Overview
- Ranked #15 among Schools of Nursing receiving funding from the National Institutes of Health (2018 - Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research)
- Ranked #1 in Best Value PhD in Nursing Programs (2016 - Value Colleges)
- Ranked #5 in Best Value BSN Programs (2019 - Value Colleges)
- Ranked #7 in Best Value DNP Programs (2017 - Best College Values)
- Ranked #17 in the nation for best graduate nursing program (2017 - U.S. News & World Report)
- The major center of nursing education and scholarship in Texas
- More than $20 million in extramural funding
Students: 806
Charts showing the number of Undergraduate and Graduate Students and Degrees Awarded in 2018.
*Note: Asian-American/ Pacific Islander, African American, Native American, Hispanic
Faculty: 84
- 24 tenured/tenure-track faculty
- 60 clinical faculty (full- and part-time)
- 38 adjunct/affiliate faculty
- 28% of faculty are minorities; 6% are men
Staff: 80
- full- and part-time
Current Research
- 19 Research Grant Awards
- 9 Training and Special Projects
- 21 Pending Research Projects
- 2 Pending Training and Special Projects
- Total Value: 22.08 million
Fellows
- More than 100 Fellows in the American Academy of Nursing:
- 10 current faculty
- 8 faculty emeriti
- 84 alumni
- 2 Fellows in the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
- 1 Fellow in the American Academy of Sleep Medicine
- 1 Fellow in the American College of Critical Care Medicine
- 2 Fellows in the American Heart Association
- 2 Fellows in the Clinical Nurse Specialist Institute
- 3 Fellows in the Gerontological Society of America
- 1 Fellow in the Society of Behavioral Medicine