Nursing & Health Studies
Discover Where You Can Flourish
Programs that transform healthcare careers and lives.
According to U.S. News & World Report, the healthcare sector dominated the top 25 careers in 2024. In WI, the demand for healthcare professionals is particularly high with registered nurse positions expected to grow by 6% between 2022 and 2032. If you're ready to rise to the challenge, we're ready to teach you. At UW-Green Bay, we offer diverse pathways into the healthcare field, allowing you to explore various programs and find the perfect fit for your aspirations.
Undergraduate Degrees
Each program within Nursing & Health studies offers comprehensive curriculum and hands-on experiences to prepare you to improve health and help people.
Nursing
We offer several pathways to becoming a nurse depending on previous education and your professional goals. If you want to become a registered nurse, we can help you find the right path.
Health Studies
Healthcare is an intricate web of hard-working, knowledgeable people working toward a healthier society. We offer majors to help you find a career in healthcare:
- Community Health Education: go beyond hospitals and individual patients to educate your community and improve health.
- Emergency Management: Gain operational expertise, academic credentials, response protocols, critical analysis, policy setting and strategic planning.
- Health Information Management & Technology: Healthcare professionals rely on a functioning electronic healthcare record. This program is 100% online and prepares you to work in healthcare to ensure patient information is accurate, accessible and secure.
- Psychology: Explore human behavior to understand motivations and interactions.
- Social Work: Empower people with a degree that blends social justice with action.
Graduate Degrees
Boost your earning potential, enrich your expertise and broaden your career options with a master's degree.
Athletic Training
Specialize in preventing, evaluating, managing and rehabilitating conditions resulting from physical activity. You can help everyone from industrial workers to athletes return to work and play.
Health & Wellness Management
Expand your knowledge of corporate wellness and health promotion issues and prepare for a higher-level leadership position. Gain hands-on experience with a capstone project. Offered with Wisconsin Online Collaboratives.
Nursing Leadership & Management
Take nursing to the next level with an MSN that develops your leadership and management skills. This online program provides flexibility around your working schedule. Prepare for the next step in your nursing career.
Nutrition & Integrated Health
Prepare to address patient, community health and food system challenges, helping individuals and communities to maintain and reclaim their health. Graduate degree and certificate available.
Sport, Exercise & Performance Psychology
Unlock optimum potential. Help athletes, actors, musicians and others master psychological skills to achieve the perfect balance of brain and body.
Social Work
Make a difference in our fast-growing, progressive program. Designed for graduate students seeking a career in the human service with special emphasis on multicultural practice, social justice, leadership and advocacy.
Certificates
Certificates can be a great way to advance your nursing or health career with in a shorter time frame and smaller financial commitment than a degree program.
Undergraduate
Boost your degree and broaden your expertise with an undergraduate certificate.
- Emergency Management: face complex challenges, requiring skills in operations, response, analysis, policy, and strategy.
- Management in Health Systems Certificate: further your career or transition into healthcare.
- Health Information Management & Technology: protect and organize people's private information with this certificate if you already have a bachelor's degree.
Graduate
A graduate certificate represents your expert knowledge and qualifies you for leadership roles.
- Foundations in Health & Wellness: Learn how to apply a holistic approach to health and wellness issues.
- Improving Health with Data & Policy: Learn how to identify and address health issues by using data to make informed decisions.
- Leadership in Health & Wellness: Learn how to engage and lead a team of wellness professionals in a variety of settings.
- Nursing Leadership & Management Certificate: gain leverage to become a leader in healthcare as a BSN-level nurse.
- Nutrition & Integrated Health: Designed for nutrition and health professionals looking to understand more comprehensively how diet and other factors can influence health.
- School Social Work: Get licensed with the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction to work in a K-12 school.
- Sustainability & Wellbeing Certificate: learn how to integrate more sustainable practices for organizations to help improve community help.
Noncredit
Wherever you are in your career journey, a noncredit certificate delivers direct relevance to your profession:
- Community Access & Navigation: A pilot program in Sheboygan County will train health and human service professionals to overcome barriers to accessing needed services.
- Geriatric Healthcare Certificate: as our population ages, the workforce will need more people who know how to manage age-friendly care.
- Management in Health Systems: Expand your responsibilities with technology and coordination skills that do not involve direct patient care.
- Pediatric Mental Health: help toddlers and children learn social and coping skills to address mental health concerns.
More to Explore
UW-Green Bay offers a wide range of majors that lead to a career in healthcare. If you want to explore more options, take a look at our emphases within Human Biology, one of our most popular majors.
Meet a
Phoenix
"Although I was working 50 to 60 hours a week, I wanted to go back to school full time, so I enrolled in the University of Wisconsin HIMT program. I did this because I thought, you know what—I could be the change in this scenario, and I wanted to help patients have a better future... the sky’s the limit once you get through the programs. And what you will learn, who you will learn it from, and who you will learn it with, will leave a lasting impact on your life and your career.”
Justin Rathkamp '17
Supervisory Program Specialist at U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Want to Know More?
As one the program advisors for our nursing programs here at UW-Green Bay, Nicole Micolichek can help answer any questions you have, from admissions to careers to practicums.