Best Graduate Best Nurse Practitioner: Family Nursing Programs in US 2018

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More US Graduate School Rankings

* Schools within the same rank range are listed alphabetically.

RankingsOverall Nursing School Program Data
RankSchool nameTuition (full-time) (master's)Total master's enrollmentAcceptance rate (master's)Master's student-faculty ratio
1

Johns Hopkins University

(Baltimore, MD)

$37,056 per year647 67.3% 6.6:1 
2

University of Pennsylvania

(Philadelphia, PA)

$39,552 per year614 55.9% 1.9:1 
3

University of Washington

(Seattle, WA)

$25,575 per year (in-state) $39,048 per year (out-of-state)69 83.3% 0.2:1 
4

Duke University

(Durham, NC)

$1,639 per credit486 50.9% 1.9:1 
4

University of California, San Francisco

(San Francisco, CA)

N/AN/A N/A N/A 
6

Vanderbilt University

(Nashville, TN)

$1,359 per credit633 66.5% 3.4:1 
7

University of Maryland, Baltimore

(Baltimore, MD)

$724 per credit (in-state) $1,324 per credit (out-of-state)503 47.9% 1.4:1 
8

Emory University

(Atlanta, GA)

$1,817 per credit314 55.7% 2.6:1 
9

Columbia University

(New York, NY)

$1,450 per credit654 34.8% 4.9:1 
10

Rush University

(Chicago, IL)

$995 per credit329 30.1% 2.6:1 
11

University of Illinois, Chicago

(Chicago, IL)

$20,120 per year (in-state) $32,360 per year (out-of-state)376 51.4% 2.5:1 
11

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

(Chapel Hill, NC)

$14,929 per year (in-state) $32,154 per year (out-of-state)234 34.1% 1.9:1 
11

Yale University

(New Haven, CT)

$37,932 per year297 36.7% 5.6:1 
14

Georgetown University

(Washington, DC)

$1,928 per credit817 42.6% 9.0:1 
15

New York University (Meyers)

(New York, NY)

$41,576 per year593 67.7% 3.3:1 
15

University of Pittsburgh

(Pittsburgh, PA)

$850 per credit (in-state) $988 per credit (out-of-state)183 31.9% 1.5:1 
17

Case Western Reserve University

(Cleveland, OH)

$1,952 per credit301 63.9% 2.0:1 
17

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

(Ann Arbor, MI)

$21,390 per year (in-state) $43,982 per year (out-of-state)313 49.6% 2.7:1 
17

University of Virginia

(Charlottesville, VA)

$15,450 per year (in-state) $25,242 per year (out-of-state)234 58.5% 1.9:1 
20

University of Iowa

(Iowa City, IA)

N/A16 100% 0.1:1 
20

Villanova University

(Villanova, PA)

$862 per credit267 61.3% 2.6:1 
22

Ohio State University

(Columbus, OH)

$723 per credit (in-state) $1,940 per credit (out-of-state)686 58.3% 8.1:1 
22

University of California, Los Angeles

(Los Angeles, CA)

$21,750 per year (in-state) $33,995 per year (out-of-state)352 45.7% 6.4:1 

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