Undergraduate Program
Nationally ranked. Mission driven.
The Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing’s top-ranked Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree lays the foundation for your nursing career. Our rigorous curriculum and state-of-the-art simulation labs equip nurses with the clinical skills and knowledge to excel in the rapidly evolving field of health care.
Loyola’s Jesuit values further set us apart. Our commitment to cura personalis, or care for the whole person, and social justice is woven throughout our program, preparing nurses ready to create a more equitable health care system.
Choose from our four-year BSN track or earn your degree in just 16 months through our Accelerated BSN track, which offers hybrid and on-campus options to fit your needs.
Take the next step
Apply to our four-year BSN nursing program through Loyola University Chicago's application system, or apply to the ABSN program online.
Program Goal
Our BSN degree prepares baccalaureate generalist nurses to provide competent, holistic care across the lifespan to individuals, families, and communities.
Program Outcomes
Loyola Nursing graduates are prepared to:
- Synthesize knowledge from liberal arts, sciences, and nursing science as a basis for professional nursing practice.
- Integrate levels of prevention, quality, safety concepts and principles and leadership into professional nursing practice.
- Provide culturally competent, effective and patient-centered professional nursing care to individuals, families and communities across the lifespan.
- Demonstrate the ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with the patient and interprofessional team to deliver evidence-based, safe, patient centered care to individuals, families and communities.
- Integrate values, ethics and legal knowledge into nursing practice.
- Integrate scientific evidence and patient, family and community preferences into the planning, implementation and evaluation of professional nursing care.
- Apply skills of information technology and information management effectively in professional nursing practice.
- Analyze ways governmental, institutional and professional policies directly and indirectly influence the health care system and population health.
Nationally ranked. Mission driven.
The Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing’s top-ranked Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree lays the foundation for your nursing career. Our rigorous curriculum and state-of-the-art simulation labs equip nurses with the clinical skills and knowledge to excel in the rapidly evolving field of health care.
Loyola’s Jesuit values further set us apart. Our commitment to cura personalis, or care for the whole person, and social justice is woven throughout our program, preparing nurses ready to create a more equitable health care system.
Choose from our four-year BSN track or earn your degree in just 16 months through our Accelerated BSN track, which offers hybrid and on-campus options to fit your needs.