The Rutgers Nursing Edge
Rutgers School of Nursing is where research meets real-world impact. Powered by nurse scientists, innovators, educators, leaders, and students, we don’t just shape the future of nursing — we define it.
Points of Pride
As one of the nation’s largest, most comprehensive nursing schools, Rutgers School of Nursing is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in education, research, evidence-based health care delivery, and the promotion of community health.
Offering programs across all levels of nursing practice — bachelor’s, advanced practice, doctoral, and certificate and professional development programs — there’s no better place in New Jersey for a nursing education.
Home to New Jersey’s #1 nursing programs, including:
A History of Impactful Research
Rutgers School of Nursing is an expanding research powerhouse rooted in a university-wide tradition of excellence, innovation, and collaboration. As the academic backbone of the State of New Jersey, with $929.3 million currently in research and sponsored programs, Rutgers is among America’s highest-ranked, public, and research-intensive universities.
School of Nursing is one of the eight schools comprising Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS) — New Jersey’s largest and most influential constellation of academic institutions devoted to nursing, medicine, dentistry, advanced health-related sciences, pharmacy, public health, and the full spectrum of allied health careers.
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Historical Briefing
On July 1, 2013, the New Jersey Medical and Health Sciences Education Restructuring Act went into effect, integrating Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, with most units of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ).
This merger created a new division within Rutgers University, the Rutgers Biomedical Health Sciences (RBHS) division, providing health care education, research, and clinical service. It is the umbrella organization for eight schools, four centers and institutes, and a behavioral health network.
Rutgers School of Nursing (SON), the largest and most comprehensive nursing education program in New Jersey and one of eight schools encompassed by RBHS, emerged from the integration of the former Rutgers College of Nursing and legacy UMDNJ School of Nursing.
Former Dean and Distinguished Professor at Rutgers College of Nursing, William L. Holzemer, PhD, RN, FAAN, officially became the dean of the unified School of Nursing as of July 1, 2014.
Rutgers School of Nursing includes more than 95 full-time faculty members, 100 staff members, and 1,900 students, with campus locations in Newark, New Brunswick, and Blackwood, NJ.
