University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing

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Ranked fifth by U.S. News and World Report’s 2016 Best Graduate Schools and sixth in National Institutes of Health research dollars, the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing offers opportunities to study with nationally recognized faculty. Since 1939, the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing has prepared students for increasingly demanding practice and academic environments through rigorous educational programs with varied and intensive experiences in applied practice.

Mission

The University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing, founded in 1939, is one of the oldest programs in baccalaureate and doctoral education in nursing in the United States. As one of the nation’s distinguished schools of nursing, the resources of the school constitute an invaluable asset for the intellectual, scientific, and economic enrichment of health care in Pennsylvania, the nation, and throughout the world.

The School of Nursing's mission is to:

provide high-quality undergraduate education in nursing;
maintain and develop superior graduate programs in nursing
that respond to the needs of health care in general and nursing
in particular within Pennsylvania, the nation, and the world;
engage in research and other scholarly activities that advance learning
through the extension of the frontiers of knowledge in health care;
cooperate with health care, governmental, and related institutions
to transfer knowledge in health sciences and health care;
offer continuing education programs adapted to the professional
upgrading and career advancement interests and needs of nurses
in Pennsylvania; and
make available to local communities and public agencies the expertise
of the School of Nursing in ways that are consistent with the primary
teaching and research functions and contribute to the intellectual
and economic development in health care within the commonwealth,
the nation, and the world.