Union University is a private, four-year liberal arts university, founded in 1823, and affiliated with the Tennessee Baptist Convention. As an institution that is Baptist by tradition and evangelical by conviction, Union University has a heritage of academic excellence and is well known for providing a qualitatively distinctive Christian education.
The College of Nursing began in the early 1960's and prides itself on providing an excellent academic foundation in preparing undergraduate and graduate nursing students to serve the Lord according to their specialty of interest. The university is accredited by Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) while the College of Nursing is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) with specialty accreditation for the nurse anesthesia track by the Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Educational Programs (COA).
The purpose of the College of Nursing is to prepare competent professional nurses who provide caring therapeutic interventions to meet the health needs of culturally diverse persons. This is accomplished through enrollment in one of the 37 different educational tracks in our BSN, MSN, Post-Graduate Certificate or DNP programs. The BSN degree program has three tracks, MSN degree program has six tracks, Post-Graduate Certificate has five tracks, and the DNP degree program has six tracks. The BSN tracks include the accelerated, traditional, and RN-BSN. The MSN tracks include Nursing Education; Nursing Administration; Family Nurse Practitioner; and Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. The Post-Graduate Certificate tracks include Nursing Education, Nursing Administration, Family Nurse Practitioner, and Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. The DNP tracks include Nurse Anesthesia, Family Nurse Practitioner, Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. and Executive Leadership.