Welcome to the University of South Carolina College of Nursing website! As you pursue your way through it, I hope you begin to experience the positive energy that the faculty, curriculum, and special programs offer. There is a rich and wonderful history here. This is the place where your career dreams can be fulfilled and where we believe that “Every Nurse is a Leader!”

Nursing is a career that is challenging and rewarding. Whether you are pursuing a dream of becoming a nurse through our undergraduate program, or are expanding your career through our graduate and doctoral programs with the goal of becoming an advanced practice nurse, nurse leader or nurse researcher – the human, material and technological resources to support your potential are here. Dare to dream and dare to do – for there are incredible nursing opportunities at all program levels to equip you in meeting the emerging consumer demands within a rapidly changing healthcare delivery system.

Nursing is a career that encompasses caring, science, humanities, organizational savvy, the capacity to manage in complex situations, and more! We constantly seek students and faculty who have the developmental capacity to embrace these multiple dimensions to provide patient- and family-centered care within communities, contribute to the public’s health by generating knowledge through nursing and interdisciplinary research, and engage in advanced practice. As biotechnology, genomics and other exciting advances become prevalent, each presents new opportunities for nurses to bring advanced therapies to patients.

I hope that you will not only visit this website, but will also visit our campus and College of Nursing – one of the largest in the southeast. The College is poised to lead the way in establishing premier collaborative partnerships with a full complement of academic, practice and research initiatives.

I promise you a warm welcome!