Category Archives: Academics

Update: Check out UCF’s 2018 US News College Rankings for the latest news on UCF as a one of the country’s most innovative colleges.Twenty-two University of Central Florida graduate programs were ranked in the top 100 in their respective fields by U.S. News & World Report’s Best Graduate Schools of 2018 released Tuesday. For the first time all seven […]

When you sit a group of College of Nursing students around a table to talk about their path to nursing, a few words come up over and over. Passion. Sacrifice. Impact. When the discussion turns to the scholarship they each received from the Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation, another word rings loud and clear: gratitude. The […]

Graduates from two of UCF’s nurse practitioner programs achieved a perfect score on their national board certification exams this semester. Altogether, 29 College of Nursing’s graduates achieved certification as either adult-gerontology primary nurse practitioners or family nurse practitioners, two specialties that are in growing demand in the health care market. The certification exams are the […]

To meet the growing demand for higher educated nurses in Central Florida and nationwide, the UCF College of Nursing has expanded its faculty with three new tenure-earning faculty members, leveraging their expertise in the areas of nurse leadership and management, gerontology and mental health. “The college continues to expand programs and faculty to provide a high quality […]

As National Nurse Practitioner Week comes to a close, the UCF College of Nursing would like to honor its nurse practitioner alumni for passing their board certification exams. The most recent graduates of two nurse practitioner programs at the UCF College of Nursing passed their national certification exam, earning the college a 100 percent pass rate in both categories and exceeding national averages. […]