BOMNursing school graph
The nursing school directory expressed as a knowledge graph. Each school is connected to the board that approves it, the accreditors that accredit it, its exam results, the credentials it awards, its federal funding, its faculty and its clinical partners. Every relationship records the organization that published it.
Ontology
Entity types and the relationships between them. The number on each box is the count of that entity; the number on each arrow is the count of that relationship.
Entity types
| Entity | Count | Definition | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| School | 2,678 | An institution at one location that offers at least one program leading to initial licensure as a nurse. | U.S. Department of Education (IPEDS) |
| Program | 8,454 | A credential a school awards, identified by CIP code and award level. | IPEDS Completions |
| Credential | 211 | A CIP code at an award level. Programs at different schools share the same credential. | IPEDS Completions |
| Board of nursing | 58 | The state or territorial regulator that approves nursing programs. | Each board of nursing |
| Accreditor | 4 | A national accrediting body for nursing programs. | ACEN, CCNE, CNEA and COA |
| Exam cohort | 186 | First-time NCLEX candidates from a program in a given year, with the number who passed. | State boards of nursing |
| Faculty member | 5,807 | A person listed on a school’s nursing faculty page, with the title the school gives. | The school |
| Hospital | 7 | A Medicare-certified hospital that a school names as a clinical training site. | CMS hospital register and the school |
| Funder | 161 | A federal agency awarding nursing funds, or a prime recipient passing those funds to a school. | USAspending.gov |
| Award | 4,212 | A federal grant or subaward to a school under a nursing assistance listing. | USAspending.gov |
| Place | 1,742 | The city and state where a school is located. | IPEDS directory |
Relationship types
Each relationship comes from one source. Relationships taken from a school’s own website are kept separate from those published by a regulator, an accreditor or a federal agency.
| Relationship | From and to | Source | Count | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| approves | Board of nursing → School | Board approval | 3,042 | The board lists the program as approved. The status is shown as the board wrote it. |
| accredits | Accreditor → School | Accreditation | 3,684 | The accreditor lists the program as accredited, with the date of its next review. |
| has exam results | School → Exam cohort | NCLEX results | 2,923 | The state board reported first-time NCLEX candidates from the program for the year, and how many passed. |
| confers | School → Credential | Federal completions | 8,454 | The school reported awarding the credential to graduates in the survey year. |
| funds | Funder → School | Federal award | 2,650 | A federal agency awarded the school funds under an assistance listing for nursing. |
| subawards to | Prime recipient → School | Federal subaward | 1,562 | The prime recipient of a nursing award reported passing part of it to the school. |
| teaches at | Faculty member → School | School website | 5,807 | The school lists the person on its nursing faculty page. |
| places students at | School → Hospital | School website | 8 | The school names the hospital as a clinical training site on its own website. |
| located in | School → Place | Federal directory | 2,678 | The federal directory gives the school’s address. |
By lane
| Lane | Edges |
|---|---|
| completions | 11,132 |
| self published | 5,815 |
| accreditation | 3,684 |
| regulator approval | 3,042 |
| exam census | 2,923 |
| federal award | 2,650 |
| federal subaward | 1,562 |
Accreditors
| Body | Programs |
|---|---|
| CCNE | 2,035 |
| ACEN | 1,427 |
| CNEA | 147 |
| COA | 75 |
Boards of nursing by approved programs
| Board | Programs it approves here |
|---|---|
| Florida | 506 |
| Texas | 223 |
| Ohio | 203 |
| California | 179 |
| North Carolina | 154 |
| Pennsylvania | 152 |
| Virginia | 145 |
| Illinois | 144 |
| Missouri | 126 |
| Indiana | 123 |
| Oklahoma | 121 |
| West Virginia | 116 |
Coverage
How many records each source provides, and out of how many possible. The faculty and clinical partner figures depend on what schools publish on their own websites.
| Source | Found | Out of | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Board approval | 47 | 58 | States and territories whose list of approved programs was collected in full. The methodology page lists the rest. |
| NCLEX results | 47 | 58 | States and territories whose NCLEX results by program were collected in full. |
| Federal funding | 438 | 2,678 | Schools with at least one award under a nursing assistance listing. |
| Faculty | 521 | 2,166 | Schools with a nursing faculty listing on their website, out of the schools whose nursing pages were collected. |
| Clinical partners | 8 | 938 | Schools that name a specific hospital matched to the CMS register, out of the schools that mention clinical partners. |
Federal funding
Federal grants and subawards under the seven assistance listings dedicated to nursing, for fiscal year 2016 onward, from USAspending.gov. Awards are matched to schools by recipient name and city. Awards to hospitals, state agencies and university system offices are counted in the totals but are not assigned to a school.
$6.14bntotal federal nursing awards, FY2016 onward
$4.12bnawarded to schools in this directory
438schools with at least one award
3,577grants, plus 4,349 subawards
| Assistance listing |
|---|
| 93.178 Nursing Workforce Diversity |
| 93.247 Advanced Nursing Education |
| 93.264 Nurse Faculty Loan Program |
| 93.359 Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention |
| 93.361 Nursing Research |
| 93.364 Nursing Student Loans |
| 93.908 Nurse Corps |
By state
| State | Schools | People | Federal money | Edges |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| California | 220 | 602 | $435m | 2,275 |
| Florida | 140 | 233 | $194m | 1,902 |
| New York | 151 | 450 | $212m | 1,825 |
| Texas | 143 | 338 | $148m | 1,775 |
| Ohio | 147 | 452 | $159m | 1,754 |
| Pennsylvania | 147 | 163 | $315m | 1,646 |
| Illinois | 97 | 135 | $102m | 1,130 |
| North Carolina | 97 | 37 | $340m | 1,087 |
| Tennessee | 76 | 260 | $116m | 1,023 |
| Virginia | 72 | 237 | $54m | 944 |
| Michigan | 68 | 182 | $157m | 885 |
| Missouri | 72 | 144 | $43m | 760 |
| Georgia | 63 | 132 | $215m | 693 |
| Massachusetts | 62 | 88 | $56m | 689 |
| Minnesota | 55 | 124 | $56m | 684 |
| Indiana | 39 | 120 | $49m | 679 |
| Kentucky | 46 | 121 | $42m | 647 |
| Alabama | 42 | 169 | $227m | 621 |
| Oklahoma | 62 | 132 | $6m | 599 |
| New Jersey | 62 | 135 | $12m | 557 |
| Washington | 48 | 49 | $212m | 539 |
| Wisconsin | 44 | 114 | $14m | 528 |
| Louisiana | 47 | 108 | $20m | 516 |
| South Carolina | 45 | 66 | $61m | 484 |
| Maryland | 30 | 70 | $282m | 455 |
| Arizona | 39 | 56 | $39m | 449 |
| Arkansas | 41 | 149 | $19m | 448 |
| West Virginia | 48 | 52 | $9m | 418 |
| Kansas | 44 | 89 | $24m | 390 |
| Colorado | 34 | 99 | $11m | 379 |
| Iowa | 38 | 52 | $25m | 370 |
| Connecticut | 23 | 60 | $91m | 352 |
| Utah | 28 | 87 | $41m | 349 |
| Nebraska | 17 | 75 | $6m | 268 |
| New Mexico | 24 | 31 | $25m | 239 |
| Puerto Rico | 53 | 1 | $9m | 238 |
| District of Columbia | 8 | 63 | $80m | 230 |
| Mississippi | 26 | 17 | $10m | 209 |
| Oregon | 29 | 2 | $44m | 197 |
| Nevada | 16 | 41 | $3m | 182 |
| Maine | 17 | 19 | $9m | 162 |
| Montana | 14 | 32 | $31m | 162 |
| New Hampshire | 18 | 28 | $7m | 147 |
| North Dakota | 14 | 3 | $15m | 146 |
| South Dakota | 15 | 8 | $10m | 140 |
| Idaho | 12 | 28 | $2m | 130 |
| Hawaii | 8 | 61 | $249k | 122 |
| Rhode Island | 8 | 38 | $8m | 115 |
| Wyoming | 8 | 52 | $2m | 106 |
| Delaware | 7 | 1 | $10m | 73 |
| Alaska | 4 | 1 | $62m | 36 |
| Vermont | 3 | 0 | $1m | 32 |
| Guam | 2 | 0 | – | 6 |
| American Samoa | 1 | 0 | – | 4 |
| U.S. Virgin Islands | 1 | 1 | – | 4 |
| Micronesia | 1 | 0 | – | 3 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | 1 | 0 | – | 3 |
| Marshall Islands | 1 | 0 | – | 2 |
Built 2026-09-21 from the same files the directory serves. Federal cycles 2024 and 2023.