School Facts

• Ranked 2nd by U.S.News & World Report
  for Community Health Nursing Programs
• 4th for Graduate Programs
• 6th for NIH Funding among Schools of Nursing
  
  

Students/Alumni

Baccalaureate: 369
Master's/Post-Master's: 231
Doctoral (PhD): 24 / DNP: 51
Racial or ethnic minorities: 26.3% Male: 6%
71% of baccalaureate students hold previous bachelor's degrees
Low student/faculty ratio in labs and clinical courses
Nation's first baccalaureate Peace Corps Fellows Program in nursing
75% of PhD students at dissertation stage receive external research funding

Faculty

Full-time: 70
Part-time: 117
Racial or ethnic minorities: 8.1% Male: 11.4%
Five Endowed Chairs
67 joint appointments
40% of full-time ranked faculty are Fellows in the American Academy of Nursing
Academic Departments: Health Systems and Outcomes, Community Public Health, Acute and Chronic Care
Although JHUSON has fewer faculty members than other "top 10" nursing schools, the faculty is highly productive, ranking 6th among nursing schools in faculty scholarly productivity

Academics

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

Research

• More than $7 million per year received in research funding for FY09
• Center for Nursing Research and Sponsored Projects, which includes the Center for Collaborative Intervention Research and the Center for Cardiovascular Health in Vulnerable Populations (both NINR P30 Centers)
• Fellowships in interdisciplinary pain research, psychiatric/mental health nursing, and health disparities in underserved populations
• Targeted research areas in cardiovascular health; care at end of life; community-based health promotion; health disparities; interpersonal violence; psychoneuroimmunology; and symptom management. Growing Research expertise in the areas of Geriatrics, Global Health and Informatics/Simulation
• Interdisciplinary and international student research opportunities under renowned faculty

Initiatives and Outreach

• Three JHUSON sponsored clinics serving the city's most vulnerable communities
• Faculty and students volunteer more than 12,000 hours annually in 40 different community-based programs
• Faculty and student exchanges and collaborative initiatives with nursing institutions in twelve different countries
• Office of Global Nursing coordinates and supports international activities and houses the PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for Knowledge Information Management and Sharing
• Institute for Johns Hopkins Nursing, an innovative partnership with The Johns Hopkins Hospital Department of Nursing, fosters consultation and collaboration between nursing education and nursing practice

Facilities

• State-of-the-art and award winning building.
• 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