Registered Nursing at Wayne State University

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

Wayne State is located in Detroit, Michigan and approximately 26,241 students attend the school each year. Of the 651 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Wayne State University in 2021, 172 of them were registered nursing majors.

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

Wayne State Registered Nursing Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Registered Nursing

Wayne State Registered Nursing Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the registered nursing progam at Wayne State compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

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 registered nursing major at Wayne State is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Registered 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
Most Popular Registered Nursing Bachelor’s Degree Schools	252
Best Registered Nursing Bachelor’s Degree Schools	592
	809

Registered Nursing Student Demographics at Wayne State

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

Wayne State Registered Nursing Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 172 students graduated with a bachelor's degree in registered nursing from Wayne State. About 20% were men and 80% were women. The typical registered nursing bachelor's degree program is made up of only 13% men. So male students are more repesented at Wayne State since its program graduates 7% more men than average.

About 65% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in registered nursing at Wayne State 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 Wayne State University with a bachelor's in registered nursing.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	14
Black or African American	17
Hispanic or Latino	10
White	112
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	18

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

Related Majors

• Public Health/Community Nurse/Nursing
• Nurse Midwife/Nursing Midwifery
• Maternal/Child Health and Neonatal Nurse/Nursing
• Nursing Science
• Nursing Practice

Careers That Registered Nursing Grads May Go Into

A degree in registered 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 MI, the home state for Wayne State University.

Occupation	Jobs in MI	Average Salary in MI
Registered Nurses	96,680	$71,330
Nursing Instructors and Professors	1,410	$81,230

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 Del arte under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.