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Historical Highlights

1887 - The Memphis Training School for Nurses, the first nursing school in the Mid-South, was chartered.
1898 - The Memphis City Hospital opened and the Memphis Training School became the Memphis City Hospital School of Nursing.
1926 - The University of Tennessee and the Memphis General Hospital approved the University's operation of the School of Nursing. The University of Tennessee School of Nursing began in June 1927.
1950 - The newly established Baccalaureate in Nursing program admitted its first students. The diploma program graduated its last students in 1954.
1961 - The School of Nursing became a College.
1973 - The Master of Science in nursing degree program was started.
1988 - The PhD program was started.
1997-The baccalaureate degree program was temporarily suspended.
1999 - The Doctor of Nursing Science degree program was started.
August 2003 - The UTHSC College of Nursing announces partnership with Methodist Healthcare to create an educational continuum that will reinstate the baccalaureate degree program and integrate it with existing graduate programs.
2005 - Admitted traditional, second degree and RNs to the newly established BSN program
2006 - a small cohort of registered nurses was admitted to a Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) master's program
2007 - Five RNs graduated with the CNL master's degree