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2023 Most Popular Online Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in Kentucky

4 Colleges
$99,011 Avg Salary
$21,624 Avg Student Debt

In 2020-2021, nursing students earned 6,395 degrees and certificates from a Kentucky school, making the subject the 2nd in the state.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools with offerings that you might find attractive.

The Most Popular Online Nursing Graduate Certificate Schools in Kentucky ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 4 schools in Kentucky to see which ones were the most popular online graduate certificate programs for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from schools with online programs.

The following schools top our list of the Most Popular Online Nursing Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Our 2023 rankings named Frontier Nursing University the most popular online school in Kentucky for nursing students working on their graduate certificate. Frontier Nursing University is a small private not-for-profit school located in the rural area of Hyden.

About 96% of the students majoring in nursing at the school are women while 4% are male.

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#2

Western Kentucky University

Bowling Green, KY

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Western Kentucky University is a great place for nursing students working on their online graduate certificate. Located in the city of Bowling Green, WKU is a public college with a large student population.

About 96% of the students majoring in nursing at the school are women while 4% are male.

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A rank of #3 on this year’s list means Eastern Kentucky University is a great place for nursing students working on their online graduate certificate. Eastern is a fairly large public school located in the distant town of Richmond.

Women make up 64% of the nursing majors at the school.

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#4

University of Kentucky

Lexington, KY

The in-demand online graduate certificate programs at University of Kentucky helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best nursing schools in Kentucky. Located in the large city of Lexington, UK is a public school with a very large student population.

About 69% of the students majoring in nursing at the school are women while 31% are male.

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State Degrees Awarded
Georgia 7,112
Virginia 6,775
North Carolina 7,425
Florida 21,209
Tennessee 6,004
South Carolina 3,296
Louisiana 3,502
Arkansas 2,882
Alabama 7,364
Mississippi 2,838
West Virginia 1,771

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One of 30 majors within the area of study, nursing has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Nursing

Related Major Annual Graduates
Health & Medical Administrative Services 89,359
Allied Health & Medical Assisting Services 84,492
Practical Nursing & Nursing Assistants 84,274
Allied Health Professions 82,308
Public Health 40,596

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 4 schools only.

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to Aleksahgabrielle.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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