2025 Best Nursing Doctor's Degree Schools in Arkansas

Nursing is of the hottest doctor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #5 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 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Nursing Doctor's Degree Schools in Arkansas ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 57 doctor's degrees in nursing to qualified students.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Doctor’s Degree Schools List

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of doctorate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their doctor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

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

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Nursing Doctor's Degree Schools in Arkansas list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Nursing in Arkansas

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

Top Arkansas Schools for a Doctorate in Nursing

1

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Little Rock, AR

34 Annual Graduates

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences is a wonderful option for individuals pursuing a doctor's degree in nursing. UAMS is a small public university located in the midsize city of Little Rock.More information about a doctorate in nursing from University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

2

University of Central Arkansas
Conway, AR

15 Annual Graduates

Any student who is interested in a doctor's degree in nursing needs to look into University of Central Arkansas. Located in the city of Conway, UCA is a public university with a moderately-sized student population.More information about a doctorate in nursing from University of Central Arkansas

Best Nursing Colleges in the Southeast Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	138	636
Virginia	127	237
Georgia	126	236
North Carolina	115	372
Mississippi	113	50
Louisiana	103	147
Tennessee	102	344
Alabama	98	490
South Carolina	91	79
Kentucky	87	404
West Virginia	49	36

View All Rankings >

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	57

Majors Similar to Nursing

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Medicine	288
Rehabilitation & Therapeutic Professions	239
Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences	113
Communication Sciences	9
Health Sciences & Services	4
Public Health	3
Medical Illustration & Informatics	1

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.