OpenFieldUSF · Sioux Falls, South Dakota, United States
The University of Sioux Falls (USF) is a private Christian liberal arts university founded in 1883 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Celebrated for high-impact nursing education, exercise science, business management, and education, USF leverages its location in South Dakota's economic and healthcare capital—home to Sanford Health and Avera Health—to provide extensive clinical internships and corporate co-ops.
USF delivers undergraduate and graduate degrees through four schools: the College of Arts and Sciences, Fredrikson School of Education, Vucurevich School of Business, and the School of Nursing. The campus features state-of-the-art nursing simulation laboratories and the McDonald Center.
Admissions are holistic and test-optional for undergraduate students, evaluating high school GPA (minimum 2.6). Graduate applicants require an accredited bachelor's degree with a minimum 2.75–3.0 GPA, statement of purpose, two letters of recommendation, and English language proficiency (TOEFL 79+ or IELTS 6.5+).
Top-tier CCNE-accredited undergraduate nursing program featuring over 600 hours of direct hospital clinical rotations in pediatric ICU, emergency trauma, cardiovascular surgery, and obstetrics in Sioux Falls.
IACBE-accredited MBA curriculum emphasizing healthcare executive leadership, medical practice economics, capital investment analytics, and corporate ethical decision-making.
Comprehensive human performance curriculum conducting metabolic testing, electromyography (EMG) muscle activation recording, sports injury prevention, and athletic training protocols.
Undergraduate computing degree delivering hands-on training in object-oriented programming, cloud database structures, mobile application development, and network defense systems.
Graduate leadership program preparing certified teachers for K-12 principal certification, school budget governance, educational law, and instructional coaching.
Pre-professional life science track emphasizing human gross anatomy dissection, microbiology, mammalian physiology, and clinical shadowing in the Sioux Falls healthcare corridor.
Associate Professor of Nursing
School of Nursing
Dr. Schultz conducts clinical research on high-fidelity simulation pedagogies in nursing, medication error reduction in acute pediatric units, and transitions o...
View researcher profile ↗Professor of Biology
Department of Natural Sciences
Dr. Ross specializes in molecular genetics, investigating cellular signaling in mammalian embryonic development, apoptosis regulatory pathways, and undergraduat...
View researcher profile ↗Professor of Physics and Mathematics
Department of Natural Sciences
Dr. Stone conducts research in nuclear astrophysics, measuring low-energy cross sections of nuclear reactions in stellar nucleosynthesis, gamma-ray spectroscopy...
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