Best DNP Programs In New York 2026

• CCNE-accredited
• Public
• Doctorate (professional)

4 DNP tracks at this institution, Adult health, Family nurse practitioner, Maternal/Child Health and Neonatal Nurse/Nursing, Pediatric. Ranked once, on the largest.

Stony Brook is only taking advanced standing applicants at present, which narrows the field sharply: you need a master’s as an advanced nurse practitioner or a certified nurse midwife to apply at all. On that route the program is 42 credits with a minimum of 500 scholarly practice hours, counted toward the 1,000 post-baccalaureate hours the degree requires. The full program, when it is open, is 87 credits against the same 1,000-hour floor. Registered nurse licensure has to be in place before the fall semester starts rather than at application. Doctoral students must carry their own malpractice insurance, a real cost most schools never mention. The grade point average floor is 3.0, and three letters of recommendation are asked for.

In-State Tuition

$7,070

Out-Of-State

$28,880

DNP Awards

4

UG Completion

76%

• CCNE-accredited
• Private nonprofit
• Doctorate (professional)

Dominican builds its doctorate around a residency rather than a capstone bolted on at the end. A one-credit course introduces the residency, and Residency I carries four credits, pairing clinical practicum with scholarly work so the project grows inside supervised practice instead of running alongside it. That structure matters if you want the doctoral project to be something you do at work rather than a paper you write after hours. This is a small university of about 1,400 students, and against that size it confers nursing doctorates at one of the higher rates in the country. The program carries no distance flag in its federal filing, so plan on being in Orangeburg rather than at a distance.

In-State Tuition

$33,120

Out-Of-State

$33,120

DNP Awards

13

UG Completion

53%

• CCNE-accredited
• Public
• Doctorate (professional)

2 DNP tracks at this institution, Family nurse practitioner, Psychiatric-mental health NP. Ranked once, on the largest.

Binghamton runs two routes, and the advanced standing one carries a condition most schools do not impose: you must already hold national certification as a nurse practitioner or clinical nurse specialist, in one of the four clinical areas Decker itself offers, which are family, community health, adult-gerontology primary care and family psychiatric mental health. Certification in a specialty the college does not teach will not get you in. Both routes want an unencumbered New York registered nurse license, and the bachelor’s route needs it by the time you matriculate rather than at application. The grade point average floor is 3.0 on both. Bachelor’s entry aims at nurses heading for expert clinical practice rather than administration.

In-State Tuition

$7,070

Out-Of-State

$26,950

DNP Awards

2

UG Completion

82%

• CCNE-accredited
• Private nonprofit
• Doctorate (professional)

3 DNP tracks at this institution, Adult health, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Nursing practice (general). Ranked once, on the largest.

Fisher runs two things at very different scales. The standard doctorate is a minimum of 33 credit hours of coursework. Beside it sits a dual-degree program that qualifies you as both an adult-gerontology acute care nurse practitioner and a nurse anesthetist, and that one is 103 credit hours over 36 months, in person, full-time only. There is no part-time version of it. Two credentials out of one sequence is rare, and the credit total states honestly what it costs: roughly three times the standard doctorate. None of the tracks carries a distance flag in the federal filing, so this is a Rochester program rather than a remote one.

In-State Tuition

$40,090

Out-Of-State

$40,090

DNP Awards

3

UG Completion

74%

• CCNE-accredited
• Private nonprofit
• Doctorate (professional)

Adelphi files its doctorate under a geriatric specialty rather than a general one, which is unusual and tells you where the program points: care of older adults rather than a broad advanced practice degree. The college puts the graduate timeline at roughly three years. It also runs the undergraduate route beneath it, and that matters in New York, because state law requires a registered nurse to earn a bachelor’s in nursing within ten years of licensure, so a nurse working through that requirement can do both in one place. The doctorate carries no distance flag in its federal filing, so plan on being on Long Island. It is a small doctoral program inside a mid-sized private university.

In-State Tuition

$46,784

Out-Of-State

$46,784

DNP Awards

4

UG Completion

67%

• CCNE-accredited
• Private nonprofit
• Doctorate (professional)

D’Youville builds your plan of study after reading your transcripts and your documented clinical hours, so what you owe is worked out individually rather than published as a single number. The family practitioner route runs six consecutive semesters and can be finished in as little as two years, full-time or part-time, and you can start in either fall or spring. There is also a psychiatric mental health plan of study written for nurses already practicing as advanced practice registered nurses who want to move into mental health leadership. One detail reflects where the university sits: it publishes commuter arrangements for part-time Canadian students, which matters in Buffalo and almost nowhere else.

In-State Tuition

$33,600

Out-Of-State

$33,600

DNP Awards

2

UG Completion

67%

• CCNE-accredited
• Private nonprofit
• Doctorate (professional)

4 DNP tracks at this institution, Adult health, Critical care, Psychiatric-mental health NP, Registered nursing (general). Ranked once, on the largest.

NYU gives you seven years from the date you matriculate to finish, whichever entry option you take, holding a 3.0 grade point average throughout. Seven years is generous by the standards of this field, and it is the number that matters most if you expect your working life to be unpredictable. The advanced standing route is a minimum of 36 credits, and 400 of its clinical hours are attached specifically to the DNP project rather than to general practice. That is a large share of your hours riding on the project, which is worth knowing because project hours depend on finding a site and a question, and those are the parts that stall.

In-State Tuition

$62,796

Out-Of-State

$62,796

DNP Awards

5

UG Completion

88%

• CCNE-accredited
• Private nonprofit
• Doctorate (professional)

Le Moyne publishes the clinical figure most schools bury: 810 hours of practice embedded into the bachelor’s entry program of study rather than arranged separately alongside it. That route runs either four years full-time or five years part-time. The post-master’s pathway is 29 credits over two years and is scoped to nurses who already hold family practitioner certification. What decides whether this fits a working nurse is the campus pattern: family practitioner coursework meets on campus once a week, on Mondays, and more on-campus meetings get added as you approach the doctoral project. One fixed weekday is easier to plan around than scattered intensives, but it is every week rather than a few times a year.

In-State Tuition

$39,090

Out-Of-State

$39,090

DNP Awards

2

UG Completion

73%

• CCNE-accredited
• Private nonprofit
• Doctorate (professional)

2 DNP tracks at this institution, Family nurse practitioner, Registered nursing (general). Ranked once, on the largest.

Pace runs a 30-credit post-master’s doctorate over two years part-time, entirely online, and sets a higher admission bar than most: a 3.3 grade point average in your master’s, or equivalent professional experience where your grades fall short. That second clause is worth asking about directly, because schools rarely put a route around a GPA floor in writing. The practitioner routes, adult-gerontology acute care, family, and psychiatric mental health, all land at 1,000 supervised practice hours whichever one you take. Anyone coming through the bridge route meets the program director for a gap analysis first, so what you owe is settled before you enroll rather than after. Two years part-time is a realistic clock for a nurse who is not stepping away from work.

In-State Tuition

$51,602

Out-Of-State

$51,602

DNP Awards

4

UG Completion

60%

• CCNE-accredited
• Private nonprofit
• Doctorate (professional)

3 DNP tracks at this institution, Clinical Nurse Leader, Family nurse practitioner, Pediatric. Ranked once, on the largest.

Rochester publishes a narrow window for its part-time post-master’s route, two to two and a half years, which is unusually tight for a part-time doctorate where four to six years is the norm elsewhere. Read that as a structured program rather than a self-paced one: the span is short because the sequence is fixed, not because the workload is light. It is a large private research university and it charges the same rate regardless of residency, at the high end of anything on this site. Its federal filing carries no distance-education flag, so plan on being in Rochester rather than at a distance.

In-State Tuition

$65,870

Out-Of-State

$65,870

DNP Awards

4

UG Completion

85%