Nursing at California State University - Sacramento

What traits are you looking for in a nursing school? To help you decide if California State University - Sacramento is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's nursing program.

Sac State is located in Sacramento, California and approximately 32,293 students attend the school each year.

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

Sac State Nursing Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing
• Master’s Degree in Nursing

Sac State Nursing Rankings

The nursing major at Sac State 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.

Nursing Student Demographics at Sac State

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

Sac State Nursing Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 18% of nursing bachelor's degrees went to men and 82% went to women. The typical nursing bachelor's degree program is made up of only 13% men. So male students are more repesented at Sac State since its program graduates 4% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 15% more racial-ethnic minorities in its nursing bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	43
Black or African American	6
Hispanic or Latino	42
White	64
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	26

Sac State Nursing Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 3% of nursing master's degrees went to men and 97% went to women.

In the nursing master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 54% of degree recipients. That is 14% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from California State University - Sacramento with a master's in nursing.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	11
Black or African American	5
Hispanic or Latino	15
White	24
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	14

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 California State University - Sacramento. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Registered Nursing	316

Related Majors

• Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions
• Health Sciences & Services
• Public Health
• 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 CA, the home state for California State University - Sacramento.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Registered Nurses	294,510	$106,950
Medical and Health Services Managers	34,510	$125,770
Nurse Practitioners	13,420	$133,780
Nursing Instructors and Professors	3,390	$101,320
Nurse Anesthetists	1,180	$212,210

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 Stickpen under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.