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This year, U.S. News & World Report is publishing its first-ever undergraduate Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) rankings. The rankings are based solely on the judgments of deans and senior faculty members of nursing schools and departments at institutions around the country.To have received the survey and be ranked, an institution's nursing school or department that offers the BSN degree must have met both of these criteria:Be accredited at the bachelor's level by either the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education or the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing.

Be a regionally accredited institution that awarded at least 35 BSN degrees, according to 2018-2019 data from the IPEDS Data Center.In the spring and summer of 2021, U.S. News surveyed deans and senior faculty members at each of the 694 undergraduate BSN degree-granting nursing programs that met the above criteria. All 694 were ranked.

These deans and faculty members were asked to rate the academic quality of peer institutions' BSN programs on a 5-point scale: outstanding (5), strong (4), good (3), adequate (2) or marginal (1). Individuals who were unfamiliar with a particular school's programs were asked to select "don't know."Average peer assessment scores for each nursing program were determined by computing a trimmed mean – eliminating the two highest and two lowest scores given by respondents. 

Average scores were then sorted and BSN programs were ranked in descending order based on the average peer assessment score. Of those surveyed, 28.3% responded.In the overall BSN ranking, programs with average peer assessment scores less than 2.0 are listed in alphabetical order in a ranking range based on the number of programs that also earned scores below 2.0. U.S. News will supply schools or programs that are listed in the ranking range with their numerical rankings if a school official submits a request to official@usnews.com

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