Connell School of Nursing

Your gift to Dean’s Innovation Fund for the Connell School of Nursing has a wide-ranging impact.

Dean Katherine Gregory's exciting vision for the future of the Connell School: “Nursing is a team sport. My hope for the Connell School is that—by collaborating with one another and our colleagues across campus and throughout Boston—we will have a positive impact on human health.”

A gift to the Dean’s Innovation Fund has ripple effects throughout the School, encouraging new initiatives, funding faculty and student research, and supporting innovative collaborations on campus and beyond. Your gift will help realize the dean’s vision of a school that prepares accomplished nurses to be compassionate leaders with the expertise and proficiency needed to transform health care.

💛 For 2023, U.S. News and World Report ranks the Connell School’s undergraduate nursing program as #10 in the country.

💛 For 2023, U.S. News and World Report ranks the Connell School’s graduate nursing program as #1 in Massachusetts.

💛 The Connell School serves 420 undergraduate students and 297 graduate students.

💛 Roughly 37% of Connell School undergraduate students identify as AHANA and 20% are first-generation college students.

💛 The School's international programs give students the chance to gain a greater understanding of global issues and the diversity of health care needs. Locations include the Dominican Republic, Belize, Chile, Australia, and France.

The world needs BC to be the best university it can be, but what does BC need you to be? You can answer that question by making a gift of any size for BC Giving Day from Wednesday, March 20 through Thursday, March 21.