Every nursing school in the United States

3,496 nursing schools across every state and territory, each with the credentials it awards, its state board approval and NCLEX pass rate, and its accreditation.

Browse by state See the map How we count

Where the schools are

Loading the map… NCLEX 90% and above 80 to 89% under 80% no board rate board-listed, placed at its city 754 board-listed programs in the United States have no federal record, so each ring marks the city the board prints, not a campus. 333 board-listed programs have no city on the board’s list and no point; they are in the table below.

Schools by credential

A school counts once under each credential it awards. What each credential means.

954Practical nursing (LPN/LVN)

77RN diploma or certificate

1,084Associate's in nursing

1,113Bachelor's in nursing

656Master's and post-master's

406Doctorate in nursing

73Nurse anesthesia

123Other nursing awards

Nursing schools by state

“Board data” says how much of the state board’s own list is on these pages. A state whose board blocks reads or publishes no list shows no NCLEX rates; that is a gap in the source, not a state with no programs.

State	Schools	On the map	Board data	With an NCLEX rate	Nursing awards
Alabama	50	42	Read in part	31	8,529
Alaska	7	4	Read in part	1	264
American Samoa	1	1	Board publishes no list	–	20
Arizona	39	39	Board site blocks reads	–	13,733
Arkansas	51	41	Read in part	32	3,789
California	273	216	Read in part	170	28,035
Colorado	48	34	Read in full	23	3,704
Connecticut	35	23	Read in full	15	4,270
Delaware	12	7	Read in full	5	1,032
District of Columbia	10	8	Read in full	5	1,078
Florida	283	140	Read in full	126	22,648
Georgia	62	62	Board site blocks reads	–	8,065
Guam	2	2	Board publishes no list	–	48
Hawaii	9	8	Read in full	6	690
Idaho	13	12	Read in full	11	1,738
Illinois	129	97	Read in full	72	22,602
Indiana	52	38	Read in full	28	8,209
Iowa	41	38	Read in full	31	5,158
Kansas	50	44	Read in full	37	3,019
Kentucky	53	46	Read in full	40	12,475
Louisiana	59	47	Read in full	34	4,618
Maine	19	17	Read in full	15	1,287
Marshall Islands	1	1	Not yet read	–	13
Maryland	33	30	Read in full	26	4,158
Massachusetts	78	62	Read in full	40	6,769
Michigan	84	68	Read in full	56	7,951
Micronesia	1	1	Not yet read	–	20
Minnesota	71	55	Read in part	33	20,365
Mississippi	27	26	Read in part	24	3,707
Missouri	92	72	Read in full	49	6,510
Montana	24	14	Read in full	10	890
Nebraska	21	17	Read in full	13	2,247
Nevada	22	16	Read in full	11	2,470
New Hampshire	21	18	Read in part	15	2,043
New Jersey	109	62	Read in full	44	7,404
New Mexico	33	24	Read in full	16	1,672
New York	215	150	Read in part	84	18,109
North Carolina	106	97	Read in part	89	8,386
North Dakota	15	14	Read in full	13	1,208
Northern Mariana Islands	1	1	Board publishes no list	–	27
Ohio	203	147	Read in full	91	16,026
Oklahoma	91	62	Read in full	44	4,303
Oregon	40	29	Read in full	25	2,304
Pennsylvania	177	147	Read in full	92	12,919
Puerto Rico	53	53	Board publishes no list	–	5,245
Rhode Island	11	8	Read in part	4	1,256
South Carolina	54	45	Read in full	33	3,857
South Dakota	15	15	Read in full	10	1,123
Tennessee	98	75	Read in full	59	7,182
Texas	182	143	Read in full	110	25,894
U.S. Virgin Islands	1	1	Board publishes no list	–	31
Utah	34	28	Read in part	25	14,023
Vermont	3	3	Read in part	–	642
Virginia	110	72	Read in full	57	9,029
Washington	53	48	Read in full	36	4,138
West Virginia	61	48	Read in part	20	2,256
Wisconsin	50	44	Read in full	37	6,309
Wyoming	8	8	Read in full	8	631

Sources

Schools and nursing awards: U.S. Department of Education, IPEDS Completions (2023-24 award year, with 2022-23 for schools that did not report the later year). Program approval and NCLEX pass rates: each state board of nursing, linked on every state page. Accreditation: ACEN, CCNE, CNEA, COA public directories. Program details: the schools’ own nursing pages, linked beside each quote. The unit, the boundary and the rules behind every number: How we count.