SIMMONS UNIVERSITY

Instruction - graduate programs: simmons currently serves 2,800 students in graduate programs at the master and doctoral levels. The university's graduate programs are co-educational. These programs are housed in the college of organizational, computational, and information sciences (library and information science and business), college of social sciences, policy, and practice (social work and public policy), the college of natural, behavioral, and health sciences (behavioral analysis, health professions education, nursing, nutrition, physicaltherapy) and in the gwen ifill college of media, arts and humanities (children's literature, gender and social studies, history). The university offers online programs in nursing, social work, behavioral analysis, and public health reaching all fifty states, the district of columbia and canada. During the 2024 academic year, the university conferred 1,219 graduate degrees and certificates. Instruction includes expenditures for the graduate programs as well as financial aid.