This program provides diploma and associate-degree nurses with a streamlined curriculum to a master's degree in nursing.
Enrollment is limited and competitive.
The program is offered on MCG's Augusta campus and via distance-learning on its Athens campus. Specific tracks, depending on enrollment, include M.N. degrees in family nurse practitioner and pediatric nurse practitioner and M.S.N. degrees in mental health-psychiatric nursing, nursing and clinical nurse specialist in adults. Twenty-seven semester hours of B.S.N. course work are required prior to applying. The program requires 36 semester hours of master's courses. Graduates of foreign nursing programs must have transcripts and application materials evaluated by the Commission on Graduates of Foreign Nursing Schools.