The College of Education, Nursing and Health Professions prepares you to become an ethical, well-rounded professional in careers that help people live healthy and fulfilling lives.
Our customized curriculum will prepare you for a wide range of careers and post-baccalaureate programs in the education and health professions. Because clinical experience is included in all our programs, you will be actively involved in your field well before graduation.
Discover how your passion for making a difference can become a reality at ENHP.
Join us April 1 or April 16 to experience UHart and celebrate your acceptance!
Take a virtual tour of our new ENHP labs and classrooms in this short video.
Join us Tuesday, April 18 as we celebrate the research and scholarship of ENHP students and faculty!
You’ll get a head start on your career in our undergraduate programs. Most have hands-on experience early in your program, 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.
Now open, the Hursey Center is our new 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.
Respiratory Care
Kaitlynn was hired before graduation as a respiratory therapist at the prestigious Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Her clinical training in UHart's Respiratory Care program and faculty mentoring were instrumental in helping her land this position. "All of the opportunities on and around campus prepared me to achieve my career goals," she said.
Read MoreRehabilitation 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 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 MoreBS/Doctor of Physical Therapy Program
Matt Glassoff '21 is working on his senior honors project with the Hartford Hawks baseball team. Matt's research investigates how players' hip and trunk mobility affects their batting performance. Students in UHart's pre-physical therapy program can conduct this type of faculty-mentored research as undergraduates, rather than waiting until graduate school.
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