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Registered Nursing at Eastern Illinois University

Registered Nursing at Eastern Illinois University

If you plan to study registered nursing, take a look at what Eastern Illinois University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

EIU is located in Charleston, Illinois and approximately 8,626 students attend the school each year.

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.

EIU Registered Nursing Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Registered Nursing

EIU Registered Nursing Rankings

The registered nursing major at EIU 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.

Registered Nursing Student Demographics at EIU

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

EIU Registered Nursing Bachelor’s Program

80% Women
27% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 20% of registered nursing bachelor's degrees went to men and 80% went to women. The typical registered nursing bachelor's degree program is made up of only 13% men. So male students are more repesented at EIU since its program graduates 7% more men than average.

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About 57% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in registered nursing at EIU are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Eastern Illinois University with a bachelor's in registered nursing.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 3
Black or African American 6
Hispanic or Latino 2
White 28
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 10

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 IL, the home state for Eastern Illinois University.

Occupation Jobs in IL Average Salary in IL
Registered Nurses 129,400 $73,890
Nursing Instructors and Professors 1,810 $69,310

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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