Amplify your potential.
At the University of Hartford’s College of Education, Nursing and Health Professions (ENHP), your passion for helping others is the foundation for a meaningful and successful career.
Our programs combine classroom learning, hands-on experience, and personalized support to prepare you for real-world impact. Whether you’re ready to inspire young learners, provide compassionate care, or advance wellness in your community, you’ll find your purpose—and your path—here.
What You’ll Experience
Learn from expert faculty who bring real-world experience into every class.
Practice your skills in state-of-the-art labs and through partnerships with 400+ schools and health care organizations.
Thrive in smaller classes where professors know your name and your goals.
Save time and money with accelerated programs that help you start your career sooner.

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UHart's online master’s in nursing program has been ranked among the best by U.S. News and World Report for the second consecutive year.

You’ll get a head start on your career in our undergraduate programs. Our programs have hands-on experiences, helping you build your skills – and your resume.

Take your career to the next level with our master’s and doctoral programs. Our alumni have advanced to leadership positions in school administration, higher education, and health care organizations. Whether online or on-ground, our programs will help you grow personally and professionally.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects millions of new health care and education jobs in the coming decade.
ENHP makes sure you’re career ready by providing you with real-world experience—as a teacher or health care professional—throughout your UHart career.
In our direct-entry Physical Therapy program, students can move directly from the undergraduate program to the professional program. We also offer a 3+3 option that enables students to finish the combined program in only six years.
Our on-campus simulation labs enable nursing students to practice patient care skills prior to starting their clinical rotations.
Our Respiratory Care program provides students with more than 750 hours of clinical experience before graduation.
Students in our education programs get classroom experience beginning in their first semester and continuing every year.
Our prosthetics and orthotics students learn how to design and fabricate custom prostheses for patients.
The Hursey Center is our 60,000-square foot academic building that houses state-of-the-art labs and learning spaces for growing programs in the College of ENHP. Facilities include nursing simulation suites, a motion analysis/kinesiology lab, occupational therapy skills lab, and physical therapy labs.
Rehabilitation Sciences
Duffy Felmlee, associate professor of rehabilitation sciences, works with the Combat Wounded Veterans' Challenge to study the use of prosthetics while scuba diving. He notes that this kind of aquatic rehabilitation offers significant social and physiological benefits to veterans with lower-limb amputations.
Read moreNursing
Jillian is working her dream job as a labor and delivery nurse at Middlesex Hospital in Middletown, Connecticut, and felt right at home on her first day of work. That’s because Middlesex was one of her clinical placements in UHart’s Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program. Read MoreIntegrated Elementary/Special Education
Cianna was hired before graduation as a special education teacher at Betances Learning Lab Magnet School in Hartford. As a graduate of UHart's Integrated Elementary and Special Education program, she earned two teaching certifications and experienced many different types of schools and grade levels in her fieldwork and student teaching placements.
Read MoreInterim Dean of ENHP
Brian holds a Bachelor of Science in Physical Therapy from Quinnipiac University, a Doctor of Science from Andrews University, and is a graduate of the APTA Fellowship in Higher Education Leadership.
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