The College of Tennessee Well being Science Middle’s Faculty of Nursing continues its robust displaying amongst Physician of Nursing Apply (DNP) packages nationwide with a No. 25 rating by U.S. Information & World Report for its DNP program on the journal’s Finest Graduate Colleges listing for 2024.
The school’s DNP program has been ranked within the prime 27 nationwide by U.S. Information & World Report for the previous a number of years. UT Well being Science Middle has essentially the most highly-ranked DNP program of any public college in Tennessee. It was tied for No. 23 final 12 months.
The most recent rating locations the school within the prime 7% of all DNP packages ranked nationwide, and within the prime 17% of DNP packages, ranked and unranked, within the U.S. Designed for potential college students trying to additional their schooling past school, the Finest Graduate Colleges rankings consider packages in quite a lot of disciplines, together with enterprise, schooling, medication, legislation, and nursing.
“In a time when nurses and nursing are extra essential than ever, our Faculty of Nursing continues to try to organize the following technology of wonderful and well-prepared superior practitioners. Our rating continues to be a mirrored image of our college’s pursuit of this excellence,” mentioned Dean Wendy Likes, PhD, DNSc, APRN-BC, FAAN, FAANP.
The rating of 169 DNP packages was primarily based on 14 indicators together with the next: peer evaluation, nursing follow participation, DNP diploma output productiveness, college credentials, student-faculty ratio, DNP scholar selectivity, DNP enrollment, DNP scholar grade level common, analysis exercise, and complete grants.
Different Tennessee schools whose DNP packages made the listing embody the Vanderbilt College College of Nursing, which was ranked fifteenth; the College of Tennessee, Knoxville, which was ranked No. 34; Belmont College, which was ranked at No. 130; and Union College, which was ranked 134th. Within the Mid-South, the College of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock was ranked No. 45 on the listing of DNP packages, and the College of Mississippi Medical Middle was ranked 95th.
Professor Bobby Bellflower, DNSc, NNP-BC, FAANP, FNAP, director of the DNP Program, mentioned, “We’re so pleased with our DNP program rating. The school are consultants of their specialty and supply excellence in educating and follow. The various college students are nice and so enthusiastic about their schooling and follow. The highest 7% rating displays glorious college students and school to offer the most effective look after our group, state, and nation.”
The UT Well being Science Middle Faculty of Nursing affords eight DNP concentrations together with Nurse-Midwifery, Nurse-Anesthesiology, Household Nurse Practitioner, Psychiatric Psychological Well being Nurse Practitioner, Pediatric Acute Care, Pediatric Main Care, Neonatal Nurse Practitioner, and Grownup-Gerontology Acute Care. There are additionally three twin DNP program choices: Grownup-Gerontology Acute Care/Household Nurse Practitioner, Pediatric Main Care/Pediatric Acute Care, and Psychiatric Psychological Well being/Household Nurse Practitioner. Detailed info is out there at uthsc.edu/dnp.
