BECOME A VOL NURSE
Join a community of bold, compassionate leaders shaping the future of health care. As a Vol Nurse, you’ll gain hands-on experience, learn from expert faculty, and make an impact from your first day on campus to your first day on the job.
Explore our programs and pathways
Undergraduate
Begin your journey to becoming a Volunteer nurse through our top-ranked BSN programs.
Graduate
Advance your career with DNP and PhD programs designed for leaders in teaching, scholarship, and research.
Online
Earn your degree on your schedule with flexible, high-quality online nursing programs.
Certificates
Expand your expertise and specialize with post-graduate nursing certificates.
My best career decision was committing to pursue an education as a vol nurse.
Jiro Greenberg-Oster
Senior
BSN Program
Cutting Edge Research
Research and scholarship by faculty in the College of Nursing focuses on cutting-edge design and methodologies that promote health equity, population wellness, quality of life and health policy. Within an interconnected process that flows between research, discovery, translation and evidence, the faculty value innovation, team science, community engagement and understanding social drivers of health.
Student Experience
For more than 50 years, we’ve prepared nurses to meet the challenges of an ever-changing health care landscape. But earning your degree is about more than the courses you complete. It’s about developing the knowledge, compassion, and confidence to make a lasting impact on patients, families, and communities.
State-of-the-Art Simulation Labs
The UT Medical Nursing Building is home to state-of-the-art simulation and skills labs that provide students with immersive, hands-on learning experiences. Designed to mirror real-world health care environments, these innovative spaces allow students to develop clinical judgment, strengthen technical skills, and build confidence before caring for patients. Through high-fidelity simulation, standardized patient encounters, and interdisciplinary learning opportunities, the College of Nursing prepares future nurses to deliver safe, compassionate, and evidence-based care in an increasingly complex healthcare landscape.
UT College of Nursing provides the infrastructure—such as the new Groer Family VolBiome Lab—resources, and interdisciplinary partnerships that young scientists need to thrive, while giving students meaningful opportunities to participate in research that advances nursing science and strengthens evidence-based nursing practice.
Ji Youn yoo
Assistant Professor
Nursing by the Numbers
#1
undergraduate program in the state of Tennessee
94%
first time licensure and specialty certification pass rate
7.9M
funded research portfolio, FY25
100%
BSN Scholars first time NCLEX pass rate
#3
in the nation for highest NCLEX pass rates
200+
research and community based partnerships
