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Watts College of Nursing
Watts College of Nursing is a private campus in Durham proper — federal locale codes class it as urban.
What could it cost?
Start with net price after grants, then read the published costs. Each chart names its academic year and the students it covers.
Tuition & fees
Skip to data tablePublished tuition and fees before grants. Housing, food, books and other attendance costs are separate.
| Year | Tuition & fees |
|---|---|
| 2001 | $2,972 |
| 2003 | $7,200 |
| 2004 | $8,537 |
| 2005 | $8,937 |
| 2006 | $9,525 |
| 2007 | $9,525 |
| 2008 | $12,200 |
Cost, size & completion summary
Cost, size & completion
Enrollment sits at 124 — Watts College of Nursing is one of the smaller campuses on this site.
Do students finish — and what comes after?
Graduation, debt and earnings cover different groups. Read each chart's entering class or fiscal period; they are not one group's journey.
Earnings after entry
Historical student groupsMedian annual earnings after entering college, for federally aided students who were working and not enrolled when measured.
Only one of the three observation windows has data filed for this school.
Measured in 2013–14, adjusted for inflation to 2016 dollars. Each figure pools two entering academic years.
What does the admissions record show?
Rates and score ranges describe a past admissions cycle. Submitted scores are not cutoffs or a prediction of admission.
Admissions snapshot & test policies
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The share of applicants offered a spot — lower means more selective; read it alongside the score ranges below.
Read Watts College of Nursing's change from 42.7% to 23.1% as a share of applications, not an explanation of admissions decisions. This describes Fall 2002 to Fall 2006.
| Year | Acceptance rate |
|---|---|
| Fall 2002 | 42.7% |
| Fall 2003 | 64% |
| Fall 2004 | 48.3% |
| Fall 2005 | 26.3% |
| Fall 2006 | 23.1% |
| Fall 2008 | 100% |
Sums of the reading/writing and math percentiles among enrolled submitters — not percentiles of total SAT scores or admission cutoffs.
| Year | 25th | 75th |
|---|---|---|
| Fall 2003 | 620 | 900 |
| Fall 2005 | 840 | 1100 |
What is the campus like?
Enrollment counts a campus population; retention follows first-years returning. Their dates and populations are shown separately.
Reported undergraduate enrollment. This count does not measure class size or teaching access.
Undergraduate enrollment at Watts College of Nursing rose from 104 (Fall 2002) to 124 (Fall 2024).
| Year | Undergraduates |
|---|---|
| Fall 2002 | 104 |
| Fall 2003 | 103 |
| Fall 2004 | 110 |
| Fall 2005 | 109 |
| Fall 2006 | 108 |
| Fall 2007 | 104 |
| Fall 2008 | 141 |
| Fall 2009 | 156 |
| Fall 2010 | 158 |
| Fall 2011 | 159 |
| Fall 2012 | 155 |
| Fall 2013 | 138 |
| Fall 2014 | 138 |
| Fall 2015 | 144 |
| Fall 2016 | 144 |
| Fall 2017 | 145 |
| Fall 2018 | 152 |
| Fall 2019 | 144 |
| Fall 2020 | 150 |
| Fall 2021 | 144 |
| Fall 2022 | 163 |
| Fall 2023 | 134 |
| Fall 2024 | 124 |
More about Watts College of Nursing
35.1% of Watts College of Nursing's undergraduates carry Pell grants — the standard federal marker of lower-income enrollment.
Watts College of Nursing's Fall 2024 filing has no usable score range. Watts College of Nursing considered scores then; check today’s requirements.
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Data: IPEDS ADM2024 (Fall 2024 admissions, provisional) · IPEDS HD2024/IC2024 directory · College Scorecard 2026-06-10 release (institution and field-of-study files; earnings from Treasury records). Retrieved 2026-09-01. Chart dates follow this institution's available observations; the release date is not an academic year or an earnings year. Some records end earlier than others. Read the date and population definitions.