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In the Rankings
When measured against its peers by a variety of measures, the UVa School of Nursing stands proudly among the very best nursing schools in the nation. In addition, the school is one of eleven independent schools of a highly ranked University, and an integral part of one of the nation's best teaching hospitals.
School of Nursing Continues to Move Up the Ranks - Among Top 2% in the U.S
The University of Virginia (U.Va.) School of Nursing has improved in ranking, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2012 edition of America’s Best Graduate Schools. The program is now 15th in the nation, moving up from its No. 19 spot in 2007 when it was last ranked. The Clinical Nurse Specialist in Psychiatric/Mental Health program also maintained its top ten ranking at No. 8.
Dorrie Fontaine, dean of the School of Nursing, believes that two new graduate options first offered in 2007 have contributed to the rise in ranking: the doctor of nursing practice degree and the clinical nurse leader master’s program.
“These link to the need for nurse practitioners and nursing faculty,” she said. She hopes they will also help to diminish the future need for more nurses, an estimated half a million by the year 2018.
U.S. News bases its rankings for nursing programs on “reputation scores” submitted by nursing deans. U.Va.’s School of Nursing remains among the top 2% across the country.
The University of Virginia School of Nursing stands among the top 2% in the nation, ranked 15th by U.S. News & World Report; one of its graduate programs is currently listed in the U.S. News Top Ten. With a vigorous research program that includes studies in rural health care and disparities, oncology, gerontology, complementary therapies and nursing history, the School has implemented new programs and strategies to address the national nursing shortage and the concurrent need for more highly educated nurses to deliver increasingly complex health care. The addition of the Claude Moore Nursing Education Building and renovation plans for McLeod Hall allow for an enrollment increase and expansion of the Clinical Simulation Learning Center and the Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry. Dean and Sadie Heath Cabaniss Professor of Nursing Dorrie Fontaine, RN, PhD, FAAN, is the former associate dean for academic programs at the University of California San Francisco and a past president of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, the largest specialty nursing organization in the world. For more information about the UVA School of Nursing and its programs, visit www.nursing.virginia.edu.
Additional Rankings:
- University Ranked as #2 public university in the United States; 25th overall (U.S. News & World Report, 2010)
- PhD program – one of top 10 programs in the nation - National Research Council (ranked in 2010)
