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Master of Science in Nursing—Direct Entry
Northeastern University's Master of Science in Nursing—Direct Entry creates a straightforward path for you to follow and earn your nursing master’s degree.
No matter your background or previous experience, our comprehensive program supports and guides you as you earn your Bachelor of Science in Nursing, become a licensed registered nurse, and then earn your Master of Science in Nursing.
One application allows you to start your journey, and every step of the way, you’ll have the full support of Northeastern’s Bouvé College of Health Sciences behind you, including preparation for national certification exams and financial aid opportunities.
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Five concentrations to choose from
When you begin your MS in Nursing, you may choose a specialization to help focus your education:
- Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
- Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner
- Family Primary Care Nurse Practitioner
- Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner
- Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
The Northeastern advantage
For more than 125 years, Northeastern has been a world leader in experience-driven education. As you learn in the classroom, you can sharpen your new skills and insights through real-world opportunities with our employer partners. This allows you to gain valuable resumé-building skills while expanding your network.
About Northeastern
Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experiential lifelong learning. Our approach of integrating real-world experience with education, research, and innovation empowers our students, faculty, alumni, and partners to create worldwide impact.
Our global university system provides our community and academic, government, and industry partners with unique opportunities to think locally and act globally. The system—which includes 13 campuses across the U.S., U.K., and Canada, 320,000-plus alumni, and more than 3,800 partners worldwide—serves as a platform for scaling ideas, talent, and solutions.
Northeastern’s personalized, experiential undergraduate and graduate programs lead to degrees through the doctorate in 10 colleges and schools across our campuses. Learning emphasizes the intersection of data, technology, and human literacies, uniquely preparing graduates for careers of the future and lives of fulfillment and accomplishment.
Our research enterprise, with an R1 Carnegie classification, is solutions oriented and spans the world. Our faculty scholars and students work in teams that cross not just disciplines, but also sectors—aligned around solving today’s highly interconnected global challenges and focused on transformative impact for humankind.