The school offers a dual-degree program with several colleges, providing undergraduates with a strong background in liberal arts and nursing. The school’s master’s program offers opportunities to specialize in advanced nursing practice in a number of clinical settings and roles. Graduates are qualified to seek certification as nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, and/or clinical nurse specialists. A dual-degree option is available with the Rollins School of Public Health, allowing students to graduate with master’s degrees in both nursing and public health. In this program, students can major in international nursing, a rare offering in the United States or around the world. The school’s PhD program is focused on generating new knowledge to improve health and health care quality, with emphasis on research on bio-behavioral determinants of health, improving global health, and enhancing health systems.

In 2007, the school received $3.3 million in research funding. Nationally, the school ranks in the top 10 among private schools in research funding from the NIH. It currently is ranked 26th overall by U.S. News & World Report, which also ranked the school’s nurse midwifery graduate 5program eighth in the nation. Major programs include the Center for Research on Symptoms, Symptom Interactions, and Health Outcomes; the Lillian Carter Center for International Nursing; and the Fuld Fellowship, which targets second-career students with a special interest in serving vulnerable populations. The nursing school has 65 faculty and is affiliated with more than 300 clinical sites and 25 sites for community service learning. Additional learning sites are available, including an alternative spring break in four countries and a multiuniversity, multidiscipline collaborative summer program with Georgia migrant farm workers. The school has approximately 10,000 graduates.