Geriatric Nurse/Nursing at University of Southern Indiana

If you are interested in studying geriatric nurse/nursing, you may want to check out the program at University of Southern Indiana. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

USI is located in Evansville, Indiana and has a total student population of 10,203.

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

USI Geriatric Nurse/Nursing Degrees Available

Master’s Degree in Geriatric Nursing

Online Classes Are Available at USI

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? USI offers distance education options for geriatric nursing at the following degree levels:

Master’s Degree

USI Geriatric Nurse/Nursing Rankings

Geriatric Nursing Student Demographics at USI

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the geriatric nursing majors at University of Southern Indiana.

USI Geriatric Nurse/Nursing Master’s Program

54% Women

8% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

For the most recent academic year available, 46% of geriatric nursing master's degrees went to men and 54% went to women. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 14% men graduate in geriatric nursing each year. USI does a better job at serving the male population as it supports 32% more men than average.

Of the students who received a geriatric nursing master's degree from USI, 92% 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 University of Southern Indiana with a master's in geriatric nursing.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	12
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Careers That Geriatric Nursing Grads May Go Into

A degree in geriatric 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 IN, the home state for University of Southern Indiana.

Occupation	Jobs in IN	Average Salary in IN
Registered Nurses	67,870	$64,860
Nurse Practitioners	4,780	$103,200
Nursing Instructors and Professors	1,350	$76,280

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
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