The Nursing Science major research program focuses on the study of advanced clinical practices, research methodologies, the administration of complex nursing services, and that prepares nurses to further the progress of nursing research through experimentation and clinical applications.
Please consult the UMW Undergraduate Catalog for specific and up-to-date major requirements.
Thinking About This Major?
The Center for Career & Professional Development has many tools and resources available to help you choose your major. Below are three of them:
Focus 2: A series of reliable, intuitive, career and education decision-making assessments to help students select a major, explore occupations, make informed career decisions, and take action in their career development.
Skills developed as a Nursing Science major (via Focus2): Equipment selection, helping, listening, managing time, reading comprehensiong, reasoning, social perceptiveness, speaking, teaching, writing and authoring.
What Can I Do With This Major: Learn more about what you can do as a Nursing Science major! Some areas of career options are staff nursing, community and public health, government, telehealth, research, education, and international health.
Handshake: UMW’s online career management platform that includes the latest jobs from employers hiring at your school. You can search for organizations based on major, location, job type, and many other categories.
Nursing Science – Current Job Opportunities
Note: Job & Internship opportunities are pulled from UMW’s online job and internship database, Handshake, and update every 12 hours. Log into your UMW Handshake account to find hundreds of other opportunities and events.
Senior Laboratory Manager 2
Experienced Fleet Mechanic
Supervising Nurse (Correctional Facility) (40 Hour)
Domestic Violence Advocate (@ Friends, Inc.)
Prevention Educator (@ Friends, Inc.)
Senior Laboratory Manager 2
Experienced Fleet Mechanic
Supervising Nurse (Correctional Facility) (40 Hour)
Domestic Violence Advocate (@ Friends, Inc.)
Prevention Educator (@ Friends, Inc.)
Nursing Science – Current Internship Opportunities
Career Pathways Volunteer
Global Mission Fellow US-2 Track
Sports Management Summer Camp Internship - (PAID)
Exercise Science Summer Camp Internship - (PAID)
Education/Youth Development Summer Camp Internship - (PAID)
Career Pathways Volunteer
Global Mission Fellow US-2 Track
Sports Management Summer Camp Internship - (PAID)
Exercise Science Summer Camp Internship - (PAID)
Education/Youth Development Summer Camp Internship - (PAID)
Nursing Science Graduate Data
Note: Undergraduate outcome data is collected by the UMW Career Center each year. The data is then broken down by major in order to determine how many graduates in each major are employed, attending graduate school, or pursuing a different path within 6 months of graduation.
- “knowledge rate” defines the percent of graduates for which the institution has reasonable and verifiable information concerning the graduates’ post-graduation career activities
- “career outcome rate” is the number of graduates who have landed in any of the employment categories (full-time, part-time, internship) in addition to service, military, and continuing education divided by the total number of students for whom an outcome is known.
Nursing Alumni (2018-2022)
Total Graduates: 222
Knowledge Rate: 68%
Career Outcome Rate: 98%
- Employed Full-time: 94%
- Employed Part-time: 3%
- Grad School: 1%
- Waiting on Grad School: 1%
- Seeking Employment: 1%
Where do our alumni land?
Companies
Alumni Success Stories
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