• Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing at York University is offered as a 4-year teaching program.
  • It is an on-campus program offered on a full-time basis only.
  • This graduate program offers cutting edge innovation and foundational values for nurses who want to be the leaders, educators, and advanced nurse practitioners of tomorrow.
  • The program provides students with a solid foundation of research skills and contributes to life-enhancing change in the health care system.
  • The PhD program degree requirements are:
    • Course work (required courses and electives)
    • Comprehensive Examination
    • Dissertation
  • Students are required to complete a minimum of 18 credits, to be completed in the first two academic calendar years (5 terms) of the doctoral program.
  • Of the 18 credits, 12 are required, and the remaining 6 are elective. Students will participate in Doctoral Seminars (no credits) in Years 1 and 2.
  • The objective of the program is to foster the development of transformative knowledge and innovations in 3 areas of scholarship:
    • Health for persons and communities: Focuses on developing knowledge that informs the promotion and positive transformation of health across the lifespan (i.e., children, youth, adults, and older adults) at the individual, group, community, and global level.
    • Healthcare services and systems: Aims at transforming healthcare services and systems through research, leadership, policy development, and organizational change, in order to enhance health, quality of life and system accessibility, efficiency, and effectiveness.
    • Education in nursing: Aims at expanding knowledge on high-quality undergraduate, graduate, and continuing nursing education through research, transformative and caring pedagogies.
  • The department provides various facilities such as Online Communication Protocol, Nursing Library, etc.
  • Full-time students can also apply for a fellowship whose value is usually $5403.00 per year. If students receive an external scholarship such as OGS or Tri-Council, the value of the scholarship will go towards the York Fellowship.
  • York Nursing faculty and researchers are providing real-world solutions to the complex challenges of health and healing.
  • The Government of Canada’s research agencies promote innovation in research and reward academic excellence by offering a number of valuable and prestigious scholarships to students.
  • The average salary of the program goes up to 54,000 USD.