UConn PhD in Nursing | School of Nursing

BS TO PhD IN NURSING
Enhance your career.

Focus your career on research, public policy, administration, history, and/or nursing philosphy and theory.
POST-MASTER'S TO PhD IN NURSING
Develop new knowledge.

Builds sought after healthcare leaders that create measurable impact on society.
TAKE A COURSE
Prepare for admission.

Taking courses as a non-degree student is an excellent way to explore the program and think further about your own research ideas and direction.
LONG STANDING COMMITMENT
In its 28th Year.

UConn's state-of-the-art doctoral nursing program allows you the opportunity to generate and test your own theory.

Nurses Nurturing Those Who Move Nursing Forward

A Nursing PhD program supporting nursing leaders who advance the field, their careers, and make key clinical contributions for a healthier world.

A longstanding commitment to theory and research is what makes the PhD in Nursing program at the University of Connecticut (UConn) something special.Theory and research advance the field, and within UConn's Nursing PhD program these are a priority. Because of this, the School of Nursing attracts top doctoral students and top-tier faculty in the field of nursing.

Now in its 28th year, UConn's state-of-the-art doctoral nursing program allows you the opportunity to generate your own theory and test it.

From a practical standpoint, exposure to theory and practice increases your:

Likelihood of being published.
Grant writing ability.
And opens many doors for your future by evolving your thought processes.

With such a breadth of options, you can go on to a career in bench research, educational research, lived experience of patients - or you can go on to be a tenure-track professor, hospital administrator, or a college dean.

UConn doctoral nursing graduates are routinely placed in competitive postdoctoral positions at prestigious universities, and receive generous funding from NIH grants and others.

The opportunities available to you in UConn's PhD Nursing program offer you the freedom to become the nursing leader you want to be tomorrow.

You are considering joining a community of peers, faculty, and practitioners that will change your views, career trajectory, and field interaction over a lifetime.

Priority application deadline for funding (graduate assistantship and scholarship) is December 31, 2022. Applications received after that date will be reviewed on a rolling basis. The deadline to submit an application for Fall 2022 is July 1, 2023.