2025 Best Nursing Master's Degree Schools in New Hampshire

Nursing is of the hottest master's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #2 most popular major in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.

College Factual looked at 5 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Nursing Master's Degree Schools in New Hampshire ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 427 master'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 Master's Degree

Your choice of nursing for getting your master's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

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 master'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 master'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 colleges for nursing students working on their master's degree.

More Ways to Rank Nursing Schools

Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Nursing Master's Degree Schools in New Hampshire list, to help you choose the best school for you.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Nursing in New Hampshire

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in nursing.

Top New Hampshire Schools for a Master's in Nursing

1

University of New Hampshire - Main Campus
Durham, NH

50 Annual Graduates

$96,636 Median Starting Salary

University of New Hampshire - Main Campus is one of the best schools in the country for getting a master's degree in nursing. Located in the town of Durham, UNH is a public university with a fairly large student population.

After graduating, nursing master's recipients usually earn around $96,636 in the first five years of their career.

More information about a master’s in nursing from University of New Hampshire - Main Campus

2

Southern New Hampshire University
Manchester, NH

231 Annual Graduates

Every student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in nursing needs to check out Southern New Hampshire University. SNHU is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the midsize suburb of Manchester.More information about a master’s in nursing from Southern New Hampshire University

3

Rivier University
Nashua, NH

111 Annual Graduates

$109,598 Median Starting Salary

Rivier University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a master's degree in nursing. Rivier is a small private not-for-profit university located in the city of Nashua.

Those nursing students who get their master's degree from Rivier University earn $6,481 more than the typical nursing grad.

More information about a master’s in nursing from Rivier University

4

Colby - Sawyer College
New London, NH

14 Annual Graduates

Colby - Sawyer College is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a master's degree in nursing. Colby - Sawyer is a small private not-for-profit college located in the rural area of New London.More information about a master’s in nursing from Colby - Sawyer College

5

Franklin Pierce University
Rindge, NH

17 Annual Graduates

Franklin Pierce is a small private not-for-profit university located in the rural area of Rindge.More information about a master’s in nursing from Franklin Pierce University

Best Nursing Colleges in the New England Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts	222	1,441
Connecticut	153	506
Rhode Island	127	62
Vermont	91	0
Maine	90	125

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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 Administration	234
Nursing Science	125
Registered Nursing	43
Family Practice Nurse/Nursing	15
Nursing Practice	9
Clinical Nurse Leader	1

Majors Similar to Nursing

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Health & Medical Administrative Services	545
Mental & Social Health Services	378
Public Health	336
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions	50
Allied Health Professions	28
Communication Sciences	24
Movement & Mind-Body Therapies	10
Dietetics & Clinical Nutrition Services	7
Bioethics/Medical Ethics	4
Other Health Professions	4

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.