| Rank | Institution |
| 1 | Texas A & M University-College Station |
| 2 | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 3 | The University of Texas at San Antonio |
| 4 | University of Washington-Seattle Campus |
| 5 | The University of Texas-Pan American |
| 6 | Texas Tech University |
| 7 | Marshall University |
| 8 | Texas State University |
| 9 | United States Military Academy |
| 10 | Tarleton State University |
| 11 | University of Wisconsin-Whitewater |
| 12 | Richard Bland College of the College of William and Mary |
| 13 | Bluefield State College |
| 14 | The University of Texas at Austin |
| 15 | Texas A & M University-Corpus Christi |
| 16 | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
| 17 | West Liberty University |
| 18 | Concord University |
| 19 | The University of Texas at Arlington |
| 20 | East Carolina University |
| 21 | Ohio State University-Main Campus |
| 22 | University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
| 23 | West Virginia State University |
| 24 | Stephen F Austin State University |
| 25 | University of Toledo |
| 26 | Signature Healthcare Brockton Hospital School of Nursing |
| 27 | Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus |
| 28 | Norfolk State University |
| 29 | Eastern Washington University |
| 30 | New Mexico Military Institute |
| 31 | North Carolina A & T State University |
| 32 | Sul Ross State University |
| 33 | Appalachian State University |
| 34 | Virginia State University |
| 35 | Texas Woman's University |
| 36 | Midwestern State University |
| 37 | Radford University |
| 38 | University of South Dakota |
| 39 | Prairie View A & M University |
| 40 | Texas A & M University-Texarkana |
| 41 | Washington State University |
| 42 | University of Utah |
| 43 | Southern Utah University |
| 44 | Kent State University at Kent |
| 45 | Virginia Commonwealth University |
| 46 | University of North Carolina at Pembroke |
| 47 | University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
| 48 | Black Hills State University |
| 49 | Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus |
| 50 | Central Washington University |