Why Give?
Yale University School of Nursing has a proud legacy of leadership and a mission that is visionary: better health care for all people. Our commitment to excellence is reflective in the achievements of our alumnae/i who stand out among their peers creating new models of care, shaping health care policy and leading new generations of nurses in their pursuit of excellence in nursing education, scholarship and practice.
We do this by:
- Maintaining a small enrollment, under 300 students, with a student-faculty ratio of 5:1
- Recruiting students of uncommon ability and dedication, with a strong commitment to social justice and to improving the health and well-being of the world's citizens
- Retaining faculty renowned for their clinical skill and scholarship
- Integrating an interdisciplinary approach to teaching and collaborating with our colleagues from around the Yale community including Yale College, Yale School of Medicine, and Yale School of Public Health and Epidemiology
In the pursuit of excellence, which defines a Yale education, Yale University School of Nursing holds to the highest standards and maintains a leadership position in preparing advanced practice nurses to lead the profession into the future.
Excellence comes at a price and the need is now.
YSN maintains a need-blind admission policy. We seek to admit the most qualified candidates regardless of their financial ability. As a result, we need to increase our financial aid opportunities to continue to recruit and retain the best students entering nursing. Currently, many of our students graduate from Yale with a debt burden of up to $100,000 into a profession whose compensation is unequal to the debt they assume for their education. This is unacceptable and we are committed to realizing our goal to significantly reduce the debt burden of qualified students who seek a Yale nursing education.
