Top Rated Nursing Schools

According to NursingWorld.org, nursing is the largest health care profession with over 3.1 million registered nurses in a variety of work settings such as "acute care hospitals, home and community centers, and corporate work sites." If you are interested in pursuing a nursing career, earning a degree from one of the top nursing schools will increase your marketability and provide you with a top-notch education. U.S. World News Report periodically ranks the top nursing schools in the nation based on student's standardized test scores, tuition fees, faculty resources, graduation rates, and more. The following schools are the top three nursing schools as of their last ranking in 2007.
  1. University of Washington

    • The University of Washington's School of Nursing has been ranked by U.S. World News Report as the number one nursing program in the country for the past 16 years. The school claims to have superior faculty, award-winning research, community partnerships, innovative technology, and sophisticated curriculum. It offers both undergrad and graduate degrees with specializations in biobehavioral nursing and health systems, family and child nursing, psycho-social and community health.

      University of Washington
      School of Nursing
      1959 NE Pacific St.
      Seattle, Washington 98195
      206-543-8736
      son.washington.edu

    University of California San Francisco

    • According to the school's website, the UCSF School of Nursing was ranked second in the country among nursing schools by the NIH (National Institutes of Health). The school maintains a central focus on public service, teaching, patient care, and research and offers both undergraduate and graduate degrees.

      Nursing Student Affairs Office
      2 Koret Way, #N-319X
      UCSF Box 0602
      San Francisco, CA 94143-0602
      415-476-1435
      nurseweb.ucsf.edu

    University of Pennsylvania

    • The University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing is consistently ranked at the top of nursing schools by U.S. World News Report and the NIH. It boasts a faculty of top researchers in the world, along with some of the most cutting edge medical technology. According to the school's website, such technology not found at other nursing schools are "a state-of-the-art simulation lab with mannequins responding as patients would, one of the first PACE practices owned and operated by a School of Nursing delivering care to frail elders, and classrooms with the latest hospital-based electronic medical records (EMR) technology."

      University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
      Claire M. Fagin Hall
      418 Curie Blvd.
      Philadelphia, PA 19104-4217
      215-898-8281
      nursing.upenn.edu

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