The doctoral program in Nursing consists of 13 required courses, a Qualifying Examination, a Preliminary examination, a defense of the dissertation proposal, dissertation work, and a defense of the final dissertation. A full time student takes three or four courses a semester in the Fall and Spring Semester of every year. The School of Nursing is committed to fully funding all full time students.
Full funding provides a stipend and tuition support for four years.
The length of time that most students take to complete coursework is from three to five years of full time study. Part time students are also welcome to apply and the program may be taken on a part time basis. Upon acceptance to the Doctoral Program each student is assigned an advisor from the Standing Faculty of the School of Nursing. The student and advisor develop individual plans of study.