Online Nurse Executive Master's Degree Program

The program can be completed in less than two years.

You can access the MSN Nurse Executive and Nurse Educator student handbook online.

View information on the MSN application process

Please see the Admissions Requirements page.

Schools or third-party transcript services can send your official electronic transcripts to grad@pnw.edu.

The mailing address for transcripts is:

College of Nursing
Purdue University Northwest
2200 169th Street
Hammond, IN 46323-2094
Attention: Dell Dumas
Graduate Program Academic Advisor

For more questions about transcripts, visit our general nursing FAQs page.

You can apply here: Online MSN Application

Campus: Purdue University Northwest
Major: Nursing
Degree Objective: Master of Science in Nursing
Course Delivery: Distance (online or off-campus location)

A maximum of 9 semester hours or equivalent of graduate credit may be used as transfer credit from another university. To be accepted, courses must fulfill curriculum requirements and must have been taken at a university that has national nursing accreditation. Additionally, a grade equivalent to 3.0 (on a 4-point scale) or higher must be present for any transfer course.

All specialty and advanced core courses, including NUR 51000: Research and Evidence-Based Nursing, must be taken at PNW. A request for an exception to this policy will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Other core courses will be evaluated for equivalency and transferability. You will need to submit the syllabi for all courses you wish to have considered for transfer credit by the application deadline date.

If you have questions about transfer credits or outstanding program requirements that you will need to fulfill, please direct those questions to your assigned PNW academic advisor.

This review happens during the admissions process. For requests outside the admissions period, you should work directly with an advisor.

In addition to the Introductory Statistics course, the core class that could be considered is Healthcare Organization, Policy, and Economics. With regards to seeking transfers for core courses, if you took a theory course or ethics course elsewhere, you would still need to take the PNW theory/ethics course because your course would not have the same ethics component. If you took both the theory and ethics classes separately, PNW would consider that for transferability.

Nurse Executive courses that can be considered include: Human Resource Management and Healthcare Financial Management.

Nurse Educator courses that can be considered include: Pathophysiologic Concepts and Pharmacologic Interventions for Nurse Educators or separate graduate-level pathophysiology and pharmacology classes, and Advanced Health Assessment for Nurse Educators.

You could be eligible for a $1,000 graduate scholarship if you are employed by one of the Purdue University Northwest partner hospitals located in Indiana, Illinois or Wisconsin. The scholarship applies only to nursing courses and is not retroactive.

If you are a Purdue alumnus, you are eligible for a $1,000 graduate scholarship if you previously completed the PNW RN-to-BSN.

You can only be eligible for one scholarship.

Self-pay, financial aid for those who qualify, and tuition assistance/reimbursement for those who qualify. Tuition is due the Friday before each term starts.

If you wish to transfer from one online concentration (e.g., Nurse Executive) to another online concentration (e.g., Nurse Educator) or vice versa, the process consists of submitting a written request to the graduate program advisor. The advisor will work with the Associate Dean of Graduate Studies to determine whether the request will be granted. The only eligibility requirement is that you be in good academic standing.

You can complete your practicum at any approved facility. You can work with a faculty member for guidance.

Yes, some of the practicum can be completed remotely.

The practicum is a total of 135 hours. You can complete this in one 7-week term or two.

You can expect to dedicate approximately 20 hours per week per class to your studies, readings and assignments.

You are responsible for the completion of all required work, in each course in which you have enrolled, by the time of the last scheduled meeting of the class, unless your assignment to the course has been properly withdrawn. You will receive from your instructors a grade in each course for which you are enrolled at the close of the session. This grade shall indicate your achievement with respect to the objectives of the course.

You can take breaks throughout your program, but you will want to consult with your Academic Advisor to be sure your next class is being offered during the term you return. If you are out for over a year, you will need to reapply to the program.