Welcome to the College of Nursing Doctoral Program. We hope that you will find this site informative and helpful as you explore your options for doctoral education. Our program is clearly focused on the preparation of teacher-scholars who will be well-prepared to help alleviate the national nursing shortage by preparing diverse student populations for the delivery of nursing services.

Our program is also designed to be flexible in meeting your learning needs. The curriculum will be implemented using a fall and spring semester distance learning approach complemented by on-campus summer sessions. A non-Distance Learning option is available for international students. Whether you are on campus or at home, the College provides you with a personalized experience -- one of the hallmarks of a Villanova Nursing program. We look forward to hearing from you.

Application Deadline

Don't miss the January 15th deadline to apply to the PhD in Nursing Program.

Hear from our students

Watch these videos of our doctoral students as they describe why they selected Villanova's PhD in Nursing program and what their experience is like.

Betsy Romeo

Kate Morse

Pennie Sessler Branden

Lori Rusch

Jodie Szlachta

“The Villanova University nursing program enjoys a reputation as a supportive learning environment that is conducive to the creativity of faculty and students and promotes education by its flexible design and implementation of a distance learning approach.”

Ruth Crothers, MSN, APRN-BC, CNOR
Doctoral student