Develop important skills needed to care for older adults and meet the growing needs of an aging population with Brenau University's online Master of Science in Applied Gerontology. This program is designed with innovation in mind and provides an interdisciplinary course of study focusing on psychology, nursing and other subjects. Learn more and apply today!

Take your nursing practice to new levels as a Family Nurse Practitioner. Brenau University’s Mary Inez Grindle School of Nursing offers you two great options to earn your Master of Science in Nursing Family Nurse Practitioner degree: Earn your MSN FNP in our full-time online 20-month program or in our part-time, hybrid three-year program. With this degree, you can advance your clinical knowledge, learn about caring for patients across their lifespans and deepen your leadership and research skills. The program includes online coursework, practicum experiences, and Saturday classes at our Norcross campus. After graduation, you will be prepared to take one of the national licensure exams from either the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) or the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) and become an FNP. In practice, you’ll be equipped to provide preventive and primary care, including developing treatment plans, ordering tests, prescribing medications, and more, depending on the state in which you work.

Occupational therapists help individuals and groups with physical, mental, or developmental challenges that interfere with everyday life. By carefully analyzing their capabilities at home, school, work, and play, occupational therapists help people recover or gain the ability to participate in life. With a variety of innovative learning options, Brenau provides graduate education programs preparing students to lead extraordinary lives and to be occupational therapists who excel in practice, inquiry, and advocacy. Brenau University offers the Master of Science Occupational Therapy (M.S.O.T.) degree program for entry-level professional preparation for occupational therapists. Students already possessing a bachelor’s degree may pursue the MSOT.

The nursing management major is a unique collaboration of the School of Nursing and The College of Business and Mass Communication and is designed to prepare the nurse to assume management roles in hospital settings. The curriculum emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration equipping the student with business and management knowledge and skills in the areas of finance, human resource management, organizational culture, project management, and management of patient aggregates. The student will have advanced preparation in nursing theory and research and the implementation of an evidence-based practice project designed to affect system changes and improve patient outcomes.