Aided by a $1.2 million gift from a local foundation, Bryan College will add a nursing program at its Dayton, Tennessee campus next year.
Beginning in fall 2021, Bryan will offer a bachelor of nursing degree that will build on the college’s existing curricula in business and healthcare management, which now prepares students for management opportunities in healthcare. The BSN program will add to current offerings in the biological, physical and exercise sciences, which Bryan already offers to prepare students for future education in careers as nurses, doctors, physical therapists and other allied health-related fields.
“For the prospective students we talk with, this is probably the most requested degree program that we currently don’t offer,” said Doug Mann, vice president for academics and provost at Bryan College who will become the college’s next president in July. “The nursing program will fit so nicely with our mission of educating students to be servants of Christ. That service to our fellow man through the health field is one that our students are very eager to engage in.”
Bryan College Photo/ Photo of Dr. Doug Mann, vice president for academics and provost at Bryan College who will become president of the college in July.Bryan has begun the process of gaining approval from its regional accrediting organization, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), to launch the BSN program the fall term of 2021 with about 20 to 25 students, Mann said. The program will grow as demand warrants in the future, Mann said.
Bryan College currently has about 650 students enrolled at its Dayton campus and a comparable number of full-time students enrolled in its online programs.