DNP Programs By City

50 metropolitan areas where at least two institutions hold a CCNE-accredited Doctor of Nursing Practice, which is what makes a guide a comparison rather than a single entry. Together they hold 165 accredited institutions, and most of these guides cover two, so each one says how many it is comparing before it compares them.

A metropolitan area with one accredited institution has no guide here. Its school appears on the state page instead, where a single program is the honest shape for the answer rather than a ranked table with one row in it.

Every Metro With A Guide

Ordered by how many accredited institutions each one holds. Each guide counts the census metropolitan area rather than the city limits, and says which municipalities that includes.

Philadelphia

11 accredited institutions

4 public · $9,288 to $36,234 in-state · NP median $135,700

Crosses Pennsylvania and New Jersey and Delaware, and practice authority changes with it
Chicago

9 accredited institutions

1 public · $12,222 to $38,013 in-state · NP median $131,740

Crosses Illinois and Indiana
New York City

8 accredited institutions

2 public · $11,310 to $46,575 in-state · NP median $163,340

Crosses New York and New Jersey, and practice authority changes with it
Los Angeles

7 accredited institutions

4 public · $7,176 to $25,956 in-state · NP median $161,470
Boston

6 accredited institutions

2 public · $15,330 to $59,275 in-state · NP median $147,480
Pittsburgh

6 accredited institutions

1 public · $9,288 to $26,568 in-state · NP median $119,630
Miami

6 accredited institutions

2 public · $5,467 to $43,578 in-state · NP median $131,340
Dallas-Fort Worth

5 accredited institutions

2 public · $5,184 to $35,730 in-state · NP median $130,980
Houston

5 accredited institutions

4 public · $5,191 to $20,934 in-state · NP median $134,560
Detroit

4 accredited institutions

2 public · $17,640 to $22,250 in-state · NP median $134,390
St. Louis

4 accredited institutions

2 public · $7,700 to $23,580 in-state · NP median $131,580

Crosses Missouri and Illinois, and practice authority changes with it
Washington DC

4 accredited institutions

1 public · $13,726 to $52,190 in-state · NP median $134,840

Crosses District of Columbia and Virginia, and practice authority changes with it
Milwaukee

4 accredited institutions

1 public · $9,876 to $23,845 in-state · NP median $134,350
Baltimore

3 accredited institutions

2 public · $6,786 to $62,840 in-state · NP median $131,990
Cincinnati

3 accredited institutions

2 public · $10,206 to $13,885 in-state · NP median $128,700

Crosses Ohio and Kentucky
Cleveland

3 accredited institutions

1 public · $10,840 to $52,360 in-state · NP median $130,800
Omaha

3 accredited institutions

1 public · $9,207 to $17,676 in-state · NP median $133,760
Honolulu

3 accredited institutions

1 public · $15,600 to $26,040 in-state · NP median $135,570
Minneapolis-St. Paul

3 accredited institutions

All private · $10,160 to $15,066 in-state · NP median $133,370
Phoenix

3 accredited institutions

1 public · $10,138 to $16,215 in-state · NP median $136,270
San Francisco

3 accredited institutions

1 public · $12,264 to $57,326 in-state · NP median $219,080
Providence

3 accredited institutions

All public · $8,910 to $16,390 in-state · NP median $135,520

Crosses Rhode Island and Massachusetts
Indianapolis

3 accredited institutions

1 public · $9,648 to $40,994 in-state · NP median $130,460
Springfield

3 accredited institutions

1 public · $14,723 to $19,235 in-state · NP median $138,460
Scranton-Wilkes-Barre

3 accredited institutions

All private · $11,580 to $36,650 in-state · NP median $126,820
Birmingham

2 accredited institutions

1 public · $8,424 to $21,904 in-state
Memphis

2 accredited institutions

1 public · from $13,167 in-state
Salt Lake City

2 accredited institutions

1 public · $7,353 to $16,324 in-state
Tampa

2 accredited institutions

1 public · $8,350 to $12,762 in-state
Jacksonville

2 accredited institutions

1 public · $8,570 to $18,577 in-state
New Orleans

2 accredited institutions

1 public · $11,835 to $20,524 in-state
Nashville

2 accredited institutions

All private · $26,100 to $54,744 in-state
Knoxville

2 accredited institutions

1 public · $11,468 to $26,764 in-state
Madison

2 accredited institutions

1 public · $10,728 to $19,656 in-state
San Diego

2 accredited institutions

All private · $11,880 to $28,854 in-state
Winston-Salem

2 accredited institutions

1 public · $3,872 to $38,650 in-state
Bridgeport-Stamford

2 accredited institutions

All private · $20,625 to $34,060 in-state
Louisville

2 accredited institutions

1 public · $13,785 to $14,222 in-state
Columbus

2 accredited institutions

All private · $12,060 to $19,550 in-state
San Antonio

2 accredited institutions

1 public · $3,239 to $19,800 in-state
Seattle-Tacoma

2 accredited institutions

All private · $15,012 to $32,476 in-state
Rochester

2 accredited institutions

All private · $19,692 to $38,083 in-state
Portland

2 accredited institutions

1 public · $21,375 to $26,100 in-state
Sioux City

2 accredited institutions

All private · $8,268 to $11,111 in-state
Denver

2 accredited institutions

All private · $14,573 to $15,509 in-state
Hartford

2 accredited institutions

1 public · $16,971 to $18,834 in-state
Greenville

2 accredited institutions

1 public · $11,220 to $14,763 in-state
Durham-Chapel Hill

2 accredited institutions

1 public · $10,552 to $62,620 in-state
Akron

2 accredited institutions

All public · $8,325 to $12,483 in-state
Toledo

2 accredited institutions

1 public · $15,354 to $16,576 in-state

Why These Thirteen And Not Fifty

A metro guide is worth writing when it can put a real shortlist in front of a reader, and that takes about four accredited institutions. Below that the page is a list of one or two schools wearing a city's name, and the state guide already does that job better. Atlanta has one accredited doctorate. Nashville has two. Baltimore, Minneapolis and Phoenix have three each, and none of them has a page here for that reason rather than because of their size.

The thirteen below are the ones that clear it once a real metropolitan definition is applied rather than the city limits. That distinction does most of the work: New York City itself holds two accredited doctorates, and the metropolitan area holds eight, spread across Nassau, Rockland and Suffolk counties and three counties in New Jersey.

7 of the 50 cross a state line, and 4 of those change what a nurse practitioner license permits when they do. That is the fact a city name hides and the reason these pages exist as more than a convenience.

If Your City Is Not Here

Start with the state guide rather than the nearest metro. Every jurisdiction has one, they carry every accredited institution in the state rather than only those inside a metropolitan boundary, and for a program you would attend at a distance the boundary means nothing at all. DNP programs by state lists all 52.

And it is worth questioning the premise, because for a practice doctorate proximity to a campus is usually the wrong constraint. What has to be near you is the SUPERVISED PRACTICE: a thousand post-baccalaureate hours served with a preceptor in a real clinic, which happens where you live rather than where the school is. Taught content increasingly reaches you anywhere. So the question that decides most of these is not which campus you can drive to, it is whether a program will place you near home, and that is answered by the school rather than by any ranking.

Online DNP programs ranks the distance-flagged field nationally, and the A-to-Z directory lists every accredited institution on the site regardless of where it sits.

Sources

1 CCNE accredited program directory Which institutions hold accreditation for the doctorate, and therefore which metros have a field worth comparing.
2 IPEDS Published tuition and the city each institution reports, which is what places it inside a metro.
3 BLS Occupational Employment And Wage Statistics, Metropolitan Area Cut The nurse practitioner median for each metro. A different survey area from the state figures, so the two do not reconcile and are not meant to.
4 AANP State Practice Environment Which metros change practice authority across a state line.

Every federal figure on this site is read from the administering agency’s own page, never from a secondary aggregator, and the reading date is recorded beside it.