Our post-master's curriculum is designed as a three-year plan of study for full-time students. Our post-bachelor’s curriculum is designed to be completed in 4-5 years with full-time study.
Our benchmarks include:
End of Year 1: Completion of nursing core courses
End of Year 2: Completion of all coursework; written and oral comprehensive examinations; proposal defense
End of Year 3: Final defense of dissertation and graduation
Sample Curriculum: 3-Year Program of Study for Post-Master’s Entry
Year 1 — Fall
Year 1 — Spring
Summer
NUR 61200: Responsible Conduct of Research (1 credit)
NUR 69010: Research Seminar (1 credit)
NUR 69900: Research PhD (1-3 credits) OR
6XXXX: Elective (3 credits)
NUR 69030: Communication Seminar (1 credit)
6XXXX: Elective (3 credits)
NUR 69060: Innovative Care/Innovations in Healthcare Delivery (3 credits)
XXXX: Qualitative Methods (3 credits)
NUR 63200: Health Policy: Local to Global* (3 credits)
NUR 69050: Implementing Theory in Healthcare Research (3 credits)
GRAD 60400: PhD Seminar (0 credit; meets 3x a semester
NUR 60400: PhD Seminar (0 credit; meets 3x a semester
NUR 69100: Healthcare Research Methods (3 credits)
Year 2 — Fall
Year 2 — Spring
Summer
NUR 69200: Applied Statistics in Healthcare Reserch (3 credits)
XXXXX: Research Methods (3 credits) (Students select either HK 465 or NUR 510*
GRAD 61200: Responsible Conduct of research (1 credit)
NUR 62600: Applied Biostatistics (3 credits)
NUR 69020: Leadership Seminar (1 credit) (1st 8 weeks)
NUR 60400: PhD Seminar (0 credits; meets 3x a semester)
NUR 69040: Collaboration Seminar Credit (1 credit) (2nd 8 weeks)
NUR 60400: PhD Seminar (0 credits; meets 3x a semester)
Year 2 — Fall
Year 2 — Spring
Summer
NUR 68001 DNP/PhD Cognate (3 credits) (optional, or elective, discuss with mentor)
NUR 50500: Sociocultural Influences on Health (2 credits)
NUR 69060: Innovations in Healthcare Delivery (3 credits)
NUR 52500: Informatics in Nursing (3 credits)
NUR 69200: Applied Statistics in Healthcare (3 credits)
NUR 69100: Healthcare Research Methods (3 credits)
6XXXX: Elective (3 credits)
NUR 69030: Communication Seminar (1 credit) (1st 8 weeks)
NUR 60400: PhD seminar (0 credits; meets 3x a semester)
NUR 69010 Research Seminar (1 credit) (2nd 8 weeks)
NUR 60400: PhD seminar (0 credits; meets 3x a semester)
Year 3 — Fall
Year 3 — Spring
Summer
6XXXX: Elective (3 credits)
XXXXX: Advanced Methods/Statistics (3 credits)
XXXXX: Advanced Methods/Statistics (3 credits)
NUR 50500: Sociocultural Influences on Health (2 credits)
NUR 69900: Research PhD (3 credits)
6XXXX: Elective (3 credits)
NUR 60400: PhD seminar (0 credits; meets 3x a semester)
NUR 69900: Research PhD (3 credits)
NUR 60400: PhD seminar (0 credits; meets 3x a semester)
Year 4 — Fall
Year 4 — Spring
Summer
NUR 69900: Research PhD (6 credits)
NUR 69900: Research PhD (6 credits)
NUR 69900: Research PhD (6 credits) (if needed)
NUR 60400: PhD seminar (0 credits; meets 3x a semester)
NUR 60400: PhD seminar (0 credits; meets 3x a semester)
Purdue policy: PhD students need to have a minimum of 90 credits between the courses on the PhD plan, master's credits, and satisfactory 69900 research.
