Graduate Nursing at TCU
Advance your education.
TCU Nursing prepares you for clinical leadership positions in a variety of health care, business, government and educational settings.
No GRE Required
Choose Your Path
Select from a Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) with a focus on nursing education, one of our 100% online Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) options, or our DNP-to-Ph.D. in Nursing bridge program focused on educating the next generation of nurses and advancing nursing research.
Upon completion, you will be able to:
- Apply interdisciplinary knowledge to improve health care systems.
- Utilize systems thinking, technology and innovation for implementing and evaluating health care delivery and outcomes.
- Analyze policies that address financing, resource management, health outcomes and equity in health care.
- Collaborate across professions and communities in leading team-based, person-centered care.
- Develop a professional identity that fosters career-long learning, well-being and resilience.
Nurse Educator
Pay it forward by educating the next generation of nurses. Learn the scholarship of teaching, discovery, application and integration in a variety of settings – 100% online.
Family Nurse Practitioner
Provide health care to people of all ages in a variety of health care settings while also maintaining a healthy work-life balance.
Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
Treat chronic, acute or critical illnesses in adults and the elderly. You’ll develop skills through doctoral-level training and prepare for a career in high-demand.
Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Become part of the solution for a national health care crisis. Learn how to provide comprehensive primary mental health care across the lifespan in a variety of settings.
Executive Nurse Leadership & Practice DNP
Prepare to become a health care leader and advanced nursing expert on your schedule through our 100% online program.
DNP-to-Ph.D. in Nursing
Build on your clinical experience and gain the skills necessary to educate the next generation of nurses and develop a strong foundation to advance research in multiple health care settings.
Post-graduate Certificates
Our post-graduate certificate programs further enhance your expertise.
Explore Certificates
Financial Aid & Tuition
A graduate nursing degree from TCU Nursing is an investment in your future, but you don’t have to make it alone.
Application Deadlines
| Program | Program Start | Application Opens | Application Deadline |
| Executive Nurse & Leadership DNP (PM-DNP) | Spring admission | May 1 | October 30 |
| BSN to DNP AGACNP | Spring admission | May 1 | October 30 |
| Fall admission | January 1 | June 1 | |
| BSN to DNP FNP | Spring admission | May 1 | October 30 |
| Fall admission | January 1 | June 1 | |
| BSN to DNP PMHNP | Spring admission | May 1 | October 30 |
| Fall admission | January 1 | June 1 | |
| MSN | Spring admission | May 1 | October 30 |
| Fall admission | January 1 | June 1 |