Advance in Healthcare with SVSU's Master of Science in Nursing!

The Master of Science in Nursing degree at SVSU prepares registered professional nurses for practice as a Nurse Educator, Nurse Administrator, or Dual Nurse Education / Nurse Administrator. More affordable than comparable programs with a variety of loans and scholarships available, SVSU’s Master of Science in Nursing program is a convenient and cost-effective way to advance your nursing career. 

You can go from showing up for a shift, to showing up for your community. Designed for the working nurse, our Master of Science in Nursing program teaches valuable leadership techniques from experienced educators with real-world experience. Immerse yourself in a supportive and flexible environment that prepares you to work with your team and transform systems in clinical and academic settings, as well as in your communities.

MSN Nurse Educator, MSN Nurse Administrator and MSN Dual Nurse Educator/Nurse Administrator programs are fully online.

The Primary Care Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) degree is now integrated into the BSN to DNP program. To learn more about this exciting opportunity, please visit the Doctor of Nursing Practice program.

Industry Outlook

SVSU's MSN offers working adults a flexible solution for earning their degree from a highly ranked and nationally recognized program.

Program Outcomes

1. The graduate integrates, translates, and applies the knowledge of nursing practice as well as knowledge from other disciplines, including a foundation in liberal arts and natural and social sciences.
2. The graduate leads in person-centered care that focuses on the individual within multiple complicated contexts, including family and/or important others.
3. The graduate leads in population health that spans the healthcare delivery continuum for the improvement of equitable population health outcomes.
4. The graduate leads in the generation, synthesis, translation, application, and dissemination of nursing knowledge to improve health and transform health care.
5. The graduate leads in quality and safety by employment of established and emerging principles of safety and improvement science.
6. The graduate leads in intentional collaboration across professions and with care team members, patients, families, communities, and other stakeholders to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience and strengthen outcomes.
7. The graduate leads in complex systems of health care to provide safe, quality, equitable care to diverse populations.
8. The graduate leads in information and communication technologies and informatics processes to provide care, gather data, form information to drive decision-making, and support professionals.
9. The graduate advances a sustainable professional nursing identity, accountability, perspective, collaborative disposition, and comportment that reflects nursing’s characteristics and values.
10. The graduate uses self-reflection in activities that foster personal health, resilience, and well-being, lifelong learning, and support the acquisition of nursing expertise and assertion of leadership.