2025 Best Nursing Assistant/Aide and Patient Care Assistant/Aide Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region

1 College in the Rocky Mountains Region

2,938 Nursing Assistant Degrees Awarded

Nursing Assistant/Aide and Patient Care Assistant/Aide isn't the most popular major in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #712 in popularity out of 1506 majors in the country. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.

There was only one school in the Rocky Mountains Region to review for the 2025 Best Nursing Assistant/Aide and Patient Care Assistant/Aide Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking.

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Associate Degrees in Nursing Assistant

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Best Schools for Nursing Assistant/Aide and Patient Care Assistant/Aide in the Rocky Mountains Region

If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the nursing assistant degrees they offer, see the list below.

Top Rocky Mountains Region Schools in Nursing Assistant

Northeastern Junior College
Sterling, CO

Basic Certificate Highest Degree Type

It is difficult to beat Northeastern Junior College if you want to pursue a degree in nursing assistant/aide and patient care assistant/aide. NJC is a small public college located in the town of Sterling.More information about a degree in nursing assistant/aide and patient care assistant/aide from Northeastern Junior College

Best Nursing Assistant/Aide and Patient Care Assistant/Aide Colleges by State

Explore the best nursing assistant/aide and patient care assistant/aide colleges for a specific state in the Rocky Mountains Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Utah	597	2

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One of 2 majors within the Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants area of study, Nursing Assistant/Aide and Patient Care Assistant/Aide has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse Training	930
Other Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants	146

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Notes and References

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).

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