Basic Facts
- 1,275 students
- 53 standing faculty, 34 full-time lecturers
- Dean: Antonia M. Villarruel, PhD, RN, FAAN
- Ranked #1 nursing school in the world by QS World University
- Ranked #1: Four of our MSN programs by U.S. News & World Report (most of any school of nursing)
- Ranked #3 by U.S. News & World Report in Nursing Graduate Programs
- Ranked #1 in NIH funding among schools of nursing
- Most selective undergraduate program at Penn
- 8:1 student-faculty ratio in clinical settings
- 14 active, nursing-centered student organizations
- 90% of Penn Nursing BSN graduates go on to pursue their MSN
- Three T32 institutional training grants from the National Institute of Nursing Research for pre-doctoral and post-doctoral fellows
- Nearly 14,000 alumni living in 51 countries
Students
- BSN: 589
- MSN: 587
- DNP: 47
- PhD: 52
- Non-degree and certificates: 24
- Post-MSN: 81
- BSN Second Degree: 61
- Racial or ethnic minorities: 35.7%
- Male: 10.3%
- Low student-faculty ratio in labs and clinical courses
- Marshall and Thouron scholars, and NIH doctoral fellows
Undergraduate degree options
Graduate degree options
Faculty
- Highest percentage of Fellows of the American Academy of Nursing and members of the National Academy of Medicine than any other peer institution
- American Academy of Nursing Living Legends and American Nurses Association Hall of Fame honorees
- 10 members of the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame
- Editors of leading scientific journals and researchers who amass hundreds of publications and thousands of citations annually
- Our scientists consistently receive more research funding from the National Institutes of Health than any other private nursing school
School of Nursing firsts
- First nursing doctorate in the Ivy League
- First privately funded center for nursing research in the country
- First school at Penn and one of the first in North America to be named a World Health Organization Collaborating Center
- First operating room nurse in the nation
- First nurse anesthetist in Philadelphia
- One of the first aerospace nurses in the NASA program
- First nurse to receive the MacArthur Fellowship, known as the “genius” award
- Among the first endowed chairs for nursing in the country
- First nursing school to use interactive simulated (SIM) patients
- One of the first nursing schools to integrate the electronic health record into the curriculum