Undergraduate Program
Nationally ranked. Mission driven.
The Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing’s top-ranked Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree lays the foundation for your nursing career. Our rigorous curriculum and state-of-the-art simulation labs equip nurses with the clinical skills and knowledge to excel in the rapidly evolving field of health care.
Á¿×Ó×ÊÔ´’s Jesuit values further set us apart. Our commitment to cura personalis, or care for the whole person, and social justice is woven throughout our program, preparing nurses ready to create a more equitable health care system.
Choose from our four-year BSN track or earn your degree in just 16 months through our Accelerated BSN track, which offers hybrid and on-campus options to fit your needs.
Take the next step
Apply to our four-year BSN nursing program through Á¿×Ó×ÊÔ´ University Chicago's application system, or apply to the ABSN program online.
Our Commitment to You
As a Á¿×Ó×ÊÔ´ Nursing graduate, you'll launch your career with a base of well-rounded knowledge and clinical skills that prepare you to work in a variety of health care settings.
Program Goal
Our BSN degree prepares baccalaureate generalist nurses to provide competent, holistic care across the lifespan to individuals, families, and communities.
Program Outcomes
Á¿×Ó×ÊÔ´ Nursing graduates are prepared to:
- Synthesize knowledge from liberal arts, sciences, and nursing science as a basis for professional nursing practice.
- Integrate levels of prevention, quality, safety concepts and principles and leadership into professional nursing practice.
- Provide culturally competent, effective and patient-centered professional nursing care to individuals, families and communities across the lifespan.
- Demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with the patient and interprofessional team to deliver evidence-based, safe, patient centered care to individuals, families and communities.
- Integrate values, ethics and legal knowledge into nursing practice.
- Integrate scientific evidence and patient, family and community preferences into the planning, implementation and evaluation of professional nursing care.
- Apply skills of information technology and information management effectively in professional nursing practice.
- Analyze ways governmental, institutional and professional policies directly and indirectly influence the health care system and population health.