Saint Francis Medical Center College of Nursing

Private · IL

School data & stats

TypePrivate

LocationIL · Midwest

SettingUrban

Undergrads273

Student:faculty8:1

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Community

Racial diversity15.4%

Gender diversity84.6%

International0%

IdentityRoman Catholic

Overview

Saint Francis Medical Center College of Nursing is a small, hospital-based college in Peoria, Illinois, built directly into the campus of OSF HealthCare Saint Francis Medical Center, one of the region's major hospitals. Its entire academic identity centers on preparing nurses, with a Catholic health-system heritage shaping its mission and student culture. Rather than a broad liberal-arts experience, students enroll expecting a focused, clinically embedded nursing education from the start.

Academics

The curriculum builds toward a bachelor's degree in nursing, with pathways for both traditional and RN-completion students, using the adjoining medical center as a working clinical setting rather than an outside placement site. Students rotate through Saint Francis's units for hands-on training well before many peers at larger universities get comparable hospital access, and class sizes stay small enough for close faculty contact throughout the program.

Worth knowing

Because the college is owned and operated by the hospital system itself, its trajectory is unusually tied to OSF HealthCare's needs and hiring pipeline, a distinctive setup compared with a university nursing department that merely partners with area hospitals.

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Admissions

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Deadlines (2026–27 cycle)

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