2025 Best Family Practice Nurse/Nursing Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

If you pursue a doctor's degree in family practice nurse/nursing, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #49 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 8 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to determine which ones were the best for family practice nurse/nursing students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 78 doctor's degrees in family practice nurse/nursing during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Family Practice Nurse/Nursing School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of family practice nurse/nursing for getting your doctor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality family practice nursing program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to family practice nurse/nursing students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other family practice nurse/nursing students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized family practice nurse/nursing related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for family practice nurse/nursing students working on their doctor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Family Practice Nurse/Nursing in the Middle Atlantic Region

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in family practice nurse/nursing.

Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools for a Doctorate in Family Practice Nursing

1

SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
Brooklyn, NY

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

17 Annual Graduates

Every student pursuing a degree in a doctor's degree in family practice nurse/nursing needs to take a look at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University. SUNY Downstate is a small public university located in the large city of Brooklyn.More information about a doctorate in family practice nurse/nursing from SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University

2

University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

17 Annual Graduates

It's difficult to beat University at Buffalo if you want to pursue a doctor's degree in family practice nurse/nursing. Located in the suburb of Buffalo, University at Buffalo is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in family practice nurse/nursing from University at Buffalo

3

University of Rochester
Rochester, NY

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

6 Annual Graduates

Every student who is interested in a doctor's degree in family practice nurse/nursing has to take a look at University of Rochester. Located in the medium-sized city of Rochester, University of Rochester is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population.More information about a doctorate in family practice nurse/nursing from University of Rochester

4

Pace University - New York
New York, NY

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

6 Annual Graduates

It is difficult to beat Pace University - New York if you wish to pursue a doctor's degree in family practice nurse/nursing. Located in the large city of New York, Pace University is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population.More information about a doctorate in family practice nurse/nursing from Pace University - New York

5

Hofstra University
Hempstead, NY

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

5 Annual Graduates

Located in the suburb of Hempstead, Hofstra is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population.More information about a doctorate in family practice nurse/nursing from Hofstra University

6

Hunter College
New York, NY

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

3 Annual Graduates

Located in the city of New York, Hunter is a public college with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in family practice nurse/nursing from Hunter College

7

Widener University
Chester, PA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

2 Annual Graduates

Widener is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Chester.More information about a doctorate in family practice nurse/nursing from Widener University

8

Holy Family University
Philadelphia, PA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

5 Annual Graduates

Holy Family is a small private not-for-profit university located in the city of Philadelphia.More information about a doctorate in family practice nurse/nursing from Holy Family University

Best Family Practice Nurse/Nursing Colleges by State

Explore the best family practice nurse/nursing colleges for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	366	31
Pennsylvania	311	28
New Jersey	165	1
District of Columbia	143	0

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Rankings in Majors Related to Family Practice Nursing

One of 23 majors within the Nursing area of study, Family Practice Nurse/Nursing has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Family Practice Nursing

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Nursing Practice	615
Nursing Science	294
Registered Nursing	231
Nurse Anesthetist	206
Nursing Administration	159
Adult Health Nurse/Nursing	40
Clinical Nurse Specialist	31
Other Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing	27
Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing	22
Critical Care Nursing	14

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.