College of Nursing

With a mission to educate equity- and justice-focused health care leaders, Seattle University nursing and diagnostic ultrasound programs prepare you for a successful and impactful career in health care.

Become a Health Care Professional that Practices & Advocates with a Social Justice Approach to Achieve Health for All

Since its establishment in 1935, Seattle University College of Nursing has prepared highly regarded and compassionate health care professionals who make a difference in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

Our graduates emerge as leaders in their profession, committed to teamwork, providing service to society and contributing to safe, high quality and accessible health care across the globe.

Health Care with a Compassionate & Social Justice Mindset

The faculty and staff of the College of Nursing are committed to fostering a dynamic learning environment, promoting justice for health equity, engaging in innovative and integrative scholarship, utilizing effective teaching strategies and supporting leadership formation among our students.

We embrace diversity and promote belonging to help you examine and endeavor to center the perspective and voice of the communities served by health care. Students learn to work in partnership and solidarity with patients and populations to co-create positive health care experiences.

Along with essential clinical and professional skills, you’ll learn how to practice in ways that value inclusivity and equity to counter injustices that contribute disparities in injury, illness, disease and death locally and globally.

Caring & Academically Excellent Nursing and Ultrasound Programs

As part of the Jesuit and Catholic tradition of educating the whole person, we live our values of compassion, respect and equity in the classroom.

With our student-centered classes and committed educators, we’ll see and understand you as a full human being with intersecting identities and varied lived experiences as well as unique academic, physical, spiritual and emotional needs.

You’ll learn in an academically challenging yet caring and compassionate environment where you’re encouraged to bring your full self to our learning settings.

CCNE Accredited

The baccalaureate degree program in nursing/Doctor of Nursing Practice program and post-graduate APRN certificate program at Seattle University are accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education.