University of illinois springfield

Our campus provides easy access to all that Springfield has to offer, from historic landmarks to inspiring artwork, outdoor recreation to diverse communities. Springfield has something for everyone: Hike our beautiful green spaces, bike our trails, experience history up close at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, and discover so much more.

We are growing! Copy link Like the best inventions, our Springfield campus was born to address a specific issue: the need for more and better-prepared nurses in the cities, small towns and rural communities of Central and Southern Illinois. It was natural that the highly ranked UIC College of Nursing—already embedded in four other Illinois cities beyond Chicago—would be part of that solution. It was also natural that we would partner with our sister campus, the University of Illinois Springfield, and Memorial Health System, with its two Magnet-designated hospitals. The result: A campus that produces critically thinking RNs and APRNs, educated in the best settings, who are prepared to deliver top-quality care where it’s needed most. A new initiative known as the UIS-UIC GPPA Program is now allowing any student who is interested in pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree to apply to UIS as a freshman and simultaneously apply to the GPPA program. If accepted in both, the student would be guaranteed admission to the UIC College of Nursing BSN program on the Springfield campus when they achieve junior-level standing. Meet the campus director Copy link Sara McPherson PhD, RN, CNE Sara McPherson has been faculty in the McPherson’s program of research and scholarship are centered on nursing education, and her research focuses on preparing faculty, recruitment and retention strategies. McPherson is published for her work on nursing faculty preparation and needs. She ...