NP Clinical Placement Data
Here’s Clinical Match Me’s NP clinical placement data: the specialties students request, the program tracks they’re in, where they live, how far they’ll travel for a rotation and when they want to start. Every figure comes from placement requests that students, most of them nurse practitioner (NP) students, made on Clinical Match Me. We update the figures every month, and you’re welcome to reuse them for free as long as you credit Clinical Match Me and link to this page.
We publish this nurse practitioner clinical rotation data for journalists, nursing school faculty, researchers and NP students who want figures they can quote. Below, you’ll find our main figures as charts, a plain explanation of how we calculate them, and CSV and JSON downloads of the full dataset.
TL;DR
- Primary care and psychiatric and mental health were the two largest specialty groups in placement requests on Clinical Match Me from October 2025 to September 2026. Primary care made up 28% of requests, and psychiatric and mental health made up 28%.
- FNP students made 52% of the requests that list a program track, and PMHNP students made 27%.
- Remote rotations made up 27% of mental health requests. Their share fell every year from 2022 to 2025, from 40% to 29%.
- The South is home to the largest share of students on Clinical Match Me, at 45%.
- Students who searched by distance set a median of 50 miles, and 59% were willing to travel 50 miles or more.
- January, May and August were the most requested start months from 2021 to 2025.
- The median placement request asked for 160 hours.
Which clinical rotations do NP students request?
In Clinical Match Me’s NP clinical placement data from October 2025 to September 2026, primary care and psychiatric and mental health were the two largest specialty groups. Primary care made up 28% of requests, and psychiatric and mental health made up 28%.
Family medicine and primary care rotations made up the largest share of any single specialty in our data, at 20% of all requests. Here are the ten specialties students requested most:
What share of mental health requests are for remote rotations?
Every remote specialty on Clinical Match Me, such as remote psychiatry and psychotherapy, is in mental health. From October 2025 to September 2026, 27% of mental health requests in our data were for a remote rotation. Counting every remote specialty, 25% of PMHNP requests were for a remote rotation.
The remote share fell every year from 2022 to 2025. Remote rotations made up 34% of mental health requests in 2021, 40% in 2022, 32% in 2023, 30% in 2024 and 29% in 2025.
How has the specialty mix changed since 2021?
In our data, acute, emergency and hospital rotations made up a larger share of requests every year from 2021 to 2025. Psychiatric and mental health rotations made up a smaller share every year from 2023 to 2025. Here’s each group’s share of requests in each full calendar year:
- Primary care: 30% in 2021, 28% in 2022, 27% in 2023, 27% in 2024 and 27% in 2025
- Psychiatric and mental health: 32% in 2021, 35% in 2022, 35% in 2023, 31% in 2024 and 29% in 2025
- Women’s health: 14% in 2021, 13% in 2022, 14% in 2023, 15% in 2024 and 14% in 2025
- Pediatrics: 14% in 2021, 14% in 2022, 13% in 2023, 13% in 2024 and 13% in 2025
- Acute, emergency and hospital: 6% in 2021, 7% in 2022, 8% in 2023, 10% in 2024 and 11% in 2025
- Other specialties: 4% in 2021, 3% in 2022, 4% in 2023, 5% in 2024 and 6% in 2025
Which NP program tracks are students in?
Among requests that list a program track in Clinical Match Me’s NP clinical placement data from October 2025 to September 2026, FNP students made 52% and PMHNP students made 27%. AGACNP students made 10%, AGPCNP students 5% and students in every other track 6%.
We report the FNP, PMHNP, AGACNP and AGPCNP tracks by name and group every other track together. Pediatric NP, women’s health NP, physician assistant and nurse-midwifery students are among the students in those other tracks.
How has the track mix changed since 2022?
In our data, PMHNP students made a smaller share of requests every year from 2022 to 2025. Over the same years, FNP’s share stayed between 46% and 49%, and AGACNP’s share rose from 7% to 11%. Our track data starts in 2022. Here’s each track’s share of requests in each full calendar year:
- FNP: 49% in 2022, 47% in 2023, 46% in 2024 and 48% in 2025
- PMHNP: 38% in 2022, 35% in 2023, 29% in 2024 and 28% in 2025
- AGACNP: 7% in 2022, 7% in 2023, 10% in 2024 and 11% in 2025
- AGPCNP: 2% in 2022, 5% in 2023, 5% in 2024 and 4% in 2025
- Other tracks: 4% in 2022, 7% in 2023, 10% in 2024 and 9% in 2025
Which rotations does each NP track request?
Students on each track request a different mix of rotations. In our data, family medicine and primary care made up 36% of FNP requests, followed by pediatrics at 24%.
In-person psychiatry made up 42% of PMHNP requests, and remote psychiatry made up 15%.
AGACNP students request hospital and emergency rotations, such as hospitalist, emergency medicine, inpatient acute care and ICU.
AGPCNP students request family medicine and primary care most often, at 27% of their requests.
Where do NP students live, and how do they search for a preceptor?
In Clinical Match Me’s NP clinical placement data from October 2025 to September 2026, the South is home to the largest share of students, at 45%. The Northeast has 16%, the Midwest 17% and the West 22%.
Here are the ten states with the largest shares of students:
In every region, primary care and psychiatric and mental health were the two largest specialty groups in our data:
- Northeast: primary care 26%, psychiatric and mental health 29%
- Midwest: primary care 28%, psychiatric and mental health 28%
- South: primary care 28%, psychiatric and mental health 26%
- West: primary care 28%, psychiatric and mental health 29%
How do students search for a preceptor?
On Clinical Match Me, students choose the states they’re willing to travel to, or enter their zip code and how far they’re willing to travel. From October 2025 to September 2026, 56% of requests in our data used a distance and 44% used a list of states.
- Distance: students who searched by distance set a median of 50 miles, and 59% were willing to travel 50 miles or more.
- States: the median number of states listed was 1. Of all state searches, 38% included at least one state other than the student’s home state, including the 7% that left the home state off the list entirely.
By track, here’s the share of requests that used a distance, the share of distance searches set at 50 miles or more, and the share of state searches that included a state other than the student’s home state:
- FNP: 65% by distance, 58% at 50 miles or more, 35% beyond the home state
- PMHNP: 45% by distance, 64% at 50 miles or more, 43% beyond the home state
- AGACNP: 41% by distance, 70% at 50 miles or more, 43% beyond the home state
- AGPCNP: 65% by distance, 53% at 50 miles or more, 33% beyond the home state
When do rotations start, and how many hours do students request?
January, May and August were the most requested start months in Clinical Match Me’s NP clinical placement data from 2021 to 2025, at 20%, 17% and 15% of requests.
Students submit placement requests all year, and new requests are spread far more evenly across the months than start dates are.
How many hours does a placement request ask for?
The median request in our NP clinical placement data from October 2025 to September 2026 asked for 160 hours. By program track, the median request asked for:
- FNP: 150 hours
- PMHNP: 160 hours
- AGACNP: 160 hours
- AGPCNP: 160 hours
By specialty group, the median request asked for:
- Primary care: 160 hours
- Psychiatric and mental health: 160 hours
- Women’s health: 150 hours
- Pediatrics: 135 hours
- Acute, emergency and hospital: 160 hours
- Other specialties: 125 hours
Download and cite our NP clinical placement data
Use the files below for your own analysis, and the citation to credit Clinical Match Me as the source.
The CSV file has one row per figure, ready to open in a spreadsheet. The JSON file holds the same figures in a structured format for developers. Every chart on this page also has its own citation and embed code under Cite or embed this chart.
How we calculate our NP clinical placement statistics
Every figure on this page comes from anonymized placement requests on Clinical Match Me. Here’s what each term means and how we calculate the figures.
- Placement request: one student’s request for one rotation, with the specialty, start date and hours they need and where they’re willing to travel.
- The 12-month window: most figures use requests made from October 2025 to September 2026, the last 12 full months. The window moves forward one month with each monthly update.
- Calendar years: the start-month and request-month figures use requests made from 2021 to 2025, so every month of the year is represented equally. These years move forward each January. The year-by-year trends use the requests made in each calendar year, from 2021 for specialty groups and from 2022 for program tracks.
- Students and requests: home-state and region shares count students, each student once. Every other share counts requests.
- Missing details: we leave out requests that are missing the detail a share measures. For example, the track mix includes only requests that list a program track, and home-state shares include only students with a home state on file.
- Specialty groups: each group includes related specialties. Women’s health, for example, includes OB/GYN and gynecology rotations.
- Remote rotations: the remote share of mental health is the share of mental health requests made for a remote specialty, such as remote psychiatry.
- Medians: the hours figures are the median hours requested, and the distance figure is the median distance among requests that searched by distance.
- Regions: we group home states into the four regions the U.S. Census Bureau uses: Northeast, Midwest, South and West.
- Small groups: we leave out small groups, so no figure is based on too few requests.
- Rounding: we round shares to whole percentages on this page.
Articles that use our NP clinical placement data
Each of these articles explains one part of the data in more depth and includes practical advice for NP students.
- NP Clinical Rotations by Specialty: which rotations NP students request, how the mix differs by track and how it has changed since 2021.
- NP Specialties: what each NP population focus involves, who certifies it and which tracks students choose.
- Nurse Practitioner Clinical Hours Requirements: how many clinical hours the national standards and each certification board require, and how long a single rotation is.
- FNP Clinical Hours and Rotation Requirements: the hours FNP students need, what counts toward them and the rotations they request most.
- PMHNP Clinical Hours and Requirements: the hours PMHNP programs and certification require, what counts toward them and the rotations PMHNP students request most.
- How Long Are Clinical Rotations for NP Students?: the hours students request by track and specialty, how many weeks a rotation takes and when rotations start.
- Virtual Clinical Rotations for NP Students: how telehealth rotations work, whether the hours count toward your degree and how requests for remote rotations have changed.
- How to Find a Preceptor Near Me: where students live, how they search and how far they travel for a rotation.
- Finding FNP Preceptors Near Me: where FNP students live, how far they’re willing to travel and which rotations they need nearby.
- Finding a PMHNP Preceptor Near Me: where PMHNP students live, how they search and how often they choose a remote rotation.
Questions about our NP clinical placement data
Can I use this NP clinical placement data in my article, course or research?
Yes. You’re welcome to quote, chart and share the figures under the CC BY 4.0 license described below. Credit Clinical Match Me as the source and link to this page.
How do I cite it?
Copy the ready-made citation in the Download and cite section above, which also shows the month of our latest update. Since the figures change every month, add the date you accessed this page. To cite a single chart, open Cite or embed this chart under it.
How often do you update the data?
We update our NP clinical placement data every month. With each update, we add the latest full month of requests and drop the oldest, so the 12-month window moves forward. The calendar-year figures move forward each January. Our latest update was in October 2026.
Who does the data include?
Students who made placement requests on Clinical Match Me in the period each figure uses. Most are NP students, and the rest include physician assistant students and students in other programs. Our students come from all 50 states. These NP student statistics describe students who used Clinical Match Me, rather than every NP student in the country.
Why do you publish shares rather than totals?
Shares and medians answer the questions people ask about NP clinical rotations: which specialties students request, where they live, how far they’ll travel and when they want to start. You can also compare shares fairly from one year to the next.
About this data
Our NP clinical placement data comes from anonymized placement requests that students, most of them NP students, made on Clinical Match Me. Most figures use requests from October 2025 to September 2026. The start-month and request-month figures use the full calendar years 2021 to 2025, and the year-by-year trends use each full calendar year from 2021 to 2025 (from 2022 for program tracks).
Each figure is a share of requests or students, or a median, and we update them every month (most recently in October 2026). The figures describe students who used Clinical Match Me, not all NP students nationally.
You’re welcome to reuse these figures under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) license. Just credit Clinical Match Me as the source and link to this page.
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