Graduate Nursing Programs

We are thrilled to have you join our community, where we are dedicated to cultivating a courageous and inclusive environment for professionals who strive for excellence in education, research, and public service. Our mission is to educate nurses and advance rigorous and effective academic programs to foster a diverse and resilient nursing workforce.

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Graduate Nursing Programs

We are thrilled to have you join our community, where we are dedicated to cultivating a courageous and inclusive environment for professionals who strive for excellence in education, research, and public service. Our mission is to educate nurses and advance rigorous and effective academic programs to foster a diverse and resilient nursing workforce.

Programs

This program will prepare students with the core of advanced practice competencies to advance their career.

Read more about the MSN program

The MSN Nurse Educator track prepares nurses for teaching roles in academic settings and in professional development services of health care agencies.

Read more about the MSN Nurse Educator track

This theoretical and clinically-based curriculum prepares nurses as primary health care providers who promote health, prevent illness, and manage common health problems across the lifespan.

Read more about the Family Nurse Practitioner curriculum

The Certificate of Advanced Study (CAS) is available to the Registered Nurse who possesses a Master of Science degree in Nursing and wants to be prepared as a family nurse practitioner, a nurse educator, or as a nurse administrator.

Read more about the CAS program

The School of Nursing only offers one graduate certificate [Nurse Educator Certificate] but others are available to students, depending on interests. 

Read more about the graduate certificate students

CCNE Accredited

The Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) serves the public interest by assessing and identifying programs that engage in effective educational practices. As a voluntary, self-regulatory process, CCNE accreditation supports and encourages continuing self-assessment by nursing programs and supports continuing growth and improvement of collegiate professional education and nurse residency/fellowship programs.

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Why Should You Get an Advanced Nursing Degree?

Nurse Practitioners, nurse educators, nurse administrators, and nurses in other advanced roles are prepared to help meet state needs to eliminate health disparities, assure quality of care, and to improve public health and health care systems. Graduates of this program have provided advanced direct patient care across the global community, assumed positions of leadership in primary care, hospital administration, nursing education, and administration of health care systems in Maine and elsewhere.

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Why Should You Get an Advanced Nursing Degree?

Nurse Practitioners, nurse educators, nurse administrators, and nurses in other advanced roles are prepared to help meet state needs to eliminate health disparities, assure quality of care, and to improve public health and health care systems. Graduates of this program have assumed positions of leadership in primary care, hospital administration, nursing education, and administration of health care systems in Maine and elsewhere

A photo of nursing graduates before graduation

SON News

UMaine School of Nursing expanding programming for aspiring family nurse practitioners 

The University of Maine School of Nursing received a $1.96 million grant to provide financial assistance and new educational opportunities to aspiring family nurse practitioners who can help improve access to primary care in rural and underserved regions of Maine.

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UMaine School of Nursing receives $550K for graduate scholarships

The University of Maine School of Nursing received a $550,000 grant from the Helene Fuld Health Trust for scholarships to support students enrolled in the Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) program, the largest gift that the UMaine School of Nursing has ever received.