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Most Popular Schools for Clinical Nurse Leader Major & Degree Program

A program that prepares registered nurses for careers as clinical nurse leaders in which they work as part of an interdisciplinary team that provides direct medical care for patients based on evidence-based practice and research. Includes instruction in pharmacology, pathophysiology, epidemiology, research in nursing methods, advanced health assessment, statistics, and clinical practice management.


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Rank School Name Students % of Total Total On-Campus Cost
1 University of San Diego 62 3% $67,498
2 Charles R Drew University of Medicine and Science 59 22% $15,822
3 Mount Mercy University 42 8% $46,532
4 Xavier University 34 2% $54,310
5 University of Toledo 33 1% $28,423
6 Rowan University 33 1% $32,099
7 Touro University California 32 11% N/A
8 University of Maine at Augusta 24 4% $9,188
9 Capella University 23 0% $15,011
10 Pacific Lutheran University 20 3% $56,784
11 Texas Christian University 19 1% $65,684
12 Central Methodist University-College of Graduate and Extended Studies 18 2% $6,760
13 The University of Texas Medical Branch 12 1% N/A
14 Seton Hall University 12 1% $59,670
15 Curry College 10 1% $58,550
16 Morningside College 8 1% $45,579
17 University of South Carolina-Upstate 6 0% $25,442
18 University of Rochester 6 0% $72,721
19 University of the Incarnate Word 6 0% $48,628
20 Otterbein University 5 1% $46,908
21 University of Iowa 5 0% $24,239
22 CUNY Hunter College 4 0% $22,379
23 Creighton University 4 0% $54,952
24 Grand View University 4 1% $40,388
25 Texas Woman's University 3 0% $20,272
26 La Salle University 3 0% $47,110
27 Saginaw Valley State University 2 0% $22,254
28 University of Nevada-Reno 1 0% $25,039
29 Spring Hill College 1 0% $57,676
30 Lander University 1 0% $24,700

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Clinical Nurse Leader 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.