University of California Davis (UC Davis)

Breaking traditional boundaries, developing innovative partnerships and creating nurse leaders who advance health care. These principles drive the mission of the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at University of California Davis.

Leveraging the nation’s largest grant for nursing education, leaders at the School of Nursing steadily chart a course of developing education curricula, approaches and programs aimed at keeping pace with the rapidly evolving health-care environment and preparing a new breed of health-care leaders who are skilled and nimble enough to become agents of change.

The Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at University of California Davis was established in March 2009 through a $100 million commitment from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the nation's largest grant for nursing education. The school admitted its first classes for the Master of Science — Leadership and Doctor of Philosophy Nursing Science and Health-Care Leadership degree programs in fall 2010. In 2013, the School of Nursing added the Master of Science – Nurse Practitioner and Master of Health Services — Physician Assistant Studies programs. A fifth program, which prepares new nurses — the Master’s Entry Program in Nursing, opened in summer 2016. All five programs are led by the Nursing Science and Health-Care Leadership Graduate Group, an interprofessional team of more than 55 faculty members from disciplines including nursing, medicine, health informatics, nutrition, biostatistics, pharmacy, sociology and public health.