Nursing at Longwood University

If you are interested in studying nursing, you may want to check out the program at Longwood University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Longwood is located in Farmville, Virginia and approximately 4,841 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 54 nursing majors received their bachelor's degree from Longwood.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Nursing section at the bottom of this page.

Longwood Nursing Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing

Longwood Nursing Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks nursing programs across the country. The following shows how Longwood performed in these rankings.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The nursing major at Longwood is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Nursing. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Best Nursing Bachelor’s Degree Schools	521
Best Value Nursing Bachelor’s Degree Schools	555
Most Focused Nursing Bachelor’s Degree Schools	618
Most Popular Nursing Bachelor’s Degree Schools	652
Best Nursing Schools	757
	820
Most Popular Nursing Schools	1,242
Most Focused Nursing Schools	1,345
Best Value Nursing Schools	1,426
	1,576

Nursing Student Demographics at Longwood

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the nursing majors at Longwood University.

Longwood Nursing Bachelor’s Program

Of the 54 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Nursing from Longwood in 2020-2021, 2% were men and 98% were women.

About 91% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in nursing at Longwood are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Longwood University with a bachelor's in nursing.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	49
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

Longwood also has a doctoral program available in nursing. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Concentrations Within Nursing

If you plan to be a nursing major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Longwood University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Registered Nursing	54

Related Majors

• Allied Health Professions
• Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions
• Communication Sciences

Careers That Nursing Grads May Go Into

A degree in nursing can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for VA, the home state for Longwood University.

Occupation	Jobs in VA	Average Salary in VA
Registered Nurses	64,750	$69,790
Medical and Health Services Managers	7,650	$116,770
Nurse Practitioners	4,710	$105,170
Nursing Instructors and Professors	1,480	$70,540
Nurse Anesthetists	850	$187,320

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Webster Geneva under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.