The Path to Your Calling Starts Here
The Husson University College of Health and Professional Studies offers a fully accredited path toward the nursing or healthcare career you’ve always dreamed of. With direct access to clinical experiences, hands-on training, and faculty who are active practitioners, you’ll be prepared to enter healthcare’s most in-demand fields, with the skills, confidence, and patient experience employers are looking for.
Healthcare Programs
If helping others is your calling, let us help you enter the healthcare field with confidence and competence. From nursing to health sciences to pre-medicine, Husson offers multiple paths to prepare you for a career or further study in healthcare. Our nursing program prepares you for a meaningful career through rigorous academics, hands-on clinical training in state-of-the-art simulation centers, and compassionate care principles.
Health Sciences
Want to begin a career that makes a real impact on real lives? Explore what it takes to become a healthcare or healing arts practitioner. Husson’s Health Sciences program offers a flexible, faculty-guided curriculum that prepares you for a wide range of health and medical careers — or for graduate programs in medicine, public health, veterinary health, or allied health, including a direct pathway into Husson’s Physical Therapy or Occupational Therapy program.
Nursing
We proudly partner with Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center to offer a Bachelor’s degree program focused on best practice-based experiential learning and accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE). You’ll practice laboratory skills, participate in targeted simulation exercises, and have opportunities to get hands-on in diverse clinical opportunities, all guided by active nursing leaders and practitioners. You could also choose to pursue further education, such as a Master of Science in Nursing degree with our flex Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program, an on-campus, year-round degree program that offers the quality education and support you need to excel in the field of nursing, all at a pace that fits your needs.
Pre-Medicine
Begin your journey to medical school with this rigorous, science-based course of study. The Husson University Pre-Medicine curriculum places a heavy emphasis on anatomy, biology, chemistry, epidemiology, immunology, microbiology, and physiology, and provides the lab experience you’ll need to be prepared for medical school applications. We recognize that applying to medical school can be stressful no matter how well prepared you are, so we assist our pre-medicine student with a dedicated pre-med advisor in addition to academic and professional advising support.
Career Outcomes
Husson University graduates’ skills are in demand across the full spectrum of patient care, in settings including:
- Urgent care and hospitals
- Community health and public health organizations
- Primary care clinics
- Psychiatric offices
- Skilled nursing facilities
- Assisted living
- Long-term care facilities
Faculty Spotlight
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Valerie Sauda, PhD, GERO-RN ™, CNE
