Schools of Nursing Enrollment Increases Across Most Program Levels, Signaling Strong Interest in Nursing Careers New data released today by AACN show increases in the student population across most undergraduate and graduate programs at U.S. nursing schools, reversing some recent downward trends. Tuesday, June 17, 2025 | Education, Enrollment, Press Release, Research & Data
Rounds with Leadership: Alleviating the Nursing Shortage: Connecting Qualified Applicants to Open Seats Efforts to address the U.S. nursing shortage are accelerating with a flurry of recent news reports focused on state-led initiatives to meet workforce demands. Wednesday, April 30, 2025 | Education, Enrollment, Rounds with Leadership
Streamline Your Nursing Admissions: Join the NursingCAS Overview Webinar AACN’s Nursing Centralized Application Service (NursingCAS) is hosting a NursingCAS Overview: A Demonstration of the Student Application and Admissions Management Portal webinar, on Tuesday,... Tuesday, January 7, 2025 | Education, Enrollment
Rounds with Leadership: Seeking Solutions to the Faculty Shortage For nearly two decades, AACN has worked to quantify the shortage of nurse educators and its impact on pathways into the profession and nursing school enrollments. Released on October 3,... Wednesday, October 30, 2024 | Education, Enrollment, Rounds with Leadership
Launch of 2024-2025 NursingCAS Application Cycle The 2024-2025 NursingCAS Application Cycle opened on August 8 to students applying for admission to nursing programs in the following semesters: Summer 2025, Fall 2025, Winter 2026, and Spring... Tuesday, August 13, 2024 | Education, Enrollment
New AACN Data Points to Enrollment Challenges Facing U.S. Schools of Nursing New data released today by AACN show that sustaining student enrollment in baccalaureate and graduate programs continues to be a challenge at U.S. schools of nursing. Though enrollment in... Monday, April 15, 2024 | Enrollment, Press Release, Research & Data
Data Spotlight: A Closer Look at PhD in Nursing Program Enrollment and Graduations In 2023, AACN reported a 4.1% decline in enrollment and a 4.8% decrease in graduation rates for research-focused doctoral nursing programs from 2021 to 2022, with the North Atlantic region... Tuesday, November 28, 2023 | Education, Enrollment, Research & Data, Data Spotlights
Data Spotlight: Changes in Master’s Program Enrollments and Graduations In May 2023, AACN aacnounced a second consecutive year of decline at 9.45% on average, with the western region experiencing the most significant drop at 12.49%. Historically Black Colleges... Tuesday, September 5, 2023 | Enrollment, Research & Data, Data Spotlights
Rounds with Leadership: Helping to Meet Your Enrollment Targets Given last fall’s enrollment declines and new concerns about the impact of the Supreme Court decision on race-conscious admissions, many academic leaders are anxious about what the new fall... Wednesday, August 30, 2023 | Enrollment, Rounds with Leadership
AACN’s NursingCAS Virtual Fair: Register Now! NursingCAS provides colleges with a FREE admissions platform to efficiently manage data-driven application reviews in cloud-based software. Learn why over 250 colleges of nursing used NursingCAS... Wednesday, August 16, 2023 | Education, Enrollment, Membership Announcements
Data Spotlight: Declines in RN-to-BSN Program Enrollments For the fourth year in a row, enrollment in RN to Baccalaureate (RN-to-BSN) program have decreased. The 2022-2023 school year saw a 16.9% decline (19,871 students) in RN-BSN programs in schools... Monday, July 10, 2023 | Education, Enrollment, Research & Data, Data Spotlights
Rounds with Leadership: A Closer Look at the AACN Data Earlier this month, AACN released findings from our Fall 2022 annual survey, which show declining student enrollment across nursing program levels. AACN staff are working to discern the causes of... Wednesday, May 31, 2023 | Enrollment, Research & Data, Rounds with Leadership
Data Spotlight: A Closer Look at Enrollment and Graduation Trends In 2022, for the first time since 2000, enrollment in generic baccalaureate programs declined slightly compared to the previous year. When comparing the schools that reported in both 2021 and... Monday, May 22, 2023 | Enrollment, Research & Data, Data Spotlights
New Data Show Enrollment Declines in Schools of Nursing, Raising Concerns About the Nation’s Nursing Workforce According to new data released today by AACN, the number of students in entry-level baccalaureate nursing programs decreased by 1.4% last year, ending a 20-year period of enrollment growth in... Tuesday, May 2, 2023 | Education, Enrollment, Press Release, Research & Data
Data Spotlight: Men In Nursing: Five-Year Trends Show No Growth Based on data from AACN’s Annual Survey of baccalaureate and higher degree programs, the percentage of male nurses enrolled in nursing programs varied by degree level. Monday, April 3, 2023 | Enrollment, Research & Data, Data Spotlights