The Graduate School of Nursing offers master's, post-master's and doctoral degrees, providing high quality education to prepare registered professional and advanced practice nurses within nurse practitioner and nurse educator specialties. Subspecialty professional and clinical education is also offered in selected areas. The basis for study includes theoretical and scientific foundations of professional and advanced practice nursing, research process and design, societal forces that influence nursing, health systems, advanced pathophysiology, pharmacology, health assessment, clinical decision making, specialty content and clinical education.

The Graduate School of Nursing receives national accreditation from: 

Commission for Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE)
One Dupont Circle, NW
Suite 530
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: (202) 463-6930
Fax: (202) 785-8320
www.aacn.nche.edu/Accreditation 

The Graduate School receives state approval from: 

Board of Registration in Nursing 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
299 Causeway Street, Suite 500
Boston, MA 02114
(617) 727-9961
www.mass.gov/dpl/boards