About Top Nursing Schools

Top Nursing Schools helps people find and compare nursing education in the United States: first-time students, career changers with a degree in another field, LPN/LVN and RN nurses completing a degree, and nurses moving into graduate study or a specialty. You can browse by state, degree, pathway, specialty and study format, save schools and programs, and compare programs side by side.

Independent

We are not a school, an admissions service or a recruiter, and we are not affiliated with, endorsed by or acting for the schools we list. We do not process applications: every program page links to the school's own official pages. There is no forum, job board or account to create.

Facts with sources

School identities and the nursing award levels they confer come from IPEDS, the U.S. Department of Education's postsecondary data system. Nursing program accreditation comes from the CCNE and ACEN directories. Program details — tuition, admission requirements, deadlines, clinical arrangements, outcomes — are verified on each school's official website and shown with a link and a verification date. When we cannot confirm something, the page says “Not verified” or “Not published” rather than guessing. Read the full methodology.

Not a ranking

“Top Nursing Schools in [State]” pages are editorial selections that meet published inclusion criteria, listed alphabetically by default. We do not assign numbered ranks, grades or quality scores, and inclusion is not a certification of quality or a guarantee of licensure eligibility.

How the directory is funded

Factual listings are free. Schools can buy sponsored placements on relevant state, program and specialty pages. These are always labelled “Sponsored”, sit in their own section, and never change which schools are listed, how they are ordered or the facts shown. See advertising.

Who runs it

Top Nursing Schools is operated by Piksel & Co Digital LLC (Delaware, USA). Contact: support@topnursingschools.net.