Type Public Students 681 Acceptance rate 16.3% (2011) Dean Dorrie Fontaine | Established 1901 Campus Suburban Total enrollment 729 (2012) | |
Location Charlottesville, VA, USA Address 225 Jeanette Lancaster Way, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA Undergraduate tuition and fees Local tuition: 10,016 USD (2013), Domestic tuition: 36,720 USD (2013) Similar University of Virginia, McIntire School of Commerce, Hereford College, The Judge Advocate General's, Yale Graduate School of Profiles |
The University of Virginia School of Nursing, established in 1901, is a world-renowned school of nursing education. For more than one hundred years, it has been at the forefront of nursing education, service, and research. It has an enrollment of approximately 681 undergraduate and graduate students, and is consistently rated in the top 5% of Nursing schools in the United States. The dean of the nursing school is Dorrie K. Fontaine.
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History
The School of Nursing was founded in 1901. In 1928, the first baccalaureate nursing program in the South began at the University of Virginia. Men were first admitted in the 1960s. The first nursing PhD program offered in Virginia began at the School of Nursing in 1982, and in 2008, it became the first facility in Virginia to offer a DNP (Doctor of Nursing Practice) degree- the terminal degree for nursing clinicians.
Academics
The School of Nursing offers a variety of options for attaining a nursing degree.
Undergraduate
Graduate
Affiliations and accreditation
The School of Nursing is a member of the Council of Baccalaureate and Higher Degree programs of the National League for Nursing, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, and the Southern Council on Collegiate Education for Nursing of the Southern Regional Education Board. The school is nationally accredited, and approved by the Virginia State Board of Nursing.[1] The School of Nursing is also the sole American nursing school to participate in Universitas 21, with exchange and research programs set up with the University of Auckland in New Zealand, and Oxford University in the United Kingdom.
The School of Nursing has become a national leader in rural health care research. It is the first and only school of nursing in the country to be funded by the National Institute for Mental Health to create a Center in rural mental health–-the Southeastern Rural Mental Health Research Center. It is also home to the National Institute of Health-funded Rural Health Care Research Center. Faculty and students volunteer in the yearly Remote Area Medical Health Clinic in Wise, Virginia, a free emergency medicine clinic that sees thousands of patients a day for three days every July.
Rankings
The School of Nursing is ranked in the 95th percentile of US nursing schools, tied in 19th place overall of 448. Four graduate nursing programs are also rated in the 95th percentile- Psychiatric/Mental Health (#5), Clinical Nurse Specialist-Adult/Medical-Surgical (#6), Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (#12), and Family Nurse Practitioner (#16). It is currently ranked as the best school in the United States for doctoral student-authored by the National Institute of Health. Approximately one-third of the School of Nursing's full-time faculty members hold national nursing Academy fellowships.