College of Health Professions offers a master's track in Nursing Education with an adult health clinical specialty option. A graduate certificate program in Nursing Education is also available.

The Colleges of Health Professions and Engineering & Science now offer a five-year Physician Assistant Program option for traditional undergraduate students; the program enables students to complete both a bachelor's and a master's degree in the five-year period.

Over 150 students are enrolled in the prelicensure program in nursing for students in Western Michigan, offered in collaboration with the McAuley School of Nursing, Aquinas College and St. Mary Health Care in Grand Rapids.

The McAuley Health Center, which is staffed by Nursing faculty and assisted by graduate and undergraduate nursing students, serves underserved and uninsured community members on Detroit's eastside.

Licensure and certification rates for the College of Health Professions' clinically based programs reflect a strong record for the past academic year:

• Nurse Anesthesia, 93%
• Physician Assistant, 97%
• Family Nurse Practitioner, 83.3%
• Undergraduate Nursing, 83.5%

McAuley School of Nursing is a leader in the state and region in delivering parish nursing continuing education.

UDM offers the only graduate program in Health Systems Management in the Detroit area. The program prepares nurses to manage systems of care more effectively to improve patient outcomes through high-quality and cost-effective health care services.

100% of nursing graduates have jobs upon graduation and are highly sought after by multiple health systems.

Through partnerships with local health care systems, the McAuley School of Nursing provides onsite BSN Degree Completion programs at 19 metro Detroit hospitals for approximately 400 nurses.