About the School

Personalized nursing education and state-of-the-art facilities. Part of the world-renowned Duke University Medical Center and Duke University. Your opportunity to go beyond traditional borders—to where nursing has power to impact the world.

Duke University School of Nursing as a diverse community of scholars and clinicians, educates the next generation of transformational leaders in nursing, advances nursing science in issues of global import, and fosters the scholarly practice of nursing. In 2011, U.S. News and World Report ranked Duke among the top seven graduate schools of nursing in the nation. The National Institutes of Health awarded $4.3 million in research funding to DUSON (Oct. 1, 2011, through Sept. 30, 2012), making it one of the top 10 nursing schools engaged with NIH-funded research. The school offers the masters, PhD, and doctor of nursing practice degrees, as well as an accelerated bachelor of science in nursing degree to students who have previously graduated from college.

Message from the Dean

At Duke University School of Nursing, students and faculty engage in collaborative learning in service of a common goal: forwarding the field of nursing through both what is learned and through what is done. It is knowledge in service of real-world nursing. The pace is invigorating, the future exciting, and the challenge enormous.

Fast Facts

Who we are, what we do, and where we are going.

Facilities

Classrooms—both physical and virtual. Faculty as close as the room next door or your laptop connection. Space for study, conversation, and group projects—when and where you need it. Duke University School of Nursing is where learning happens, research flourishes, and personal pathways open to expanded opportunities in the field of nursing.