Milwaukee County offers nursing programs at eight different institutions, including Alverno College; Cardinal Stritch University; Columbia College of Nursing; Marquette University; Milwaukee Area Technical College; and Milwaukee School of Engineering, School of Nursing. The University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, the state's largest nursing program, is one of three nursing schools in Wisconsin to offer a full range of degree types (BSN, MSN, PhD and DNP) and is has more than 1,500 undergraduate and graduate students as of January 2011.
Excluding Milwaukee County, southern Wisconsin still provides prospective students with a considerable variety of nursing programs. The region offers six different nursing schools located across five counties: Blackhawk Technical College; Concordia University, Wisconsin; Edgewood College; Gateway Technical College; Madison Area Technical College; and Southwest Wisconsin Technical College. Edgewood College's School of Nursing requires prospective undergraduate students to have at least a 2.75 GPA in all required math and science courses and offers a MSN degree in nursing administration and nursing education.
Eastern Wisconsin has six different nursing programs across Brown, Fon Du Lac, Manitowoc and Winnebago counties. The Bellin College of Nursing and Northeast Wisconsin Technical College are two options in the Green Bay area. The School of Nursing at Marian University offers BSN and MSN degrees in "Nurse Educator" or "Adult Nurse Practitioner" programs. The University of Wisconsin's Department of Nursing has a campus in Oshkosh and another option includes the Lakeshore Technical College in Cleveland, Wisconsin.
The central and western regions of Wisconsin combine to offer prospective students with five programs across five towns and cities: Chippewa Valley Technical College in Eau Claire; the Francisan Skemp Healthcare School of Anesthesia in La Crosse; Mid-State Technical College in Wisconsin Rapids; Nicolet College in Rhinelander; and North Central Technical College in Wausau. Nicolet College's nursing program provides students with clinical experience in the areas of acute/long-term care, home care, hospice and corrections.