Next Start Date :: July 3, 2026
The Online MSN Program is Designed for Working Nurses Who Want To:
- Understand and promote advanced nursing practices that result in stronger outcomes
- Expand their reach in healthcare and advance to leadership positions
- Promote excellence in teaching and learning for the next generation of nursing students
Pursue Your MSN Online So You Can:
- Integrate scientific findings from nursing, biopsychosocial sciences, genetics, public health, quality improvement, and organizational sciences to improve nursing care across diverse settings.
- Promote safe, high-quality, client- and patient-centered care; role model ethical and critical decision-making; and sustain a healthy work environment using organizational and systems leadership knowledge and skills.
- Articulate the methods, tools, performance measures, and standards related to delivering safe, quality care, and apply quality principles within an organization/system.
- Act as a change agent by applying research outcomes in the practice setting, resolving practice issues and problems, and disseminating results.
- Deliver and enhance safe, quality care and use communication technologies to integrate and coordinate transitions in care using patient-care technology.
- Intervene at a systems level through the policy development process and employ advocacy strategies to influence health and health care.
- Manage and coordinate safe, quality care using delegation, communication, collaboration, and consultation strategies as a leader of interprofessional teams.
- Integrate broad, organizational, patient/client-centered, and culturally appropriate concepts in planning, delivering, managing, and evaluating evidence-based clinical prevention and population care and services to individuals, families, and aggregates/identified populations.
- Influence healthcare outcomes for individuals, families, groups, communities, populations and/or systems.
"The MSN program at IC has given me the opportunity to advance my career while continuing to work full-time in the hospital setting. I could not be happier with the education I chose to move into a leadership role in nursing." - Cassidi Ladely '24
Scholarships Are Available
There are a limited number of scholarships available to students who enroll in an MSN course prior to September 1, 2026. Additionally, some students may qualify to receive a free laptop to be used for their education*.
*The scholarship and technology funds are made possible by a grant for the Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education through the U.S. Department of Education.
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Courses and Admissions
- Courses
At Illinois College, our online MSN program prepares you for excellence in nursing, what ever your role. You’ll learn advanced nursing concepts and choose a concentration in Leadership or Education. Whether you remain in clinical care, choose to educate future nurses, or lead healthcare changes that promote positive outcomes, you’ll meet your career goals and promote best practices in nursing. To earn the degree, you’ll complete 36 semester hours and two practicums in your concentration.
See the full course schedule HERE.
- Admission Requirements
- Have a current and active unencumbered Registered Nurse license issued in the U.S.
- Have earned at least a 2.5 GPA in your bachelor's degree program
- Apply Online Today
- Apply online at admission.ic.edu/apply
- Official transcripts of all college work completed and/or that led to your license as an RN.
The Department of Nursing at Illinois College in Jacksonville Illinois is hosting an on-site evaluation visit by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) on November 2-3, 2026. CCNE is conducting an evaluation of the Online Bachelor of Science in Nursing to the Master of Science in Nursing program.
In accordance with CCNE’s procedures, the Commission provides the opportunity for program constituents and other interested parties to submit, in writing, third party comments concerning our program’s qualifications for accreditation.
All third-party comments submitted to CCNE must relate to CCNE Standards for Accreditation of Baccalaureate and Graduate Nursing Programs, and all comments must be written in English, consistent with CCNE’s policy on Conduct of Business in English.
The link below contains the CCNE standards:
https://www.aacnnursing.org/Portals/0/PDFs/CCNE/CCNE-Education-Standards-2024.pdf
PLEASE SUBMIT WRITTEN COMMENTS to CCNE at thirdpartycomments@ccneaccreditation.org
Deadline: Comments must be received at CCNE by October 12, 2026.
Please note that comments are shared only with the CCNE evaluation team appointed to review our programs. At no time during the review process are these comments shared with the program, the Accreditation Review Committee, or the Board.
If you have any questions regarding the third-party comment process, please contact Sofia Timina, Accreditation Assistant, at stimina@ccneaccreditation.org or 202-887-8478, ext. 257.