2025 Best Nursing Doctor's Degree Schools in New York

If you pursue a doctor's degree in nursing, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #5 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.

In 2025, College Factual analyzed 11 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Nursing Doctor's Degree Schools in New York ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 410 doctor's degrees in nursing to qualified students.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Choosing a Great Nursing School for Your Doctor's Degree

The nursing doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

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 include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their doctor's degree from the school. After all, your doctor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

Other Factors We Consider

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

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to nursing students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other nursing 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.
• Student Debt - How much debt nursing students go into to obtain their doctor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized nursing related body.

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

More Ways to Rank Nursing Schools

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

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Nursing in New York

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

10 Top New York Schools for a Doctorate in Nursing

1

New York University
New York, NY

31 Annual Graduates

$163,787 Median Starting Salary

It's difficult to beat New York University if you want to pursue a doctor's degree in nursing. NYU is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of New York.

Nursing doctor's degree recipients from New York University earn a boost of around $8,886 over the average earnings of nursing majors.

More information about a doctorate in nursing from New York University

2

Molloy College
Rockville Centre, NY

10 Annual Graduates

It is hard to beat Molloy College if you want to pursue a doctor's degree in nursing. Located in the large suburb of Rockville Centre, Molloy is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.More information about a doctorate in nursing from Molloy College

3

SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
Brooklyn, NY

17 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a doctor's degree in nursing needs to take a look at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University. Located in the large city of Brooklyn, SUNY Downstate is a public university with a small student population.More information about a doctorate in nursing from SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University

4

University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY

93 Annual Graduates

$143,056 Median Starting Salary

University at Buffalo is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a doctor's degree in nursing. University at Buffalo is a very large public university located in the large suburb of Buffalo.

After graduation, nursing doctorate recipients generally make an average of $143,056 in the first five years of their career.

More information about a doctorate in nursing from University at Buffalo

5

University of Rochester
Rochester, NY

10 Annual Graduates

University of Rochester is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the medium-sized city of Rochester.More information about a doctorate in nursing from University of Rochester

6

Pace University - New York
New York, NY

15 Annual Graduates

$167,781 Median Starting Salary

Pace University is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of New York.

Nursing doctor's degree recipients from Pace University - New York receive an earnings boost of approximately $12,880 over the average income of nursing majors.

More information about a doctorate in nursing from Pace University - New York

7

Binghamton University
Vestal, NY

11 Annual Graduates

Binghamton University is a large public university located in the suburb of Vestal.More information about a doctorate in nursing from Binghamton University

8

Hofstra University
Hempstead, NY

19 Annual Graduates

Hofstra is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Hempstead.More information about a doctorate in nursing from Hofstra University

9

Wagner College
Staten Island, NY

10 Annual Graduates

Wagner is a small private not-for-profit college located in the large city of Staten Island.More information about a doctorate in nursing from Wagner College

10

Hunter College
New York, NY

12 Annual Graduates

Hunter is a fairly large public college located in the large city of New York.More information about a doctorate in nursing from Hunter College

Best Nursing Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Nursing Schools in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Pennsylvania	176	483
Maryland	119	248
New Jersey	115	209
District of Columbia	81	52
Delaware	53	44

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Rankings in Majors Related to Nursing

One of 34 majors within the Health Professions area of study, Nursing has other similar majors worth exploring.

Nursing Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Nursing Practice	138
Family Practice Nurse/Nursing	71
Nursing Science	48
Registered Nursing	40
Adult Health Nurse/Nursing	40
Nurse Anesthetist	25
Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse/Nursing	22
Critical Care Nursing	14
Other Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing	4
School Nursing	3

Most Popular Majors Related to Nursing

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Medicine	2,690
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions	1,115
Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences	914
Dentistry	769
Chiropractic	134
Optometry	98
Communication Sciences	57
Public Health	30
Mental & Social Health Services	9
Other Health Professions	8

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.