{"id":3455,"date":"2015-03-16T11:01:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T17:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/?p=3455"},"modified":"2015-03-16T11:01:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T17:01:53","slug":"belmonts-msn-program-included-on-u-s-news-2016-graduate-school-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/2015\/03\/16\/belmonts-msn-program-included-on-u-s-news-2016-graduate-school-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Belmont&#8217;s MSN program Included on U.S. News\u2019 2016 Graduate School Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Belmont University\u2019s Gordan E. Inman College of Health Sciences and Nursing was lauded last week when U.S. News and World Report released its 2016 rankings of <em>Best Graduate Schools, <\/em>a tool to help prospective graduate students better understand the graduate school landscape and identify potential programs. Belmont\u2019s Masters of Science in Nursing (MSN) ranked at No. 115, up from No. 234 in the 2011 rankings.<\/p>\n<p>The MSN ranking is based on average peer assessment score, average undergraduate GPA, acceptance rate, faculty resources, student-faculty ratio and research activities, among others.\u00a0 In addition to its recent U.S. News ranking, Belmont\u2019s MSN program has seen great success through the first time pass rate of graduates. For the 11<sup>th<\/sup> consecutive year, graduates of the MSN program for Family Nurse Practitioners have achieved a 100 percent first time pass rate on the nursing certification exam totaling 150 student graduates since 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belmont University\u2019s Gordan E. Inman College of Health Sciences and Nursing was lauded last week when U.S. News and World Report released its 2016 rankings of Best Graduate Schools, a tool to help prospective graduate students better understand the graduate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/2015\/03\/16\/belmonts-msn-program-included-on-u-s-news-2016-graduate-school-rankings\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chs","category-nursing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3456,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3455\/revisions\/3456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}