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Most Popular Schools for Nursing Science Major & Degree Program

A research program that focuses on the study of advanced clinical practices, research methodologies, the administration of complex nursing services, and that prepares nurses to further the progress of nursing research through experimentation and clinical applications.


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Rank School Name Students % of Total Total On-Campus Cost
1 EDP University of Puerto Rico Inc-San Juan 306 60% $6,800
2 Duquesne University 279 13% $54,364
3 Rivier University 252 37% $49,560
4 EDP University of Puerto Rico Inc-San Sebastian 252 73% $6,800
5 University of Maryland, Baltimore 216 15% N/A
6 University of Massachusetts-Boston 207 6% $36,647
7 Benedictine University 160 8% $50,006
8 Atenas College 152 43% $8,546
9 Kean University 138 4% $30,475
10 University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 138 22% N/A
11 Rush University 134 31% N/A
12 University of Maine at Fort Kent 121 56% $19,835
13 University of Illinois at Chicago 118 2% $30,866
14 Ramapo College of New Jersey 114 7% $31,572
15 Millersville University of Pennsylvania 103 6% $30,538
16 Monmouth University 77 4% $56,979
17 Anna Maria College 59 14% $54,090
18 Clemson University 56 1% $31,270
19 Salem State University 54 2% $27,384
20 Wagner College 53 8% $64,382
21 Universal Technology College of Puerto Rico 52 16% N/A
22 Governors State University 50 3% $25,092
23 University of California-Irvine 49 1% $34,261
24 Saint Xavier University 47 5% $48,436
25 Dewey University-Manati 47 26% $8,995
26 Northern Illinois University 44 1% $29,117
27 Ohio Christian University 40 5% $33,532
28 University of California-Davis 32 0% $35,177
29 Fort Hays State University 31 1% $18,048
30 University of Puerto Rico-Medical Sciences 26 5% N/A
31 Rochester College 26 10% $33,292
32 University of Rhode Island 26 1% $30,351
33 ICPR Junior College-Mayaguez 23 15% $9,132
34 Oklahoma Wesleyan University 22 7% $40,306
35 Moravian College 22 4% $60,164
36 Walsh University 21 3% $44,236
37 University of Kansas 21 0% $26,566
38 Rutgers University-New Brunswick 21 0% $32,443
39 University of South Carolina-Columbia 19 0% $28,301
40 Fresno Pacific University 18 2% $46,569
41 Bellevue University 18 1% $20,970
42 University of North Carolina at Greensboro 17 0% $21,297
43 Minnesota State University-Mankato 15 0% $20,482
44 Catholic University of America 15 1% $64,560
45 Dewey University-Juana Díaz 11 12% $8,995
46 College of Saint Elizabeth 10 3% $52,548
47 Wichita State University 10 0% $24,042
48 Liberty Technical College 10 22% N/A
49 SUNY College of Technology at Delhi 9 1% $24,270
50 Averett University 7 4% $47,918
51 North Park University 7 1% $43,005
52 ICPR Junior College-Manati 6 4% $9,132
53 Vanderbilt University 5 0% $70,146
54 ICPR Junior College-Arecibo 5 4% $9,132
55 Pittsburg State University 5 0% $19,902
56 Columbia University in the City of New York 3 0% $76,856
57 Emory University 3 0% $69,502
58 ICPR Junior College-General Institutional 3 2% $9,132
59 Medical Prep Institute of Tampa Bay 2 6% N/A
60 Trinity College of Nursing & Health Sciences 2 2% $29,934
61 University of Vermont 2 0% $34,210
62 University of Iowa 2 0% $24,239

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Nursing Science program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.