UofM's MSN in Nursing Education, from core courses to residency

Full-time and part-time plans, and where the first immersion lands

UofM publishes Nursing Education plans for both paces and admits students in fall and spring. The full-time plan covers four terms. Part-time study stretches to five terms when you begin in fall, or six when you begin in spring.

In every version, Immersion 1 is a spring course. Begin in fall and NURS 7207 arrives in your second term, only a few months after your first online class; begin in spring and it waits until term four. The residency, NURS 7209, closes the plan, because LCON wants every core and specialty course finished before the residency term and allows no repeats during it.

One scheduling puzzle is worth raising early. The catalog entry for NURS 7207 expects the education courses without a practicum to be done first, yet the published plans schedule it ahead of some of them. The first clinical course guide sets this timing next to UofM's other programs, and your advisor can say which sequence governs your cohort.

Getting in: GPA, license and the RN-to-MSN route

Direct admission rests on four items: an undergraduate GPA of at least 3.0, NCLEX-RN success, a three-credit undergraduate statistics course and a professional resume or CV that shows you practice clinically now or did so recently. With a GPA of 2.75 to 2.99, the door is two graduate courses taken before admission, and B grades or better in both secure a place.

Registered nurses without a BSN can enter through RN to MSN, an admission pathway rather than a separate program. It asks for three undergraduate courses taken at LCON, NURS 3007, NURS 4108 and NURS 4111, each passed with a C or better, before the MSN application. No BSN is awarded along the way. UofM's RN-to-MSN page lists three concentrations for the route, Nursing Education among them, while its other pages list all five.

The application deadlines are July 1 for a fall start and December 1 for a spring start. Keep your RN license unrestricted, whether it was issued by Tennessee or by the approved state that hosts your immersions. California sits outside LCON's distance education authorization. UofM's documents disagree on which other states qualify, and the state authorization page lays out that conflict.

Why UofM Nursing Education students choose us

We are specialists in UofM's clinical process, and this concentration rewards planning both immersions as a pair. Our planning begins with your plan of study rather than the week before the term, and it follows the rules above from the first conversation.

• Two sites chosen together, so the residency never lands at your Immersion 1 site.
• Nurse educators near your home, from academic nursing faculty to hospital clinical educators, matched to what your course faculty expect.
• Each preceptor's license, credentials and teaching role set out the way the preceptor agreement form asks, with the site's details beside them.
• Your Complio and myClinicalExchange items checked against each immersion term, the 30-day drug screen window included.
• If a preceptor withdraws, a new search starts that day, aimed at a site you have not used.

Approval of each educator preceptor and site stays with UofM, where clinical faculty and the partnerships office make the call. Our job is to put a file in front of them that is finished, accurate and in line with LCON policy at the first review. Use the form below to share your start term, or see how our process runs.