{"id":71987,"date":"2016-09-13T08:19:56","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T13:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=71987"},"modified":"2016-09-13T08:19:56","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T13:19:56","slug":"nursing-ranks-among-top-national-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2016\/09\/nursing-ranks-among-top-national-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Nursing ranks among top in national poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AffordableSchools.net (<a class=\"linkOnClick\" href=\"http:\/\/affordableschools.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-include=\"300324729\">http:\/\/affordableschools.net<\/a>) \u2014\u00a0a college rankings site centering on unique and affordable academic programs \u2014 recently\u00a0announced Delta State as one of the\u00a025 Most Affordable Online Master&#8217;s of Nursing Degrees.<\/p>\n<p>Delta State came in at No. 4 in the national ranking.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This new rankings article provides a broader look at the most affordable colleges offering online master&#8217;s degrees in registered nursing in general, to give current nurses an overview of some of the types of advanced-practice registered nurse studies and occupations that are available,&#8221; said the article&#8217;s lead researcher, Raj Dash.<\/p>\n<p>College rankings for this article were compiled with data from National Center for Education Statistics, a bureau of the Dept. of Education (<a class=\"linkOnClick\" href=\"http:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-include=\"300324729\">http:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>AffordableSchools.net first queried for graduate institutions that grant degrees in the NCES categories &#8220;Registered Nursing\/Registered Nurse&#8221; and &#8220;Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing, Other&#8221; on a distance basis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span class=\"s1\">In today\u2019s higher education landscape, affordability has become a hot-button issue, so it is outstanding to be recognized in such a manner,&#8221; said Dr. Glenn F. Boyce, commissioner of Higher Education in Mississippi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>To view the entire Top 25 list, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/affordableschoolsnet-releases-its-affordability-ranking-of-online-masters-level-nursing-degrees-300324729.html\">http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/affordableschoolsnet-releases-its-affordability-ranking-of-online-masters-level-nursing-degrees-300324729.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AffordableSchools.net (http:\/\/affordableschools.net) \u2014\u00a0a college rankings site centering on unique and affordable academic programs \u2014 recently\u00a0announced Delta State as one of the\u00a025 Most Affordable Online Master&#8217;s of Nursing Degrees. Delta State&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":69782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,55,246],"tags":[969,392,391],"class_list":["post-71987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-academics","category-school-of-nursing","category-students","tag-academics-2","tag-nursing","tag-resson"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71987"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71989,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71987\/revisions\/71989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}