2025 Best Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants Schools in the Southwest Region
5
Colleges in the Southwest Region
8,516
Practical Nursing Degrees Awarded
$43,800
Avg Early-Career Salary
Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants isn't the most popular major in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #187 in popularity out of 395 majors in the country. As such, the degree program isn't offered at every college in the United States, but there are schools that do have a program in the field that are top-notch when it comes to quality.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 5 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for practical nursing & nursing assistants students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 8,516 degrees in practical nursing & nursing assistants annually.
What's on this page: * Degree-Level Rankings
Choosing a Great Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants School
Your choice of practical nursing & nursing assistants school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for practical nursing & nursing assistants schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each 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.
Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants Rankings by Degree Level
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants Schools in the Southwest Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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More information on how we come up with our rankings can be found here: College Factual's Data Methodology.
