Now Taking Applications
App deadline: Dec 6, 2024
Next start: Jan 13, 2025
Take the first step — a Felician University enrollment advisor can answer your questions and guide you through the application process. They can help with:
- Admission Requirements
- Enrollment Support
- Curriculum Details
- Tuition & Financial Aid
- Clinical Placement
Fast-Tracking Your Way to Career Advancement
Felician University combines academic rigor with affordability and individualized attention, translating into a graduate experience that prepares students for lifelong career success. With immersive learning; on-campus, online, and hybrid course options; and faculty with industry experience, you can fast-track your way to a graduate degree and career advancement.
CCNE Accredited
Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education
MSCHE Accredited
Middle States Commission on Higher Education
Military Friendly® School
A recognized Yellow Ribbon, Purple Heart, and Military Friendly University
About Felician University
Felician University operates on two campuses in Lodi and Rutherford, New Jersey. The University is one of the institutions of higher learning conducted by the Felician Sisters in the United States. Founded by the Felician Sisters of Lodi, New Jersey, it began as Immaculate Conception Normal School with the first summer session commencing on July 5, 1923.
Preparing Tomorrow’s Leaders in Health Care
A Student-Centered Approach to Education
At Felician, we recognize the differing needs of graduate students are characterized by busy, working lifestyles. We provide individualized attention to support you as you navigate balancing your schedule on the road to academic success.
As a co-educational, liberal arts institution, Felician is home to approximately 2,300 undergraduate, graduate and adult studies students. With full-time, part-time, and online offerings, you can expect an accommodating academic experience at Felician University.
Mission
Felician is an independent co-educational Catholic/Franciscan University founded and sponsored by the Felician Sisters to educate a diverse population of students within the framework of a liberal arts tradition. Its mission is to provide a full complement of learning experiences, reinforced with strong academic and student development programs designed to bring students to their highest potential and prepare them to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century with informed minds and understanding hearts. The enduring purpose of Felician University is to promote a love for learning, a desire for God, self-knowledge, service to others, and respect for all creation.
Vision
To be a pre-eminent Catholic Franciscan University where scholarship and the practice of teaching and learning place students first in the enduring quest for truth and the persistent pursuit of competence, character, and compassion.
Our Values
- Respect For Human Dignity … our reverence for and commitment to promoting and protecting the dignity of persons.
- Compassion … an empathetic consciousness of others expressed in caring service.
- Transformation … the process that encourages an open mind and heart, leading to continuous improvement of the person and ministry.
- Solidarity with People in Need … ensuring the needs of the poor and vulnerable are met through advocacy and action.
- Justice and Peace … forging right relationships, recreating a sustainable environment, promoting the common good – all in the pursuit of peace.
Felician University is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.
The master’s degree program in nursing and post-graduate APN certificate program at Felician University are accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (http://www.ccneaccreditation.org).
The online Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology curriculum is aligned with the Master’s in Psychology and Counseling Accreditation Council (MPCAC).
Whether you choose to study online or on campus, our goal is to provide you with the support and resources to reach your highest potential and make the most of your academic experience.
