Mary Baldwin University

Mary Baldwin University occupies a historic campus in downtown Staunton, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley. Founded in 1842 and long a women's college, it became fully coeducational in recent years and now enrolls undergraduate and graduate students across the liberal arts and professional programs. Health sciences operate separately from the main campus at the Murphy Deming College of Health Sciences in Fishersville, roughly six miles east, in a purpose-built facility designed around simulation labs and interprofessional training space.

Nursing at Murphy Deming sits alongside physical therapy, occupational therapy, and physician assistant programs, which means students train in a building where other health professions are learning simultaneously and coursework can be structured around team-based care. The nursing sequence moves through anatomy and physiology, pharmacology, pathophysiology, and health assessment into nursing care across medical-surgical, maternal-newborn, pediatric, psychiatric-mental health, and community settings, with simulation work preceding supervised clinical rotations at hospitals and agencies throughout the valley. Graduates are prepared for registered nurse licensure. Compared with Virginia's large public nursing programs, Mary Baldwin offers small cohorts and a dedicated health sciences campus in a rural region where clinical placements come with less competition.