College of Nursing
UTHSC Nursing: A Legacy of Leadership. A Career for Life.
With an outstanding national reputation earned over more than a century, the College of Nursing traces its history to 1898 and was the first College of Nursing in Tennessee. Housed in the resource-rich environment of an urban medical campus, the College of Nursing offers a highly-educated, research-oriented faculty with a focus on developing nursing leaders. The College currently offers a 12-month, second-degree accelerated BSN program, a traditional, four-semester BSN program, and a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program with eight concentrations and three dual DNP concentrations. Our PhD in nursing is offered through the College of Graduate Health Sciences.
Academic Programs
- Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
- Family Nurse Practitioner
- Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
- Nurse Anesthesiology
- Nurse Midwifery
- Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner
- Pediatric Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
- Neonatal Nurse Practitioner
- Dual Concentration: Adult-Gerontology Acute Care/Family Nurse Practitioner
- Dual Concentration: Psychiatric Mental Health/ Family Nurse Practitioner
- Dual Concentration:
Pediatric Acute Care/Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner
- Registered Nurse First Assistant (RNFA)
- Advanced Practice Forensic Nursing Certificate
- Post-Masters Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Certificate Program
- Post-DNP Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Certificate Program
- Post-DNP Family Nurse Practitioner Certificate Program
- Post-DNP Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Certificate Program
- Post-DNP Pediatric Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Certificate Program

In the magazine's inaugural listing of BSN programs, the UTHSC College of Nursing was the highest-ranked BSN program in Tennessee.

The college's DNP program consistently ranks near the top of this important list of doctoral programs of nursing.