Study nursing at Union Adventist University!
Contact Missy, your enrollment counselor, to find out how you can enroll in Union's four-semester Nursing Program as soon as next semester. Your nursing education may start sooner than you think!
Phone: 402.486.2504 | E-mail: nursing@uau.edu
Guarantee your spot in nursing school.
Eligible students can ensure a spot in the nursing program even before completing prerequisites.
College freshmen — you won't find a guarantee better than this.
Typically you have to complete a series of prerequisite colleges courses before applying to a nursing program. But depending on your competition that year, you may not get in.
At Union, we've transformed the process. With guaranteed admission, we save your spot so that once you're done with the three prerequisite semesters at Union, you can jump right into the nursing program.
Who is eligible?
High school students enrolling in college for the first time (advanced placement courses in high school are allowed) who meet the following criteria:
- Cumulative high school GPA of 3.25 or above on a 4.00 scale
Sound amazing? If you meet the criteria, all you need to do to secure your spot is complete Union Adventist University's application. It only takes a couple of minutes.
Learn more about Union's nursing program
Union's nursing program is among the best in the nation, and we prove it each year with our consistently high NCLEX-RN first-time pass rate. Union Adventist University nursing graduates are in high demand in Nebraska and across the nation.
If you want to be part of a rewarding, growing profession that demands equal parts excellence and empathy, then nursing may be the perfect fit for you.
Why study nursing?
- Experts project that more than one million nursing jobs will be added in the U.S. over the next three years. And all that demand means great pay — $80,000 - $90,000 per year on average.
- Everybody needs nurses, so you’ll be able to find a job wherever you want.
- Make a difference in the lives of people who need it most.
Starting Fall 2025 — now only four semesters!
The Union nursing program will now only take four semesters instead of five! What does this mean?
- Students transferring into Union with all their prerequisites done will be able to finish in just four semesters.
- Traditional students will still complete in a total of four years — two years of prerequisite courses and two years in the nursing program.
What do our students have to say?
Experience Nursing at Union
Amazing teachers
Faith-based education
A mission overseas
Make friends for life
You'll get the best education and jobs.
One hundred percent of Union's nursing graduates get jobs within three months of passing the NCLEX-RN at health care organizations here in Lincoln and across the country. In fact, one health care system in Ohio guarantees a job and signing bonus just for graduating from the Nursing Program.
Why study at Union Adventist University?
- Small class sizes mean plenty of personal attention — which shows up in high NCLEX-RN first-time pass rates that are well above the national average and always among the top in Nebraska.
- Union’s Nursing Simulation Center allows you to practice in a hospital-like environment with patient volunteers and high-tech patient simulators.
- Every month, a group of Union nursing and physician assistant students hold a foot clinic at Matt Talbot Kitchen and Community Outreach, a food kitchen for Lincoln’s homeless.
- Each year, nursing students make a trip to a developing nation to run medical clinics in remote areas of the country that receive little modern medical care.
- Get great scholarships from Union — thousands each year! Learn more at uau.edu/financial
Union's nursing program prepared me for my career by teaching me that at its core, nursing is a compassionate peer-to-peer relationship. I was given the opportunity to practice and learn that through simulation labs, clinical, and observation opportunities. Union's nursing program taught me that nursing is more than what you know but how you make people feel, and to make someone feel loved and truly cared is true success.
2022 graduate and now a nurse in Lincoln, Nebraska
Top test scores!
Majors and minors
Union offers a Bachelor of Science in Nursing—a four-year degree that admits a new class every semester.
New four-semester curriculum (starting 2025-2026)
Traditional students
(beginning as freshmen at Union)
Previous five-semester curriculum (starting 2024-2025 and earlier)
Traditional students
(beginning as freshmen at Union)
Transfer students
(prerequisites completed elsewhere)
BSN completion
(nurses earning a bachelor's)
Institution-specific transfer guides
(for transfer students)
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Southeast Community College
La Sierra University
State of Nebraska licensure requirements can be found here. Learn about Nursing licensure in other states.
Nursing runs in my family, and I never really considered any other career. But when I struggled with science classes at the private college near my Oregon home, my professors suggested I try another occupation. Every nursing school in the state had a two-plus year waiting list, but a Google search led me to apply to Union in far away Nebraska. From my first interview, I could see a difference—a deep spiritual faith, a strong support system, and faculty who cared about my success. I wish I had discovered Union sooner. If I had come here my freshman year, I would have had the support and the community to succeed sooner. Now I’m proud to be a Union nurse.
a recent graduate now working in the emergency department of a hospital in Salem, Oregon
Do I have to live on campus?
Living at Union
While Union Adventist University is primarily a residential campus for students under 22 years old, we understand living on campus doesn't work for everyone in our community. That's why anyone who transfers to Union from another university to start one of our health science programs may live off campus.
Do you have other questions? Contact us at nursing@uau.edu
Your career options
Registered nurse
Provide and coordinate patient care, educate patients and the public about various health conditions, and provide advice and emotional support to patients and their family members.
Job outlook
6% (faster than average)
Median pay
$93,600
Nurse practitioner
Advanced practice nurse who coordinates patient care and may provide primary and specialty healthcare.
Job outlook
40% growth (much faster than average)
Median pay
$132,050
Nurse anesthetist
Advanced practice nurse who administers anesthetics for surgical, obstetrical and trauma care in a variety of medical settings.
Job outlook
40% growth (much faster than average)
Median pay
$132,050
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