2025 Best Nursing Science Doctor's Degree Schools in Georgia

If you pursue a doctor's degree in nursing science, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #29 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 3 schools in Georgia to determine which ones were the best for nursing science students pursuing a doctor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 130 doctor's degrees in nursing science during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Doctor’s Degree Schools List

Choosing a Great Nursing Science School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of nursing science for getting your doctor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality nursing science 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

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection 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 nursing science students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other nursing science students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
• 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 nursing science related body.

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

More Ways to Rank Nursing Science Schools

The nursing science school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Nursing Science Doctor's Degree Schools in Georgia.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Nursing Science in Georgia

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

Top Georgia Schools for a Doctorate in Nursing Science

1

Emory University
Atlanta, GA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

6 Annual Graduates

Emory University is a wonderful choice for students interested in a doctor's degree in nursing science. Emory is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Atlanta.More information about a doctorate in nursing science from Emory University

2

Augusta University
Augusta, GA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

108 Annual Graduates

Augusta University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a doctor's degree in nursing science. Augusta University is a medium-sized public university located in the medium-sized city of Augusta.More information about a doctorate in nursing science from Augusta University

3

Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

14 Annual Graduates

Georgia State University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a doctor's degree in nursing science. Georgia State is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Atlanta.More information about a doctorate in nursing science from Georgia State University

Best Nursing Science Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Nursing Science Colleges in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	217	33
North Carolina	190	34
Virginia	182	10
Mississippi	154	5
Tennessee	150	16
Louisiana	146	1
Alabama	139	6
South Carolina	135	8
Kentucky	119	8
Arkansas	74	1
West Virginia	61	1

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Nursing Science Related Rankings by Major

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

Majors Similar to Nursing Science

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Nursing Practice	130
Nurse Anesthetist	13
Other Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing	11
Family Practice Nurse/Nursing	10
Adult Health Nurse/Nursing	8
Registered Nursing	7

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.