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Why just work in health care when you can shape its future? The Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing (FPB) consistently ranks as one of the top nursing schools in the country. This means that our students not only land great jobs when they graduate, they also become part of a global network of leading practitioners, researchers, and educators.
Although there are many undergraduate nursing programs in the U.S., ours stands out as a leader thanks to our rich history and our world-renowned reputation as an innovator in nursing education, research, and service.
Highlights of FPB and its Bachelor's of Nursing Science (BSN) program include:
- Unlike other universities with "pre-nursing" tracks, FPB offers direct admission to the nursing program. Also, FPB students take nursing classes in their first year on campus
- FPB students are the only nursing students in the country who start their clinical placements the third week of the first semester of their freshman year
- BSN students at FPB receive nearly double the national average of clinical hours (1600+)
- FPB is home to the country's first:
- FPB hosts one of 10 World Health Organization Collaborating Centers that focus on nursing in the U.S. and one of 38 in the world
- Our students routinely pass above the national average on the NCLEX, the RN licensure exam
- BSN students have several opportunities to study abroad to gain perspectives on global health
- All first-year BSN students at FPB receive a partial-tuition scholarship and are evaluated for additional university scholarships