Nurse Midwife Nursing Midwifery

A program that prepares registered nurses to independently deliver babies and treat mothers in the prenatal, delivery, and post-delivery periods. Includes instruction in pre-delivery screening, physician referral, and the care of infants during the delivery and immediate post-delivery phases.

Degree Statistics

This program is offered at 22 institutions across the United States, with a total of 1614 degrees awarded annually.

Master's Degrees

464

degrees awarded

Doctoral Degrees

74

degrees awarded

Other Awards

1,076

awards given

Top Schools for Nurse Midwife Nursing Midwifery

These institutions offer the most degrees in this program, ranked by total annual completions.

Rank Institution Degrees
1 Frontier Nursing University
Versailles, KY
897
2 University of Cincinnati-Main Campus
Cincinnati, OH
126
3 Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
Lubbock, TX
78
4 Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
75
5 Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, PA
57
6 Bethel University
Saint Paul, MN
51
7 SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
Brooklyn, NY
45
8 Emory University
Atlanta, GA
42
9 Seattle University
Seattle, WA
30
10 Shenandoah University
Winchester, VA
30
11 Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, OR
30
12 University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
30
13 Baylor University
Waco, TX
24
14 New York University
New York, NY
18
15 Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY
18
16 Marquette University
Milwaukee, WI
15
17 Wayne State University
Detroit, MI
12
18 Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH
9
19 East Carolina University
Greenville, NC
9
20 George Washington University
Washington, DC
9
21 Fairfield University
Fairfield, CT
6
22 University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus
Pittsburgh, PA
3