School Facts

Ranked 2nd by U.S.News & World Report
for Community Health Nursing Programs and 4th for Graduate Programs

Students/Alumni
Baccalaureate: 373
Master's/Post-Master's: 226
Doctoral (PhD): 23
Racial or ethnic minorities: 25.1% Male: 8.6%
More than half of baccalaureate students hold previous bachelor's degree
70% of dissertation phase doctoral students receive NIH funding
Low student/faculty ratio 1:5 in labs, 1:7 in clinical courses
94.4% of baccalaureate graduates pass NCLEX the first time taken
Home to the nation's 1st Peace Corps Fellows Program in nursing

Faculty
Full-time: 68
Part-time: 117
Racial or ethnic minorities: 12% Male: 3%
5 Endowed Chairs
78 joint appointments
32% of full-time ranked faculty are Fellows in the American Academy of Nursing

Academics
Baccalaureate programs: 2-year traditional and 13.5 month accelerated
Master's programs: MSN, MSN/MPH, MSN/MBA, MSN/MPH - NP option
Certificate programs: Hopkins Business of Nursing, Post-Master's Nurse Practitioner, and Post-Master's Emergency Preparedness/Disaster Response
PhD programs: Fellowships in Interdisciplinary Violence Research, Health Disparities in Underserved Populations, & Interdisciplinary Pain Research
Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP) program

Research

• Ranked 7th among nursing schools for NIH funding
• Receive approximately $7 million per year in research funding
• Interdisciplinary fellowships in research on violence, pain, and health disparities in underserved populations
• Targeted research areas in cardiovascular health prevention and risk reduction; care at end of life; community-based health promotion; health disparities; interpersonal violence; maternal-child health; psychoneuroimmunology; and symptom management
• Interdisciplinary and international student research opportunities under renowned faculty

Local to Global Initiatives

• 3 JHUSON sponsored clinics serving the city's most vulnerable communities
• Students and faculty volunteer more than 12,000 hours annually in 40 different community-based programs
• Office of Global Nursing coordinates and supports international activities and houses the PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for Knowledge Information Management and Sharing
• Formally collaborating with nursing institutions in 11 different countries

Facilities

• State-of-the-art and award winning building with a new addition coming soon.
• Only campus where all 3 top-ranked schools of nursing, medicine, and public health are adjacent to one another and within steps of the U.S.News & World Report's No. 1 hospital
• Integrated advanced information technology through partnership with Eclipsys