PhD Nursing Programs

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Best PhD in Nursing Programs, Ranked Every Way We Publish

140 nursing PhD programs sit behind these lists. The two national rankings are the place to start. Everything else is the same 140 programs cut a different way, because a nurse who cannot move and a nurse who wants funding are asking different questions.

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The Two National Rankings

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PhD in Nursing Programs by State

46 states have at least one nursing PhD program. Each page ranks what is in that state and gives the state's own nursing faculty pay against the national median.

How These Rankings Are Put Together

Campus and online programs run on separate scoring models with different weights, and the two are never merged into one list. Everything traces to four sources: federal IPEDS completions, NIH RePORTER for nursing research awards, BLS wage data, and the program pages each school publishes. The full model, including the weights, is here.