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On July 1, 2007, the School of
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as one of the nation's best online graduate programs, being ranked No. 24. In 2015, the
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program began in the fall. In 1998, UCF created the state's fully online RN to BSN program. The year 2003 saw the launch of the nursing PhD program.
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