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2023 Most Popular Online Nursing & Nursing Assistants Undergraduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region

1 College
$36,841 Avg Salary
$15,480 Avg Student Debt

Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants is the #21 most popular major in the country with 84,274 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for healthcare students. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Healthcare Degree Search has created the Most Popular Online Nursing & Nursing Assistants Undergraduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 1 school in the Southwest Region offering online undergraduate certificate programs for healthcare students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from schools with online programs.

The following school tops our list of the Most Popular Online Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants Undergraduate Certificate Colleges.

#1

Amarillo College

Amarillo, TX

Our 2023 rankings named Amarillo College the most popular online school in the Southwest Region for practical nursing and nursing assistants students working on their undergraduate certificate. Amarillo College is a moderately-sized public school located in the city of Amarillo.

About 97% of the students majoring in practical nursing at the school are women while 3% are male.

On average, practical nursing graduates from Amarillo College take out $18,169 in student loans while working on their Undergraduate Certificate.

Read full report on Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants at Amarillo College

Explore the most popular online practical nursing and nursing assistants schools for a specific state in the Southwest region.

State Degrees Awarded
Texas 97
Arizona 57
Oklahoma 57
New Mexico 0

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Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants is one of 30 different types of healthcare programs to choose from.

Practical Nursing Focus Areas

Major Annual Graduates
Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse Training 44,900
Nursing Assistant/Aide and Patient Care Assistant/Aide 34,557
Other Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants 4,817

Related Major Annual Graduates
Nursing 322,592
Health & Medical Administrative Services 89,359
Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services 84,492
Allied Health Professions 82,308
Public Health 40,596

Notes and References

*These values are for the top school only.

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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