History

The University of Massachusetts (UMass) is made up of the five campuses of the UMass System (Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth, Lowell, and UMass Chan Medical School).  UMass Chan is one of the fastest growing academic health centers in the country and is home to the T.H. Chan School of Medicine – the Commonwealth’s only medical school – the Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, and the Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing; and a thriving biomedical research enterprise. The UMass Chan campus is shared with its clinical partner UMass Memorial Medical Center (UMMMC) – University Campus and the Memorial Campus in downtown Worcester.  UMass Memorial Health Care (UMMHC) also includes the affiliate hospitals: Wing, Health Alliance, Marlborough and Clinton. 

The Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing, was established in 1970 under Massachusetts General Laws with the UMass Chan Medical School as the founding school.  The Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing is distinctive as the only publicly funded nursing school in the Commonwealth with a sole focus on graduate nursing education. It is also one of the few nursing schools in New England based at an academic health sciences center, sharing campus resources and facilities with its clinical partner, UMass Memorial Medical Center, part of UMass Memorial Health Care. The Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing offers Master’s degrees, Post-Master’s Certificates and Doctoral degrees, preparing registered professional and advanced practice nurses within nurse practitioner, nurse educator tracks and for faculty, research and other nursing leadership positions.