/Aide in the Southwest Region

1

Coconino Community College
Flagstaff, Arizona

$21,656 Average Early-Career Earnings

$15,629 Average Student Debt

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Nursing Assistant Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Coconino Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Coconino Community College is a small school located in Flagstaff, Arizona that handed out 132 ’s nursing assistant degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Coconino Community College Nursing Assistant/Aide and Patient Care Assistant/Aide Report

2

New Mexico State University - Dona Ana
Las Cruces, New Mexico

$31,467 Average Early-Career Earnings

$11,046 Average Student Debt

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend New Mexico State University - Dona Ana. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Nursing Assistant Major in the Southwest Region. Located in Las Cruces, New Mexico, this medium-sized public school awarded 20 degrees to qualified ’s nursing assistant students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Nursing Assistant/Aide and Patient Care Assistant/Aide at NMSU Dona Ana

• Most Popular Colleges for Nursing Assistant/Aide and Patient Care Assistant/Aide

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%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *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.