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Galen Knows Nursing
100% Resources Devoted to Nursing Preparing confident nursing graduates is what we do.
47,000+ Graduates 30+ years educating more than 47,000 Galen graduates.
Prepared to Practice Our students have extensive clinical experiences.
Hands-on Learning Clinical and simulation labs offer hands-on, life-like experiences.
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With multiple term starts, you can start as soon as you are ready. Fill out the form today (or call us) so our enrollment team can help you be ready for your best start date.
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In modern nursing education, there’s a path forward for you. We know what it takes to succeed in the profession—and how to support you to graduation.
Do you want to go home knowing you made a difference that day? Do you want a career with stability, longevity, and variety?
Nurses work in hospitals, doctor’s offices, clinics, schools, or anywhere that needs nurses. Focus on emergency medicine, surgery, lab work, or one of dozens of other specialties. The roles and responsibilities differ, and yet, one constant remains — you’ll be helping people.
Amazing! Strong demand means you have options.
Nursing includes hundreds of career paths and options. Start as a floor nurse, become a shift manager. Move from a direct care role to a discharge planner. Shift to working in home health or assisted living.
The world needs nurses—the world needs you. Find your first or next role in the wide world of nursing through Galen.
Here’s how it breaks down:
Pre-Licensure
- Practical Nurse (PN) (Vocational Nurse in CA & TX)
- 1-year, full-time
- 21 months, part-time
- LPN/LVN to ADN Bridge
- 18 months full-time
- Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN)
- 2 years full-time
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)
- 3 years full-time
Post Licensure
- Online RN to BSN
- 12-16 months Full-Time
- Online Master of Science in Nursing (MSN)
- 2 years (36 credit hours, offered in 8-week modules)
- Online Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)
- 2 years (37 semester credits)
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Accreditation
Accreditation means an outside agency has reviewed the education we offer and decided it meets their standards. Review all our accreditations.
Galen College of Nursing (Galen) is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) to award associate, baccalaureate, master’s, and doctorate degrees. Galen also may offer credentials such as certificates and diplomas at approved degree levels. Questions about the accreditation of Galen may be directed in writing to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges at 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, GA 30033-4097, by calling (404) 679-4500, or by using information available on SACSCOC’s website.
Galen consists of a Main Campus located in Kentucky and off-campus instructional sites in Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia. Branch campus accreditation is dependent upon the continued accreditation of the Main Campus.
The Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 (HEOA) requires that postsecondary institutions participating in federal student aid programs make certain disclosures to enrolled and prospective students, parents, employees, and the public. Galen makes this information available to you online at Consumer Disclosures.