If you aspire to nursing leadership in today’s complex healthcare landscape, the right preparation across business and nursing is key. IWU’s MSN MBA dual degree program offers the advanced theory and skills you need to take your place in an executive position within a health system. Cultivate your leadership approach 100% online while you build on your current nursing and business expertise so you can become the nursing leader you want to see in your community.
Why Pursue My MSN MBA Dual Degree Online at IWU?
From evidence-based practice curriculum to offering dual MSN MBA programs fully online, the IWU School of Nursing has been at the forefront of healthcare education for more than 40 years. Today, we are proud to offer a faculty of industry experts, a faith perspective for hope and healing, and the support you need to pursue better outcomes for your primary care career and your patients. Our Christian faculty teach from the same biblical worldview valued on our campus, so that students can implement these principles in a fulfilling nursing leadership career. One more thing: your tuition rates are locked in the moment you start. You will experience no tuition hikes for the duration of your program.
What Will I Learn in a Dual MSN MBA Program?
This dual degree program explores many aspects of health system operational oversight—from financial reporting and human resource management to decision making and business communication and more. Enhance business leadership coursework through focuses within advanced nursing theory and practice, including epidemiology, advanced pharmacology, and pathophysiology. Apply class learnings to real-world settings through a Nursing Leadership Capstone Practicum.
What Makes IWU Different?
IWU has provided on-campus education for more than 100 years.
Faith-integrated curriculum and a commitment to changing the world.
Center for Student Success for counseling, tutoring, and more!
Financial aid is available in the form of grants, loans, scholarships, veterans’ benefits, and employer reimbursement.
Coursework for your MSN MBA Dual degree program covers how to:
CRITERIA FOR REGULAR ADMISSION
B.S.N. or B.S. degree with a major in nursing from a college or university accredited by an accrediting agency recognized by both the U.S. Department of Education (ED) and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA). Registered Nurse applicants who have a non-nursing bachelor's degree and a minimum of ten years of recent experience in nursing practice may also be considered for admission by Portfolio. These candidates may submit a Portfolio which includes a current CV/resume, including evidence of accomplishments in nursing based on The Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice.
An undergraduate grade-point average of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale from the baccalaureate degree-granting institution at which at least a minimum of 30 hours was completed.
MSN - Health Systems Leadership/MBA degree program – GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale required. Or
Graduate grade-point average of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale from a college or university accredited by an accrediting agency recognized by both the U.S. Department of Education (ED) and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) where at least 9 credits were completed.
CRITERIA FOR CONDITIONAL ADMISSION
Applicants who do not meet the GPA listed in the criteria for regular admission and have at least a 2.75 undergraduate GPA may be conditionally admitted and allowed to take 9 credit hours of masters nursing courses to establish a graduate GPA.
Students who have earned a 3.0 GPA by the completion of 9 credit hours in masters nursing courses, will meet the criteria for regular admission.
An unsatisfactory grade (C- or lower in any GNUR course) while conditionally admitted will result in administrative withdrawal from the program and denial of regular admission.
Students who do not earn a 3.0 GPA by the completion of 9 credit hours in masters nursing courses will be denied regular admission.
Practice is an essential component of the graduate nursing program. Practicum courses offer students the opportunity to develop and integrate the knowledge and skills necessary for evidence-based advanced practice. If required by the facility, cost for placement is the responsibility of the student.
NOTE: Students must meet all practicum agency requirements.
Indiana Wesleyan University is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission (HLC), www.hlcommission.org, 312-263-0456. Other accreditations and associations of Indiana Wesleyan University are available at www.indwes.edu/about/iwu-profile/accreditation.
The master's degree programs in nursing at Indiana Wesleyan University are accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, (https://www.aacnnursing.org/CCNE). IWU is a member of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN).
