此次排名通过对超过1900所大学的详细调查，并分析了这些学校包括学术声誉(全职教授人数、诺贝尔奖或其他大奖获得者、论文学术专著等)、学术保持率(回校率和毕业率)、招生选拔、师资资源、经费资源(研究经费支持)、学生就业率和薪资、校友捐赠率、校园犯罪率、联邦贷款违约率等各项数据，从而推出的最新排名。
2017年USnews美国大学研究生院排名——最佳护理学院排名
| Rank | School name | Peer assessment score (out of 5) (master's) |
| 1 | Johns Hopkins University | 4.5 |
| Baltimore, MD | ||
| 2 | University of Pennsylvania | 4.6 |
| Philadelphia, PA | ||
| 3 | University of California—San Francisco | 4.4 |
| San Francisco, CA | ||
| 4 | Duke University | 4.3 |
| Durham, NC | ||
| 4 | University of Washington | 4.3 |
| Seattle, WA | ||
| 6 | New York University | 4.1 |
| New York, NY | ||
| 7 | University of Michigan—Ann Arbor | 4.2 |
| Ann Arbor, MI | ||
| 8 | Case Western Reserve University | 4.1 |
| Cleveland, OH | ||
| 8 | Columbia University | 4.2 |
| New York, NY | ||
| 8 | Emory University | 4.1 |
| Atlanta, GA | ||
| 8 | University of Maryland—Baltimore | 4.2 |
| Baltimore, MD | ||
| 12 | University of California—Los Angeles | 3.9? |
| Los Angeles, CA | ||
| 13 | University of Pittsburgh | 4.2 |
| Pittsburgh, PA | ||
| 13 | Vanderbilt University | 4.1 |
| Nashville, TN | ||
| 15 | University of Alabama—Birmingham | 4.0 |
| Birmingham, AL | ||
| 16 | Rush University | 4.1 |
| Chicago, IL | ||
| 17 | University of Texas—Austin | 3.9 |
| Austin, TX | ||
| 18 | University of Virginia | 4.0 |
| Charlottesville, VA | ||
| 19 | Rutgers University—Newark | 3.5 |
| Newark, NJ | ||
| 19 | Yale University | 4.1 |
| New Haven, CT | ||
| 21 | Ohio State University | 4.1 |
| Columbus, OH | ||
| 21 | University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill | 4.1 |
| Chapel Hill, NC |
