Best DNP Programs

DNP Programs By State

CCNE accredits 394 institutions to award the Doctor of Nursing Practice. Every US state has at least one, as do the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.

Every Jurisdiction

Alphabetical. The large figure is how many institutions CCNE lists; the line under it is how many of those the federal survey also publishes tuition and conferral figures for.

  • Alabama

    10 accredited institutions

    8 with federal figures · from $8,832 in-state

  • Alaska

    1 accredited institution

    None carry federal tuition or conferral figures

  • Arizona

    7 accredited institutions

    5 with federal figures · from $9,552 in-state

  • Arkansas

    3 accredited institutions

    3 with federal figures · from $7,362 in-state

  • California

    19 accredited institutions

    16 with federal figures · from $6,084 in-state

  • Colorado

    7 accredited institutions

    3 with federal figures · from $9,022 in-state

  • Connecticut

    7 accredited institutions

    5 with federal figures · from $17,010 in-state

  • Delaware

    2 accredited institutions

    2 with federal figures · from $12,570 in-state

  • District of Columbia

    4 accredited institutions

    2 with federal figures · from $56,930 in-state

  • Florida

    17 accredited institutions

    15 with federal figures · from $2,522 in-state

  • Georgia

    9 accredited institutions

    5 with federal figures · from $4,488 in-state

  • Hawaii

    4 accredited institutions

    4 with federal figures · from $7,344 in-state

  • Idaho

    2 accredited institutions

    2 with federal figures · from $6,104 in-state

  • Illinois

    18 accredited institutions

    15 with federal figures · from $8,918 in-state

  • Indiana

    13 accredited institutions

    9 with federal figures · from $8,848 in-state

  • Iowa

    6 accredited institutions

    6 with federal figures · from $9,286 in-state

  • Kansas

    5 accredited institutions

    3 with federal figures · from $6,342 in-state

  • Kentucky

    8 accredited institutions

    7 with federal figures · from $8,604 in-state

  • Louisiana

    7 accredited institutions

    7 with federal figures · from $4,973 in-state

  • Maine

    2 accredited institutions

    None carry federal tuition or conferral figures

  • Maryland

    5 accredited institutions

    4 with federal figures · from $5,032 in-state

  • Massachusetts

    12 accredited institutions

    11 with federal figures · from $14,897 in-state

  • Michigan

    13 accredited institutions

    12 with federal figures · from $12,930 in-state

  • Minnesota

    12 accredited institutions

    6 with federal figures · from $8,388 in-state

  • Mississippi

    4 accredited institutions

    3 with federal figures · from $8,392 in-state

  • Missouri

    9 accredited institutions

    7 with federal figures · from $8,120 in-state

  • Montana

    1 accredited institution

    1 with federal figures · from $6,299 in-state

  • Nebraska

    3 accredited institutions

    3 with federal figures · from $11,416 in-state

  • Nevada

    3 accredited institutions

    2 with federal figures · from $8,430 in-state

  • New Hampshire

    2 accredited institutions

    1 with federal figures · from $15,520 in-state

  • New Jersey

    8 accredited institutions

    6 with federal figures · from $6,838 in-state

  • New Mexico

    2 accredited institutions

    2 with federal figures · from $6,283 in-state

  • New York

    20 accredited institutions

    10 with federal figures · from $7,070 in-state

  • North Carolina

    11 accredited institutions

    10 with federal figures · from $1,000 in-state

  • North Dakota

    3 accredited institutions

    2 with federal figures · from $9,237 in-state

  • Ohio

    19 accredited institutions

    14 with federal figures · from $9,552 in-state

  • Oklahoma

    4 accredited institutions

    3 with federal figures · from $5,448 in-state

  • Oregon

    2 accredited institutions

    2 with federal figures · from $15,624 in-state

  • Pennsylvania

    24 accredited institutions

    20 with federal figures · from $7,716 in-state

  • Puerto Rico

    1 accredited institution

    None carry federal tuition or conferral figures

  • Rhode Island

    3 accredited institutions

    2 with federal figures · from $9,765 in-state

  • South Carolina

    6 accredited institutions

    5 with federal figures · from $10,394 in-state

  • South Dakota

    2 accredited institutions

    2 with federal figures · from $7,773 in-state

  • Tennessee

    13 accredited institutions

    12 with federal figures · from $8,120 in-state

  • Texas

    22 accredited institutions

    20 with federal figures · from $4,913 in-state

  • Utah

    3 accredited institutions

    3 with federal figures · from $8,461 in-state

  • Vermont

    1 accredited institution

    None carry federal tuition or conferral figures

  • Virginia

    11 accredited institutions

    9 with federal figures · from $7,800 in-state

  • Washington

    5 accredited institutions

    4 with federal figures · from $11,305 in-state

  • West Virginia

    3 accredited institutions

    3 with federal figures · from $6,702 in-state

  • Wisconsin

    11 accredited institutions

    10 with federal figures · from $7,061 in-state

  • Wyoming

    1 accredited institution

    1 with federal figures · from $5,190 in-state

Why The Two Figures Differ

The first figure counts institutions CCNE lists as holding an accredited DNP. The second counts how many of those also file DNP conferrals to the federal education survey under a nursing classification at doctoral level, which is what makes tuition and conferral figures available for them.

The gap is a filing difference, not a quality difference. A school that reports its doctoral conferrals under a specialty classification, family nurse practitioner, or psychiatric and mental health nurse practitioner, is running the same accredited degree. Johns Hopkins, Yale, Georgetown, Northeastern and Purdue all sit in that gap.

4 jurisdictions, Alaska, Maine, Puerto Rico and Vermont, have accredited DNP programs and no federally classified ones at all. Their pages list the programs without scores rather than showing an empty table.

Sources

  1. 1 CCNE accredited program directory The accreditation roster behind every jurisdiction count on this page.
  2. 2 IPEDS Published tuition, conferrals and completion for the institutions in each state.

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.