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Master's degree program objectives are formulated on the clear assumption that graduate education builds upon undergraduate education. Graduate education is an intensive and analytic expansion of knowledge, enabling the perception and development of new and more complex relationships that affect nursing. Graduate education provides and ensures further opportunity for our students to think conceptually, to apply theory and research to practice, and to develop in-depth knowledge in a specialized area of advanced practice nursing.

The MS program prepares graduates:

Other objectives of the master's degree program are to provide our graduates with the ability to:

Admissions Requirements

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For those seeking non-degree admission see below.


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Contact the MS & Graduate Studies Office

Jane Kapustin, Associate Professor, Assistant Dean for Master’s Studies
University of Maryland School of Nursing
655 West Lombard Street
Baltimore, MD 21201-1579
410.706.4359
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