Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing

Loyola University Chicago Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing (Niehoff) offers top-rated master's and doctoral degree programs at the Maywood campus that educate professional nurses for advanced practice roles and prepare nurse leaders for 21st century health-care challenges.

Loyola's School of Nursing admitted its first class in 1935, making it the oldest baccalaureate program in Illinois. The school has been fully accredited since its inception. In 1964, the first master’s degree in the school was started, and, in 1988, the first doctoral class was admitted. The graduate program in nursing is ranked in the top 8 percent of accredited schools nationally.

Niehoff offers undergraduate and graduate nursing and dietetics programs. At the undergraduate level, the following degrees are offered: the baccalaureate degree in nursing (BSN); the accelerated BSN (ABSN), for those with a previous non-nursing college degree; and the RN-BSN or degree completion for nurses with the diploma or associate of arts degree in nursing. The master’s degree in nursing (MSN) awarded by the school, offers majors in primary and tertiary practitioner specialties, clinical nurse specialist preparation, nursing and health care administration, informatics and outcome performance management. Niehoff also offers a master of science in dietetics. Finally, the Graduate School, in collaboration with Niehoff, awards the doctor of philosophy degree with a focus in nursing.