Nurse Midwife
Add ComparisonIn 2023, the locations with the highest concentration of Nurse Midwife degree recipients are Cincinnati, OH, Philadelphia, PA, and Lubbock, TX. In 2023, the locations with a relatively high number of Nurse Midwife degree recipients are Arden Hills, MN, Winchester, VA, and Cincinnati, OH. The most common degree awarded to students studying Nurse Midwife is a masters degree.
Information about the types of higher education institutions that grant degrees in Nurse Midwife and the types of students that study this field. undefined awards the most degrees in Nurse Midwife in the US, but Frontier Nursing University and SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University have the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Nurse Midwife.
Tuition costs for Nurse Midwife majors are, on average, $11,228 for in-state public colleges, and $55,510 for out of state private colleges.
The most common sector, by number of institutions, that offers Nurse Midwife programs are Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above institutions (15 total). The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded, is Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above (431 completions).
The following bar chart shows the state tuition for the top 5 institutions with the most degrees awarded in Nurse Midwife.
Out of all institutions that offer Nurse Midwife programs and have at least 5 graduates in those programs, Frontier Nursing University has the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Nurse Midwife, with 31.1%.
This map shows the counties in the United States colored by the highest number of degrees awarded in Nurse Midwife by year.
Demographic information for those who earn a degree in Health in the United States.
The most common degree types awarded to students graduating in Nurse Midwife are Masters Degree, Post-Masters Certificate, and Professional Doctorate.
The most common degree types held by the working population in Health are Bachelors Degree, Masters Degree, and Professional degree.
This chart shows the granted degrees by sex at the N/A institutions that graduate the most students in Nurse Midwife.
This chart shows the number of degrees awarded in Nurse Midwife for each race & ethnicity. White students earned the largest share of the degrees with this major.
This chart illustrates the differences by sex for each race & ethnicity of Masters Degree recipients in Nurse Midwife.
White Female students, who earn most of the degrees in this field, are the most common combination of race/ethnicity and sex.
There are a relatively high number of people that were born in Philippines that hold Health degrees (5.07 times more than expected), and the most common country of origin by total numbers for non-US students earning a degree in this field is Philippines (208,734 degree recipients).
Data on the critical and distinctive skills necessary for those working in the Nurse Midwife field from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Nurse Midwife majors need many skills, but most especially Critical Thinking. The revealed comparative advantage (RCA) shows that Nurse Midwife majors need more than the average amount of Service Orientation, Social Perceptiveness, and Coordination.
These two visualizations, one a radial chart and one a bar chart, show the same information, a rating of how necessary the following skills are for Nurse Midwife majors. Toggle between "value" and "RCA" to see the absolute rating of that skill (value) and the revealed comparative advantage (RCA), or how much greater or lesser that skill's rating is than the average. The longer the bar or the closer the line comes to the circumference of the circle, the more important that skill is. The importance of Service Orientation is very distinctive for majors, but the Critical Thinking, Active Listening, and Speaking are the three most important skills for people in the field.
