India’s 10 Best Nursing Colleges 2020

The rapid and undetected spread of COVID-19 and the (potentially) relatively high mortality rate from COVID-19-related pneumonia have combined to create the current pandemic crisis, which is impacting greatly on health, economics, and social life on a global scale. Massive medical manpower and resources have been invested in the prevention and treatment of severe pneumonia, increasing the burdens on, and even threatening the exhaustion of, healthcare systems across the world.

Nurses are the frontline healthcare professionals who work across acute care hospitals, long-term care agencies, nursing homes, schools, community, and government healthcare agencies. The multiple roles and functions played by nurses are particularly important during this COVID-19 pandemic. Nurses help families learn to become healthy by helping them understand the range of emotional, physical, mental and cultural experiences they encounter during health and illness. … Nurses do more than just care for individuals. Great career opportunities are abundant and the demand for trained and well-equipped nurses is on the rise each day. For students who have dreams of taking up nursing education, this is perhaps the right time and the right opportunity.

Four major areas in nursing are nursing practice, nursing administration, nursing education and nursing research. Aspirants who want to pursue the practice of nursing have a brighter future as nursing entrepreneurs who are capable of setting up their own private business which can turn out to be very profitable and secure a name in the business field in the future. In post COVID scenario, the role of nurses is likely to increase as the patients are staying in the hospital for a prolonged period due to the quarantine norms. All in all, the role and importance of trained nurses will increase due to their knowledge in bedside caring of patients and hospitality.

Nursing colleges across the country have played an important role in imparting the necessary knowledge and training to aspirants who want to further pursue a career in nursing. The major confusion amongst nursing aspirants is to choose the best nursing college which caters to their needs of becoming a nurse. Hence, in order to ease this process of selecting the appropriate and ideal nursing college/institute, we at the Academic Insights have curated a list of best nursing colleges across our country and put them together in a title we would like to call – “India’s 10 Best Nursing Colleges 2020”.

In this edition, each featured institute has been carefully chosen by our panel of experts who have put explicit stress on selecting only the best and second to none nursing institutes of the country. Before the final selection, the panel has spent sizeable time in researching and analyzing each institute precisely, basically following four parameters, viz. Academic Excellence, Infrastructure-Facilities, Industry-Interface, and Placements. We ardently believe that going through the institutes that we have featured here, will help the students in finding their true call and achieve a productive and blissful future. Whether they envision starting their own entrepreneurial journey or get a foot into the professional life, the institutes that have been listed here promise to provide everything a nursing aspirant of the 21st century dreams of.