Points of Pride

Mennonite College of Nursing

  • Top of the Class

    The online RN to B.S.N. program is ranked as one of the Best Online Nursing Programs by U.S. News & World Report.

  • Innovative Facilities

    The Nursing Simulation Lab is a 10,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art learning center. High-fidelity patient simulators, standardized patients, an electronic medical record system, and realistic medical equipment are used to provide students experience in a controlled clinical setting.

  • Leading the Way

    MCN graduates achieved a 96 percent pass rate on the national nursing licensure examination (NCLEX-RN) in 2018—better than state and national averages (88 percent).

Departments and Programs Pride

  • Nursing students come into MCN with some of the highest GPAs at the University.

  • Graduates of MCN's Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) program achieved a 100 percent pass rate on the national family nurse practitioner certification examination in 2018.

  • Our online Nursing Leadership and Management program is ranked as one of the Best Online Nursing Programs by U.S. News & World Report and earned the certification of "high quality" from Quality Matters for an online course.

  • Classes are taught by faculty who conduct cutting-edge research and who have clinical expertise. Our faculty-student ratio at clinical sites is 1-to-8.

  • The America's Promise School Project has developed unique clinical opportunities for oral health initiatives in Central Illinois elementary schools.

  • MCN offers an online post-master's Doctor of Nursing Practice (D.N.P.) program, a 34-credit-hour, part-time program designed for nurse professionals.

  • The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services awarded a $2 million grant to MCN to support diversity in the nursing workforce in 2017.

  • The Bureau of Health Workforce in the Health Resources and Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Human Services awarded a $1.4 million Advanced Nursing Education Workforce grant to MCN in 2017. This two-year grant will prepare FNP students to practice primary care in rural and underserved settings.

  • MCN's Ph.D. in nursing program offers a mix of online and on-campus courses one day per week. We are Illinois' only downstate Ph.D. in nursing program.

  • Leadership in Health Care Systems became Illinois State's first online course to earn international recognition by the nonprofit organization Quality Matters.

  • The Transcultural Nursing Experience allows students the opportunity to examine nursing care in a location that is culturally different. Locations have included Brazil, England, and Russia.

Accreditations