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Your path.
Your purpose.
Your impact.

At Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, you’ll find top-ranked graduate programs for every stage of your journey—from entry into nursing to advanced practice, leadership, and research. With innovative, accessible formats, dual degrees, and specialized certificates, and rooted in the legacy of the nation’s first research-based university, you can shape a career that changes lives, starting with your own.

Are you ready to lead?

Choose from our doctoral, master’s, and certificate programs

Doctoral Programs

Care deeply. Lead powerfully.

Become a nurse practitioner or nurse anesthetist through advanced, real-world clinical training. You’ll graduate ready to lead in any setting with compassion, expertise, and purpose.

Our top-ranked DNP Nurse Practitioner tracks combine online coursework with immersive, hands-on learning experiences. Our Nurse Anesthesia track features cutting-edge simulation and interprofessional training with the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

No matter your path, you’ll be supported by expert faculty and dedicated staff—every step of the way.

Lead health care at the highest level—with purpose, expertise, and impact.

The top-ranked Johns Hopkins School of Nursing DNP Post-Master’s Track is tailored for advanced practice nurses, nurse leaders, and scholars ready to drive change. This online doctoral program offers dual degree options ( DNP/MBA in partnership with the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School; DNP/MPH in partnership with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health), and specialized pathways in Leadership, Health Policy, Planetary Health, Nursing Education, Global Health and Artificial Intelligence. Each track is designed to elevate your knowledge, amplify your influence, and drive meaningful change across health care systems.

The DNP Post-Master’s track also offers the option of a dual MPH degree with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health for nurse leaders who want to address the most critical public health challenges of our time.

The DNP Post-Master’s track also offers the option of a dual MBA degree with the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School for nurse leaders who want to promote the best clinical care while understanding the health system bottom line.

Ask big questions. Discover bold answers. Join a dynamic community of nurse scientists pushing boundaries and producing evidence that drives real-world impact. If you want to transform the future of health through science and ground-breaking research, this is your path.

MASTERS Programs

Change careers. Change lives.

Your background isn’t in health care, but your future is. Our top-ranked, accelerated program is grounded in research and built for bold career changers ready to become nurses and make an immediate impact. With immersive clinical training in the Baltimore-Washington, DC metro area, a strong sense of community, and a commitment to equity and innovation, this is where your next chapter begins.

Step into the future of health care.

Want to lead systems, not just teams? This flexible, online program—offering the Healthcare Organizational Leadership MSN or the combined MSN/MBA with the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School—prepares you to drive change across organizations. Through policy, strategy, innovation, and business acumen, you’ll gain the skills to shape systemic improvements. It all starts here.

The MSN/MBA dual degree program prepares students to provide exceptional patient care, while effecting positive change at health care leadership and corporate levels. Students learn how to use evidence-based data analysis to help set organizational policy and priorities, while being ever-mindful of patient needs.

CERTIFICATE Programs

Grounded in Johns Hopkins’ commitment to innovation, quality, and flexibility, each certificate offers deep specialization in an online format that can be completed in about a year, expert faculty instruction, and clinical experiences tailored to your professional setting. It all starts here.

WE Are HOPKINS NURSING

WORLD-RENOWNED

Diverse Faculty and Researchers

STRONG AFFILIATIONS

with JHU Schools of Medicine, Public Health and Business

DEDICATED TEAM

Organizes High-Quality Clinical Placements For All Programs

Generous scholarships and grants are available

Kristen Brown and Lisa Stambolis

Nurse practitioners Kristen Brown and Lisa Stambolis represent two different ends of the pediatric NP spectrum — acute care and community health. But after decades spent with youth from birth to 22, in various stages of health, there’s much to talk about. Kristen Brown, DNP, CRNP, CPNP-AC, CHSE-A, FAAN, is an acute care pediatric nurse practitioner, associate professor and Associate Dean for Simulation and Immersive Learning at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. Lisa Stambolis, RN, CPNP, is a community health pediatric nurse practitioner and senior project manager for the school’s Neighborhood Nursing program – a new, nurse-led initiative for community health. See the full interview here.

Awards & Recognition

AAMN Best Schools for Men in Nursing Award Badge

Discover the career you were destined for all along

No matter where you are in your health care career, the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing has a program for you.
Contact us to begin your application today.