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2023 Best Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

1 Ranked Colleges
4 Degrees Awarded
$33,984 Avg Salary
Most Veteran Friendly for Practical Nursing for a Doctorate

When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Most Veteran Friendly for Practical Nursing for a Doctorate” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants is the 187th most popular major in the country with 84,274 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, practical nursing and nursing assistants graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $36,863 and had an average of $15,708 in loans still to pay off.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent practical nursing and nursing assistants programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the practical nursing and nursing assistants program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Most Veteran Friendly for Practical Nursing for a Doctorate” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.

Most Veteran Friendly for Practical Nursing for a Doctorate

The colleges and universities below are the best for doctor’s degree vets studying practical nursing.

Top 1 Best Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

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Rivier University
Nashua, New Hampshire

Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly for Practical Nursing for a Doctorate that were part of this year’s ranking, Rivier University landed the #1 spot on the list. Rivier University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Nashua, New Hampshire. It awarded 4 doctorate’s practical nursing degrees in 2020-2021.

Rivier did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants Doctor’s Degree Schools” list.According to our most recent data, Rivier University supports 2,178 students, and 55 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 31 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $6,338. To help with additional expenses, 4 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Students may be able to receive credit for their military training, depending on their background.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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