Family nurse practitioner programs
All 389 FNP programs in the country, ranked
Every family nurse practitioner program the federal record holds: 389 of them at 323 schools across 50 states, DC and Puerto Rico, ordered on published figures rather than on brochures. 170 can be studied online, 263 award a master's and 124 a doctorate.
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NP practice authority, all 51 jurisdictions
The same license permits different work in different states. See what an FNP is allowed to do
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The same FNP degree buys different work in different states. Pick one and see how many programs it has, what the license permits there, and what the job pays.
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FNP programs, pay, licensure and certification
Where to study, what the license is worth where you land, what the job pays, and which board to sit. Every panel below opens with a figure from the dataset behind it.
MSN, DNP and online FNP programs
389 programs · 323 schools · 16,915 FNP degrees conferred a year
Ordered on published figures rather than on reputation, and split by the degree you would come out with and by how the coursework reaches you.
What family nurse practitioners earn
$132,300 national median · $105,750 to $168,520 by state
One BLS survey, read four ways. The gap between states is wider than the gap between most programs' tuition.
FNP programs by state and city
52 jurisdictions · 53 metro guides
Licensure is a state matter and so is pay. A metro guide answers the one thing a state page cannot: which programs you could actually commute to.
How to become an FNP
28 of 51 jurisdictions grant full practice authority
The route in is the same everywhere. What the license is worth once you hold it is set by the state, and nothing about your program changes it.
FNP-C and FNP-BC certification
2 boards · 500 supervised clinical hours either way
Two bodies certify family nurse practitioners and you only need one. They differ on the exam, the fee and how you renew, and not on what you may then do.
FNP guides and analysis
22 guides on the decisions a ranking cannot make for you
FNP programs in your state
Every state guide carries the programs inside it, what the state lets a nurse practitioner do without a physician, and what BLS says the work pays there.
- New York 36
- Texas 32
- California 21
- Indiana 19
- Ohio 19
- Florida 18
- Pennsylvania 18
- Georgia 12
- Tennessee 12
- Michigan 11
- Alabama 10
- Illinois 10
- Kentucky 10
- Massachusetts 10
- Missouri 10
- Virginia 10
- Iowa 9
- Wisconsin 9
- Connecticut 8
- Louisiana 7
- North Carolina 7
- Minnesota 6
- New Jersey 6
- Utah 6
- West Virginia 6
- South Carolina 5
- Colorado 4
- Maryland 4
- Oklahoma 4
- Washington 4
- Arizona 3
- Idaho 3
- Kansas 3
- Maine 3
- Mississippi 3
- Nebraska 3
- North Dakota 3
- Rhode Island 3
- Arkansas 2
- District of Columbia 2
- Hawaii 2
- Nevada 2
- New Hampshire 2
- New Mexico 2
- Oregon 2
- South Dakota 2
- Alaska 1
- Delaware 1
- Montana 1
- Puerto Rico 1
- Vermont 1
- Wyoming 1
What the 389 FNP programs look like
The catalog holds 389 FNP programs at 323 institutions, which is fewer schools than programs because a university that teaches the master's and the doctorate is counted once per degree. Between them they confer 16,915 family nurse practitioner degrees a year. That figure is the one federal statistic reported for the FNP specialty itself rather than for the nursing school around it, which is why the rankings are ordered on it.
263 of the programs award a master's and 124 award a doctorate, and the distinction matters less than it looks: both certifying boards sit a master's-prepared candidate for the same exam, and no state board requires the doctorate to practice. 170 can be studied online, though every one of them still requires supervised clinical hours worked in person, and finding that placement is the step that delays graduation most often. Coverage runs to 50 states, DC and Puerto Rico.