Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing at Vanderbilt University

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

Vanderbilt is located in Nashville, Tennessee and has a total student population of 13,537.

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.

Vanderbilt Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing

Vanderbilt Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing Rankings

Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Student Demographics at Vanderbilt

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

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

For the most recent academic year available, 25% of psychiatric/mental health nursing master's degrees went to men and 75% went to women. Nationwide, master's degree programs only see 17% men graduate in psychiatric/mental health nursing each year. Vanderbilt does a better job at serving the male population as it supports 8% more men than average.

Of the students who received a psychiatric/mental health nursing master's degree from Vanderbilt, 73% 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 Vanderbilt University with a master's in psychiatric/mental health nursing.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	5
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	41
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

Related Majors

• Nursing Science
• Maternal/Child Health and Neonatal Nurse/Nursing
• Emergency Room/Trauma Nursing
• Nurse Midwife/Nursing Midwifery
• Adult 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 TN, the home state for Vanderbilt University.

Occupation	Jobs in TN	Average Salary in TN
Registered Nurses	60,360	$61,320
Nurse Practitioners	7,010	$95,990
Nursing Instructors and Professors	910	$75,300

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 Dansan4444 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.