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A DNP prepares you to take on advanced clinical roles, leadership positions, and evidence-based practice in healthcare settings. It equips you with the skills to implement and evaluate healthcare policies, improve patient outcomes, and lead healthcare teams.
Every community—urban or rural, wealthy or not—deserves quality healthcare. At SUNY Downstate, diversity is a driving force: we believe nursing needs to reflect the communities we serve. More than 70 percent of our nursing students are members of minority groups.
SUNY Downstate is the only academic medical center in Brooklyn. As a nursing student, you'll collaborate with experts such as nurse practitioners, physicians, other health professionals, and researchers. These opportunities as well as access to our 8-bed Simulation Center, will give you new insights into the field—and the tools to narrow gaps in health care that are all too common.
Nurses everywhere are perpetually in demand—and graduates of SUNY Downstate's master's program in nursing find opportunities in every kind of healthcare setting.
Focus on obstetrics and gynecology in this program, which prepares you to assess patient needs and design customized healthcare plans.
The focus of this program is family health and prepares you to assess patient needs and design customized healthcare plans across various practice settings.
Downstate's faculty aren't just adept at care—they are trailblazers on the forefront of nursing innovation, scholarship, and thought leadership with a commitment to driving a more diverse and inclusive nursing workforce. Faculty here have launched a program expanding enrollment to veterans from diverse backgrounds, won millions in grants to support disadvantaged students, studied ways to improve reproductive care for women with disabilities, and contributed to the National Black Women's Health Project, to name a few.
Our nursing programs are accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), a nationally recognized organization.
Our Simulation Laboratory features a labor and delivery room, isolation room, critical care beds and step-down unit beds. Students can practice health assessment, psychomotor skills, critical thinking and teamwork.
Exceptional students can join Sigma Theta Tau, the national honor society of nursing.
If you were the first in your family to attend college, or are from an underserved community, you may be eligible for a scholarship worth up to $30,000.
Students with a bachelor's degree can complete the DNP program in seven semesters. Students with a master's degree and APRN certification can complete the program in six semesters.