Four Masters in Nursing Program Tracks

Russell Sage’s M.S. in Nursing offers the ultimate flexibility for your career goals with four NP tracks:

  • Reduced tuition: We offer a 10% tuition discount for health care partners who join the Workforce Development Partnership. Due to our multi-pronged partnership with Albany Med Health System to address a critical workforce need, Albany Medical Center employees receive a 30% tuition discount on this program.
  • Online coursework: Our program is almost entirely online, with five visits to campus for an advanced health assessment course, and in-person clinicals that can be arranged at a location convenient to you thanks to our vast clinical partnerships.
  • Experiences that Matter: Our clinical placements with nationally certified practitioners provide more in-depth clinical exposure to the advanced role of the nurse practitioner. And our program enhances your research skills, which will open up opportunities to present at professional conferences and integrate research in your evidence-based clinical practice.
  • Opportunities for service: Our nurse practitioner students participate in service activities organized by the Nursing department, like a recent trip to provide health care in the Dominican Republic and conducting physicals locally for the homeless population.
  • Nursing on another level: Our faculty, who include nationally certified, doctorally prepared Nurse Practitioners and researchers, focus on the key concepts of clinical judgment; communication; compassionate care; diversity, equity, and inclusion; ethics; evidence-based practice; health policy; and social determinants of health.
  • Name recognition: You will graduate with a Russell Sage degree, which is meaningful given our 100-year history in nursing and health care education.

Already a Nurse Practitioner? looking to expand your scope of practice?

We also offer a post-master’s certificate program for NPs who want another certification (For example, a FNP might return for a Psych NP certificate). We offer post-master’s certificates in these four areas:

Are you an RN with an associate degree in nursing but a bachelor’s in another field?

We offer a bridge program for students like you that allows you direct entry to our nursing master’s program.

Course Requirements

Credits and Completion

Our master’s in Nursing programs range from 42 to 48 credits and can be completed full time in approximately two years, or part time. Post-master’s certificates are determined based on previous graduate coursework and can also be completed on a full- or part-time basis.

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Graduate Nursing Handbook 2023-2024

Graduate Nursing Program Objectives

The Nursing department strives to provide graduate Nursing programs in an environment that emphasizes the development of individuals as professional nurses with a vision of their own power and a clear sense of self and their professional role.

Accreditation

The Baccalaureate degree program in nursing/Master’s degree program in nursing/and/or post-graduate APRN certificate program at Russell Sage College is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education. Visit CCNE Accreditation.

All nursing programs are registered with the New York State Education Department.

Upcoming Graduate Visit Events

Learn about the exciting opportunities Russell Sage College has to offer with a campus visit, open house, or virtual program informations session.

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Easily Apply

Apply by November 1 or March 1 and start in the spring or fall semesters.

Application Requirements

  • Applicants must be an RN with an unencumbered license in New York state
  • Have a 3.0 undergraduate GPA
  • A one- to two-page career goals essay
  • Official undergraduate transcripts from all post-secondary institutions attended
  • Two letters of recommendation (from a nurse manager, another nurse practitioner, or a former professor)
  • A current resume
  • Meet RSC’s graduate admission requirements.
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Personal advising, experienced faculty

Our nursing master’s comes with a deep, Russell Sage-level of support from an assigned faculty advisor who works with you to ensure your success. All our NP faculty are nationally-certified and include DNPs or doctorally-prepared NPs (or faculty who are enrolled in doctoral education).

Glenda Kelman, Russell Sage College Nursing program chair
Glenda B.
Kelman

Professor and Chair

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Kim
Gendron

Assistant Professor of Nursing

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Racheal Paige
Racheal
Paige

Assistant Professor of Nursing

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Jody Scardillo
Jody
Scardillo

Professor & Program Director, Nursing

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Marcy A.
Fiet, RN

Assistant Professor of Nursing

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Tracey A.
Continelli

Associate Professor of Nursing

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Nancy Michela, Russell Sage College Nursing program faculty member
Nancy J.
Michela

Associate Professor of Nursing

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Emilie
Deck

Assistant Professor of Nursing

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Melissa
derBoghossian

Assistant Professor of Nursing

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Reina
Del Rio

Assistant Professor of Nursing

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Tyler
Owitz

Assistant Professor of the Practice of Nursing

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Hope
Raggs

Assistant Professor of Nursing

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Jody Scardillo

“Health care is demanding and busy and … our Master’s in Nursing graduates are finding positions that they are happy about.”

Jody Scardillo, DNP RN ANP-BC CWOCN (Assistant Professor of Practice and Graduate Program Director)

Your Future Career with a Master’s in Nursing

Alumni of our graduate Nursing programs have career opportunities as nurse practitioners, nurse educators, nurse executive-administrators and clinical nurse specialists. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook for Nurse Practitioners.

$123,780

the median annual wage for nurse practitioners.

40%

increase in employment opportunities predicted through 2031.

M.S. in Nursing Alumni Spotlights

Meet the successful students and alumni of our nursing master’s program.

Alumni
Masters in Nursing Degree
Suja Thomas, AGPCNP- BC, MSN.Ed., RN, CWCN, COCN, CCCN

“I was drawn to nursing because of the unique blend of science and compassion it embodies.” said Suja Thomas, clinical …

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Alumni
Masters in Nursing Degree
Donald Tessitore, NP

For Donnie Tessitore, completing an undergraduate degree in Health Services Administration confirmed that health care was the field he wanted …

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Alumni
Nursing Bachelor’s Masters in Nursing Degree Flex Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Patricia Klimkewicz, PhD, RN-BC, MBA

When she was in first grade, Sage alumna Patricia Klimkewicz, dean of health sciences at Hudson Valley Community College, hoped …

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Alumni
Masters in Nursing Degree 2020
Carl Cacciotti 

At age 54, Carl Cacciotti is about to begin the third act of his very full life.  Right out of …

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Alumni
Billie Lynn Allard, MS, RN, FAAN

There’s an old English proverb that goes, ‘All good things come to those who wait.’ Billie Lynn Allard of North …

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“Russell Sage College is a great choice for any student coming in to go towards Nursing”

Kristina Marie Villajuan, RN/Nurse Educator & Russell Sage College Alumna
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518-244-2001

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