Program Highlights
Established in 1948 as South Florida’s first baccalaureate nursing program, the School of Nursing and Health Studies has a rich tradition of preparing health professionals to provide compassionate, quality care to local and global communities.
- Located at the crossroads of the Caribbean and the Americas, the University of Miami provides a unique multicultural environment in which to study and practice. The school serves some of the most multiethnic, multicultural, health at-risk communities in the nation.
- With the only nursing program statewide affiliated with a major academic medical center, a private, acute care hospital, and a public teaching hospital system, the school enjoys a unique network of over 170 clinical partners, including:
- UM Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, one of the nation’s premier academic medical centers;
- University of Miami Hospital, a private, 560-bed acute care hospital; and
- UM/Jackson Memorial Hospital, a 1,567 bed, public teaching hospital in inner-city Miami that serves the largest proportion of Medicaid and indigent clients in Florida.
- The new, state-of-the-art M. Christine Schwartz Center for Nursing and Health Studies provides nursing and health science students with a world-class learning environment at the heart of the beautiful Coral Gables Campus.
- The school’s International Academy for Clinical Simulation and Research ranks among the most advanced facilities in the nation designed specifically for nursing and health science education. The Academy’s 4 simulation labs can replicate virtually any condition or setting encountered in health care today—from surgery, critical care, and emergency medicine to obstetrics, neonatal intensive care, and home health care.
- International study opportunities afford students hands-on experience with global health issues in Chile, Haiti, Mexico, and Spain.
- Students at the school are educated by renowned scholars and exposed to cutting-edge research. Over half of the school’s faculty are engaged in collaborative research projects in areas ranging from health disparities and minority health to HIV/AIDS, substance abuse and intimate partner violence, maternal-child health, and patient safety.
- Freshmen accepted at UM are ensured progression into the upper division of the BSN providing that they complete the pre-requisite coursework and maintain the requisite GPA.
