Overview

You will generate and disseminate knowledge to advance nursing science and facilitate its translation into practice while designing and evaluating innovations to improve health outcomes. Our program is built to work with your education experience with a BSN-PhD option, MS-PhD option, a PhD/DNP dual degree and a post-DNP PhD option with an individualized plan of study.

PhD Curriculum & Tracks

Part-time and full-time options are available for all pathways. Full-time study requires a minimum of 9 credits per semester. MS-PhD students who have not completed a graduate statistics course within the past five years will be required to enroll in a graduate statistics course the first fall semester of the program. The PhD program coursework is completed fully-online. Students are required to attend a mandatory, on-campus, one-week orientation known as the Resident Intensive Summer Experience (RISE) each year.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Statistics for the Health Sciences

Advanced Statistics for the Health Sciences

Philosophy of Nursing Science and Practice

Theory Development and Evaluation

Proposal Writing for Research

Quantitative Methods in Clinical Nursing Research

Key information

Duration

Part-time
- 60 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-08-24 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-03-01 00:00:00

Language

English

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Credits

64 SCH

Delivered

Online

Campus Location

Tucson, United States

Disciplines

Nursing View 146 other PhDs in Nursing in United States

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Academic requirements

GPA

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Other requirements

General requirements

Cumulative GPA of 3.0 or above for BSN applicants

Cumulative GPA of 3.5 or above for MSN applicants

Degree awarded from a regionally accredited institution

Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

23400 USD / year

≈ 23400 USD / year
Out-of-State

23400 USD / year

≈ 23400 USD / year
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In-State

12700 USD / year

≈ 12700 USD / year

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