College of Health Sciences

The College of Health Sciences at Tennessee State University offers programs ranging from Associate to Doctoral degrees. Some unique aspects of the College are:

• The College offers 3 in-house clinics that serve the public at low or no cost: the Dental Hygiene, the Speech & Language, and the Tiger Community Rehab Clinic.

• The Department of Speech Pathology & Audiology offers a Master of Science (MS) degree in both traditional and distance education formats. The online graduate program in Speech & Hearing holds the distinction of being the first distance education program at TSU, as well as the first distance education program in the area of Speech-Language Pathology in the State of Tennessee.

• The School of Nursing offers both undergraduate (BSN) and undergraduate (MSN) degrees in both traditional and online formats to promote entry into initial and advanced practice nursing professions. The BSN class of 2022 has a 100 percent NCLEX pass rate.

• The Physical Therapy Program has a partnership with LEND (Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities) program with Vanderbilt University. The two-year aggregate pass rate of DPT graduates for the classes of 2020 and 2021 is 96.6 %.

• The Occupational Therapy program received ten-year accreditation through ACOTE (Accreditation Council for Occupation Therapy Education).

• The Department of Public Health, Health Administration, and Health Sciences offers three undergraduate degrees (Public Health, Health Care Administration and Planning, Health Sciences), one graduate degree (Master of Public Health), and a graduate certificate (Public Health).

• The Cardiorespiratory Care program has an overall employer satisfaction of 100%.

• The Health Information Management program has an overall 95% retention rate of students accepted junior/professional level class and over 90% job placement. The program also offers a minor in HIM.

• HPSS was awarded a transformational 5-year Title III grant to renovate/develop state-of-the-art classrooms and two applied physiology labs.

• All accreditable programs are fully accredited.

Associate Degree

Dental Hygiene

Baccalaureate Degrees

Cardiorespiratory Care • Health Sciences

Health Care Administration and Planning

Health Information Management • Public Health

Human Performance Sport Sciences • Nursing

Masters Degrees

Occupational Therapy • Speech Pathology

Human Performance Sport Sciences • Nursing

Doctoral Degree

Physical Therapy

Certificate Programs

Holistic Nursing • Nursing Education

Nursing Administration • Public Health

Family Nurse Practitioner