Academic Program

The Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) is a four-year course that is competency-based, community-oriented, and value-based. The program aims to prepare beginning professional nurses, who shall:

The primary goal of the masters program in Nursing is to prepare qualified nurses for clinical specialization and leadership in any of the following major fields:

• Adult Health Nursing
• Community Health Nursing
• Maternal and Child Nursing
• Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing
• Nursing Administration
• School Health Nursing

This goal can be attained through:

The Ph.D. (Nursing) degree was first instituted on September 27, 1979. The latest curricular revisions were approved by the UP Board of Regents on February 1, 1995.
The main purpose of the program leading to the Ph.D. (Nursing) is to strengthen and deepen the intellectual and scholastic capability of graduate nurses in order to enhance the theory and science-based practice of the profession.