How We Source Our Data

We maintain a database of 154 accredited CRNA programs across the United States. Here's how we keep it accurate, how you can check our work, and what to do if you spot something wrong.

Where our data comes from

We pull program information from three sources:

  1. Official program websites — Tuition, GPA requirements, prerequisites, application deadlines, and admissions criteria come directly from each program's public website and admissions materials.
  2. The Council on Accreditation (COA) — Accreditation status, NCE pass rates, and attrition rates come from COA's publicly available reports.
  3. Community corrections — Our members are actively applying to these programs. When someone notices outdated information — a deadline that moved, a prerequisite that changed, a tuition increase — they let us know and we verify and update it.

You can check every number we publish

Most of this data is unglamorous work: reading admissions pages and writing down what they say. So we show that work. Where you see a "verified" stamp on a program's field, it means we recorded three things together — the value, the exact page on the school's own site it came from, and the sentence they wrote. Expand it and you get the school's own words and a link to the page, so you can confirm it in one click instead of taking our word for it.

We do this because "verified" is easy to type and hard to back up. If a site tells you a requirement is verified but won't show you where it came from, that stamp is decoration.

Every number is verified by hand

Nothing gets published because it looked right. A person checks each data point against the program's own page before it goes into the database, and the page it came from is recorded alongside it. That's the whole discipline, and it's why we can show you the receipt for so much of what's here.

Fields we haven't verified against a source yet simply don't carry a verified stamp. We'd rather show you an honest gap than a confident guess.

Acceptance rates: what we will and won't estimate

Most CRNA programs — 133 of 153 — do not publish how many people apply to them. We don't estimate the rest. Where a school publishes both its applicant count and its cohort size, we divide the school's own two numbers and label the result computed. Where a school publishes a percentage itself, we label it school-stated. Where a school publishes neither, we say so and leave it blank.

That's why our acceptance-rate table is shorter than some you'll find elsewhere. A longer table built on estimates isn't more informative — it's just more confident. See the full acceptance-rate study, where every number links to the school's own page.

We make mistakes

Sometimes we miss an update. Sometimes a program changes something and doesn't make it obvious on their website. Sometimes we get a number wrong. If you're relying on any data point for a real application decision — GPA minimums, prerequisite courses, deadlines — verify it directly on the program's website.

We link to every program's official site for exactly this reason.

Found an error?

If something looks wrong, please tell us. Seriously — our members catch things we miss all the time, and it makes the database better for everyone. You can report an error through the app or email us at support@thecrnaclub.com.

We'll verify it and update our records. If it's a significant change, we'll flag it across any content that references that program.