US News Nursing Rankings 2012

The 2012 edition of U.S. News & World Report places Hopkins Nursing master's programs No. 1 among all accredited nursing school programs in the nation. It moved up from No. 4 in 2008 to tie for this honor with the nursing schools at the University of Washington and the University of Pennsylvania.

The ASU College of Nursing & Health Innovation has achieved the highest ranking in its history and is ranked 21st out of 467 U.S. graduate nursing programs. This ranking places the ASU college in the top 4 percent of graduate nursing programs in the country.

The UCSF School of Nursing is placed fourth overall and first nationwide in the nursing specialties of family nurse practitioner, psychiatric/mental health clinical nursing, and adult/medical surgical nursing.

Georgia Southern’s School of Nursing’s graduate degree programs have been ranked among the nation’s best. The Master of Science graduate nursing program has been named one of the top 80 programs in the country (tied for 79th) under the Health Disciplines category, besting programs including the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, the University of Central Florida, the University of South Carolina, etc.

Nursing School Rankings 2012:
1 Johns Hopkins University
1 University of Pennsylvania
1 University of Washington
4 University of California--San Francisco
4 University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill
6 University of Michigan--Ann Arbor
7 Duke University
7 Oregon Health and Science University
7 University of Pittsburgh
7 Yale University
Source: US News

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