2025 Best Clinical Nurse Specialist Doctor's Degree Schools

If you're seeking a Doctor's Degree in clinical nurse specialist, you will have fewer peers than average since the major degree program is the #593 one in the country in terms of popularity.While this may limit the number of schools that offer the degree program, there are still top-quality ones to be found.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 5 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for clinical nurse specialist students pursuing a doctor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 37 doctor's degrees in clinical nurse specialist to qualified students.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Choosing a Great Clinical Nurse Specialist School for Your Doctor's Degree

The clinical nurse specialist doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality clinical nurse specialist program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on clinical nurse specialist students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of clinical nurse specialist students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized clinical nurse specialist related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for clinical nurse specialist students working on their doctor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Clinical Nurse Specialist Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Clinical Nurse Specialist Doctor's Degree Schools ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Clinical Nurse Specialist in the United States

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in clinical nurse specialist.

Top Schools for a Doctorate in Clinical Nurse Specialist

1

Texas Christian University
Fort Worth, TX

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

4 Annual Graduates

Texas Christian University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a doctor's degree in clinical nurse specialist. TCU is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Fort Worth.More information about a doctorate in clinical nurse specialist from Texas Christian University

2

Loma Linda University
Loma Linda, CA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

1 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a doctor's degree in clinical nurse specialist has to take a look at Loma Linda University. Loma Linda University is a small private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of Loma Linda.More information about a doctorate in clinical nurse specialist from Loma Linda University

3

University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus
Pittsburgh, PA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

1 Annual Graduates

Any student who is interested in a doctor's degree in clinical nurse specialist needs to take a look at University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus. Pitt is a very large public university located in the city of Pittsburgh.More information about a doctorate in clinical nurse specialist from University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus

4

Nebraska Methodist College of Nursing & Allied Health
Omaha, NE

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

1 Annual Graduates

Every student who is interested in a doctor's degree in clinical nurse specialist has to check out Nebraska Methodist College of Nursing & Allied Health. Nebraska Methodist College is a small private not-for-profit college located in the city of Omaha.More information about a doctorate in clinical nurse specialist from Nebraska Methodist College of Nursing & Allied Health

5

Robert Morris University
Moon Township, PA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

30 Annual Graduates

Located in the suburb of Moon Township, RMU is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.More information about a doctorate in clinical nurse specialist from Robert Morris University

Clinical Nurse Specialist by Region

View the Best Clinical Nurse Specialist Doctor's Degree Schools for a specific region near you.

Region
Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Other U.S. Territories
Great Lakes

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Clinical Nurse Specialist Related Rankings by Major

One of 23 majors within the Nursing area of study, Clinical Nurse Specialist has other similar majors worth exploring.

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Nursing Practice	7,474
Nurse Anesthetist	1,403
Registered Nursing	976
Nursing Science	927
Nursing Administration	725
Family Practice Nurse/Nursing	683
Other Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing	339
Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing	193
Adult Health Nurse/Nursing	88
Critical Care Nursing	55

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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.