What it is: Nursing School Hub is an educational resource for aspiring nurses. Its website covers educational programs, career guidance, and current industry issues.

Why it Matters to You: Nursing School Hub offers several rankings, beyond just “traditional nursing schools.” It also offers rankings of time online programs, top progressive nursing schools, and most affordable schools.

Considerations:  While many of the rankings are based on Nursing School Hub’s own analysis, some rankings pull heavily or entirely from other ranking systems, e.g., their top best traditional nursing schools is admittedly a reiteration of U.S. News & World Report.

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What it is: Top RN to BSN is an online information source for current and prospective nursing students. It provides career resources, including a list of the best nursing academic programs.

Why it Matters to You: The RN to BSN list offers a profile of each of its top nursing programs along with a direct link to the hospital homepage. Each profile summarizes hospital achievements and employee experience.

Considerations:  For its residential program ranking, RN to BSN looked at statistics provided by the National Center for Education Statistics which is part of the U.S. Department of Education. Each of these factors is equally weighted. We only consider schools that are fully accredited by the nationally recognized Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE).

For its online program ranking, all colleges and universities ranked are regionally accredited, and their nursing programs are accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), or the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN). All are ranked by U.S. News & World Report for added reputability. In addition to reputation, we considered affordability (based on Non-Resident tuition) and perceived success (based on alumni salary data gathered from the Department of Education’s College Scorecard website). All metrics are weighted evenly.

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