Graduate-Success

College Of Nursing & Health Professions

The College of Nursing and Health Professions prepares professionals who will transform today’s health and health care systems in collaborative teams — whether you pursue a path as a nurse, physician assistant, public health expert, health care leader, nurse educator, researcher, advanced nurse provider, health educator, or occupational therapist. Through your Valpo preparation, you will immediately distinguish yourself as second-to-none in all arenas of health and health care.

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96.5%
Career Outcome Rate
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$66,554
Average Starting Salary

Outcomes Breakdown

Outcomes Breakdown Graphic

Featured Employers

  • Comer Children’s Hospital
  • Community Healthcare System
  • Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital
  • Lakeshore Bone & Joint Institute 
  • Northwestern Medicine
  • St. Joseph Regional Medical Center 
  • St. Louis Children’s Hospital 
  • St. Mary Medical Center 

The aspects of the health science program I enjoyed the most were the opportunities to grow myself as a person and become a better health professional in the process. I am always looking for ways to improve myself. Even if an opportunity seems indirectly related to my future goals, I make the most of it.

Joseph “Joey” Hess III ’20
Health Science

Former Valpo Student-Athletes Combat COVID-19 as Frontline Workers

In the months since the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States, former Valparaiso University student-athletes working in the medical field across the country have gone beyond the expected in their efforts to combat the virus and treat patients in need of their care…
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Trading the Classroom for the Front Lines
In 2020, Jessica Glinski ’22 DNP answered the call to take a leave of absence from the doctor of nursing practice (DNP) program at Valparaiso University to serve on the front lines of the pandemic with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)…
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