Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing at Duke University

What traits are you looking for in a psychiatric/mental health nursing school? To help you decide if Duke University is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's psychiatric/mental health nursing program.

Duke is located in Durham, North Carolina and approximately 16,172 students attend the school each year.

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

Duke Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing

Duke Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing Rankings

Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Student Demographics at Duke

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the psychiatric/mental health nursing majors at Duke University.

Duke Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 17% of psychiatric/mental health nursing master's degrees went to men and 83% went to women.

Of the students who received a psychiatric/mental health nursing master's degree from Duke, 61% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Duke University with a master's in psychiatric/mental health nursing.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	11
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Related Majors

• Critical Care Nursing
• Nursing Science
• Maternal/Child Health and Neonatal Nurse/Nursing
• Nurse Anesthetist
• Women’s Health Nurse/Nursing

Careers That Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Grads May Go Into

A degree in psychiatric/mental health 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 NC, the home state for Duke University.

Occupation	Jobs in NC	Average Salary in NC
Registered Nurses	102,500	$64,850
Nurse Practitioners	4,760	$104,100
Nursing Instructors and Professors	2,170	$68,710

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 Bjoertvedt under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.