Nursing, PhD (Boston)
Graduatemajor2027 catalogHealth SciencesBoston58 semester hours totalverified parse
Official catalog page for this program
Required Core
- NRSG 7104 — Foundations in Nursing Research
- NRSG 7700 — The Science of Nursing
- NRSG 7705 — Theoretical and Conceptual Foundations in Nursing Science
- NRSG 7715 — Measurement in Clinical Research
- NRSG 7750 — Healthcare of Urban Populations
Statistics
- NRSG 5121 — Epidemiology and Population Health
- PHTH 5210 — Biostatistics in Public Health
- PHTH 6210 — Applied Regression Analysis
Research
- NRSG 7709 — Qualitative Research Methods
- NRSG 7712 — Quantitative Research Methods
- NRSG 7755 — Intervention Research: Development, Implementation, and Evaluation
- NRSG 7770 — Research Colloquium
From the catalog
Complete the following (repeatable) course twice:
- NRSG 9984 — Research
Cognate Courses
6 semester hours.
From the catalog
Complete two cognate courses in consultation with your faculty advisor. Cognates are graduate-level courses that are taken outside of nursing. These courses should provide depth and breadth to the student's dissertation research.
Electives
6 semester hours.
From the catalog
Complete two elective courses in consultation with your faculty advisor. Electives may be taken in nursing or in an area related to the student's dissertation research, including appropriate methodology and statistics courses.
Dissertation
GPA requirements
- 58 total semester hours required Minimum 3.000 GPA required
Substitutions
Stated by the catalog on this program's requirements:
- Cognates are graduate-level courses that are taken outside of nursing and should provide depth and breadth to the student’s area of interest.
Parsed from the catalog by NU Map; the structured machine copy is in this college's JSON for the 2027 catalog, under nursing-phd-boston, and the official page is the authority.