Your complete guide to studying Nursing

Everything you need to know about studying Nursing in 2024

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Nursing is the study of how to properly take care of people who are ill or disabled, recovering after a medical intervention, or suffering of old age. Nursing is a vocational subject, with a strong focus on practical experience in addition to regular Medical classes.

Nursing seeks to ask questions like: Which are the best ways to make patients comfortable and look after their health? How to take care of their physical, mental, and emotional needs? What are the best ways to support their families and friends during the recovery process?

Students can choose from different Nursing subdisciplines: Adult Nursing, Mental Health Nursing, Children Nursing, School Nursing, Learning Disabilities Nursing, Midwifery, and others.

A typical Nursing curriculum includes subjects like Clinical Health Care Ethics, Anatomy and Physiology, Pharmacology, Pathophysiology, Health Assessment, Therapeutic Nutrition, General Psychology, Intensive Therapy, Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, etc.

Nursing will help you become a specialised nurse in adult nursing, children’s nursing, learning disability nursing or mental health nursing. Or you can become a paramedic or a physician associate. In time, you can use your experience to take up a more demanding position, such as chief/head nurse, and thus manage and train your own team of nurses.

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University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, United States 1 1
King's College London London, United Kingdom 2 3
University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, United States 3 8
Maastricht University Maastricht, Netherlands 4 -
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands 5 -
Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands 6 -
KU Leuven Brussels, Belgium 7 -
Karolinska Institute Stockholm, Sweden 8 12
University of Technology Sydney Sydney, Australia 9 4
The University of Manchester Manchester, United Kingdom 10 4
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, United States 10 14
University of Toronto Pickering, Canada 12 6
Ghent University Ledeberg, Belgium 13 51
Griffith University Nathan, Australia 14 34
Taipei Medical University Taipei, Taiwan 15 51
University of Southampton Southampton, United Kingdom 16 10
University of Queensland Saint Lucia, Australia 17 38
University of Wisconsin Madison Madison, United States 18 51
University of Sydney Sydney, Australia 19 9
Emory University Atlanta, United States 20 51
University of Michigan Ann Arbor, United States 21 11
Western Sydney University Paramatta, Australia 22 51
Chang Gung University Banqiao, Taiwan 23 -
Curtin University Perth, Australia 24 51
National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan 25 20
University of Kansas Lawrence, United States 26 -
Duke University Durham, United States 27 22
National University of Singapore Singapore, Singapore 28 19
Erasmus University Rotterdam Rotterdam, Netherlands 29 -
New York University New York City, United States 30 25
University of Washington Seattle, United States 31 6
University of Alberta Edmonton, Canada 32 16
Humboldt University Berlin Berlin, Germany 33 -
University of Rochester Rochester, United States 34 -
University of Western Ontario London, Canada 35 51
Melbourne Business School Melbourne, Australia 36 18
China Medical University Taichung, Taiwan 37 -
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Berlin, Germany 38 -
Freie Universität Berlin Berlin Steglitz, Germany 39 -
Monash University Clayton, Australia 39 12
Linköping University Linköping, Sweden 41 51
McGill University Montréal, Canada 41 39
University of Nottingham Nottingham, United Kingdom 43 42
University of Groningen Groningen, Netherlands 44 -
University of Minnesota Twin Cities Minneapolis, United States 45 -
Queensland University of Technology Brisbane, Australia 46 42
The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin, Hong Kong (SAR) 46 27
University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada 48 20
University of Basel Basel, Switzerland 49 51
Australian Catholic University Sydney, Australia 50 -
Arizona State University Tempe, United States 51 51
Columbia University New York City, United States 51 32
Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis Indianapolis, United States 51 -
Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, United States 51 2
Lund University Lund, Sweden 51 49
McMaster University Hamilton, Canada 51 27
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) Taipei, Taiwan 51 51
Oregon Health & Science University Portland, United States 51 -
The Ohio State University Upper Arlington, United States 51 51
University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia 51 -
University College London (UCL) London, United Kingdom 51 -
The University of Alabama at Birmingham Birmingham, United States 51 -
University of Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands 51 -
University of Bergen Bergen, Norway 51 -
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Los Angeles, United States 51 23
University of Kentucky Lexington, United States 51 -
University of Montreal Montréal, Canada 51 51
University of Oslo Oslo, Norway 51 -
University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, United States 51 17
University of Sao Paulo São Paulo, Brazil 51 51
University of South Florida Tampa, United States 51 -
University of Turku Turku, Finland 51 41
Uppsala University Uppsala, Sweden 51 51
Utrecht University Utrecht, Netherlands 51 -
Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, United States 51 -
Aarhus University Aarhus, Denmark 76 46
Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, United States 76 51
Central South University Changsha, China 76 -
Harvard University Cambridge, United States 76 -
Kaohsiung Medical University Kaohsiung City, Taiwan 76 -
La Trobe University Melbourne, Australia 76 51
National Cheng Kung University Tainan, Taiwan 76 -
Pennsylvania State University State College, United States 76 35
Queen's University Belfast Belfast, United Kingdom 76 51
Rush University Chicago, United States 76 -
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong, Hong Kong (SAR) 76 30
University of Calgary Calgary, Canada 76 51
The University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, Hong Kong (SAR) 76 51
University of Sheffield Sheffield, United Kingdom 76 51
University at Buffalo Buffalo, United States 76 -
University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, United States 76 -
The University of Iowa Iowa City, United States 76 51
University of Leeds Leeds, United Kingdom 76 51
University of Maryland Baltimore Baltimore, United States 76 -
University of South Australia Adelaide, Australia 76 48
Ulster University Coleraine, United Kingdom 76 37
University of Virginia Charlottesville, United States 76 51
University of York York, United Kingdom 76 -
Yale University New Haven, United States 76 14
Yonsei University Seoul, South Korea 76 51
Deakin University  Burwood, Australia - 24
University of Minnesota Minneapolis, United States - 26
The University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, United Kingdom - 29
University of Adelaide Adelaide, Australia - 33
Trinity College Dublin Dublin, Ireland - 36
University of Ottawa Ottawa, Canada - 40
University of Eastern Finland Kuopio, Finland - 42
University of Colorado Denver Denver, United States - 45
University of Gothenburg Göteborg, Sweden - 46
University of Auckland Auckland, New Zealand - 50
Flinders University Adelaide, Australia - 51
George Washington University Washington, D. C., United States - 51
Massey University Palmerston North, New Zealand - 51
Michigan State University East Lansing, United States - 51
University of Galway Galway, Ireland - 51
Peking University Beijing, China - 51
Seoul National University Anyang, South Korea - 51
The University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan - 51
UNICAMP - University of Campinas Campinas, Brazil - 51
University College Cork Cork, Ireland - 51
University College Dublin Dublin, Ireland - 51
The University of Arizona Tucson, United States - 51
University of Barcelona Barcelona, Spain - 51
University of California, Davis Davis, United States - 51
University of Florida Gainesville, United States - 51
University of Glasgow Glasgow, United Kingdom - 51
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Urbana, United States - 51
University of Maryland College Park, United States - 51
University of Miami Coral Gables, United States - 51
University of Newcastle Newcastle, Australia - 51
University of Surrey Guildford, United Kingdom - 51
University of Texas at Austin Austin, United States - 51
Vanderbilt University Nashville, United States - 51
Washington University in St. Louis Saint Louis, United States - 51
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