This Florida university now has one of the nation’s 25 best nursing schools, U.S. News says
The University of South Florida’s nursing school has cracked the top 25 in a new ranking of the nation’s best, while the University of Miami maintained a spot in the top 30.
USF surged seven places into a three-way tie for 24th place in U.S. News and World Report’s newly released rankings of the nation’s top graduate schools in four different categories. The school tied with the University of California-Davis and Rush University for the best nursing graduate program.
The University of Miami's graduate nursing program dropped two spots to 27th.
Four other Florida schools made it into the top 100: Florida International University (a four-way tie for 34th), Florida Atlantic University (a five-way tie for 41st), Jacksonville University (a tie for 92nd with Adelphi University) and Barry University (a tie for 94th with Mercer University).
U.S. News based its rankings on factors including the quality and productivity of each school’s faculty, the amount of grant funding the school received, the selectivity of the school’s admissions standards, assessments by health care professionals and academics and the number of degrees awarded by each school.
The top graduate nursing school overall? A tie between Emory University and Johns Hopkins University.
You can read the complete rankings here.
Here are the Florida graduate nursing schools that made it into the top 100:
24. University of South Florida (three-way tie)
27. University of Miami
34. Florida International University (four-way tie)
41. Florida Atlantic University (five-way tie)
92. Jacksonville University (two-way tie)
94. Barry University (two-way tie)
Andrew Marra is a reporter at The Palm Beach Post. Reach him at amarra@pbpost.com.
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