Top online nursing grad schools

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The recent discussion on sketchy nursing "research" from for-profit online nursing "graduate programs" makes this an interesting addition. This link is to the article listing the top 25 online nursing graduate schools in the country, based on admissions selectivity, faculty and career search support, and graduation rates.

Not one of them is a for-profit diploma mill; all have accredited, established brick-and-mortar nursing programs.

http://www.asrn.org/journal-nursing/1171-the-top-25-online-graduate-programs-for-nursing.html

The Top 25 Online Graduate Nursing Programs:

1. St. Xavier University (Chicago, IL)

2. Medical University of South Carolina (Charleston, SC)

3. University of Massachusetts-Amherst (Amherst, MA)

4. George Washington University (Washington, DC)

5. East Carolina University (Greenville, NC)

6. Duquesne University (Pittsburgh, PA)

6. Loyola University-New Orleans (New Orleans, LA)

6. University of Alabama-Huntsville (Huntsville, AL)

6. University of Texas Medical Branch (Galveston, TX)

10. Florida State University (Tallahassee, FL)

10. Graceland University (Independence, MO)

10. Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (Corpus Christi, TX)

10. University of Colorado-Denver (Denver, CO)

10. University of Missouri-Kansas (Kansas City, MO)

10. University of Nevada-Las Vegas (Las Vegas, NV)

16. Stony Brook University-SUNY (Stony Brook, NY)

16. University of South Carolina (Columbia, SC)

16. University of Texas-Tyler (Tyler, TX)

19. Ball State University (Muncie, IN)

19. Lamar University (Beaumont, TX)

19. University of Delaware (Newark, DE)

22. Clarkson College (Omaha, NE)

23. Texas Christian University (Fort Worth, TX)

24. Drexel University (Philadelphia, PA)

24. Ferris State University (Big Rapids, MI)

24. Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD)

Specializes in Mental Health.

I am not comparing formal academic peer review to the USN&WR methodology. I object to the common reflex contempt for academia I see here all too often. Also, persons experienced in doing formal peer reviews, e.g., for papers and articles, have developed skills in doing them.

If you read the report of the methodology, you will note that they collected data from 130 programs. That's not a trivial number. Also, peer reveies being "incorporated" isn't the same as "relied on 100%," which is an assumption I pick up here.

Did you even read what I wrote in the post you quoted? :sniff:

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