Leading the way
Creighton is a true leader in the health sciences, educating more professional health sciences students than any other Catholic university.
Through a series of courageous choices, we are now expanding the reach of our influence while deepening our commitment to caring for the whole person in the Jesuit, Catholic tradition.
You can help us create more Jesuit-educated health care leaders like you by supporting Creighton’s fundraising campaign Forward Blue and making a gift to your school or college.
Forward Blue
Forward Blue is the largest and most comprehensive fundraising campaign in Creighton’s history. The campaign is a massive, concentrated effort over an extended period of time to celebrate Creighton’s mission, while raising funds to ensure that mission endures.
Building on our strengths
Two capital projects underline the growth of our health sciences enterprise — the $75 million CL and Rachel Werner Center for Health Sciences Education (opening fall 2023) and the nearly $100 million Creighton University Health Sciences Campus – Phoenix (opened in fall 2021).
Creighton continues to make bold strides in its training and curriculum, as well. Through the University's innovative approach to interdisciplinary education, students learn and train alongside other health sciences professions. Through the medical humanities, they study disciplines traditionally seen outside the scope of medicine to emphasize the areas of healing beyond the physiological.
As we prepare the next generation of health care leaders amid a rapidly changing world, we draw on our foundational strengths as a Jesuit, Catholic institution. Every move we make will be to the benefit of our students and the patients they will one day serve.
Creighton's Phoenix campus
In 2021, Creighton welcomed the first group of health sciences students to its new Phoenix campus, the $100 million Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust Health Sciences Building. The campus will accommodate nearly 900 students and bring future health care professionals to an area direly in need of them.
How a new health sciences facility will build on Creighton's strengths
As Creighton continues to expand its reach in Phoenix and globally, the CL and Rachel Werner Center for Health Sciences Education will serve as a modern connection between the health sciences on the Omaha campus.
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Creighton's hearing center named after pioneering alumnus
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District Medical Group establishes scholarship for Creighton students in Phoenix
The District Medical Group (DMG) Scholarship will support four medical students every year to strengthen Creighton’s efforts to recruit and support Latino, Latina and Latinx students — as well as other students who come from low-income or underrepresented backgrounds.
A Creighton program that's changing Omahans' lives
Creighton's Cura Project, a program for and study of Omahans with Type 2 diabetes, aims to prove that the path to better health runs right through the pocketbook.
Creighton Health Sciences
A few figures that underline the exciting momentum of Creighton's health sciences enterprise.
health sciences majors
3 in 5 undergraduate students are health sciences majors.
pre-professional
45% of Creighton students enroll in pre-professional programs, with 40% pursuing health sciences degrees.
jobs
Health sciences graduates support more than 11,300 jobs in Nebraska, helping Omaha and Nebraska earn high rankings for health care access.
Boldly forward
"For Creighton to remain a national leader in health sciences education, we must continue to push forward. We must continue to be bold.
"You see this boldness in our programs and partnerships and the ways we are preparing our students. You see it in the Phoenix campus and in the CL and Rachel Werner Center breaking ground on our Omaha campus.”
— Catherine Todero, PhD, BSN’72, vice provost of Health Sciences Campuses and dean of the College of Nursing.
Making connections
"At Creighton, we’re taught how to treat the patient, but we’re also learning how to look for the underlying factors, to understand where the patient is coming from.
"This is why Creighton-educated health care professionals are so good at what they do. They know how to make connections with patients and their families. To care for them and to make them feel cared for."
— Andrew Dong Lee, School of Medicine
Make a gift
There are many ways to support the Creighton health sciences. Find your giving opportunity.
College of Nursing
Support a leader in the field.
School of Medicine
Forming the next generation of health care leaders.
School of Dentistry
Support one the nation's best dental schools.
Physical Therapy Scholarships
Supporting physical therapists trained in service and compassion.
Occupational Therapy Scholarships
Help us continue to form some of the best occupational therapists in the nation.
Pharmacy Scholarships
Help us continue to form some of the best pharmacists in the nation.
Physician Assistant Scholarships
Support a truly transformative program, dedicated to the whole person.
Creighton Health Sciences Phoenix Campus
Support one of the most ambitious projects in Creighton’s history.
Phoenix — School of Medicine Scholarships
Help our medical students and physicians meet a need in the Southwest.
Phoenix - Pharmacy Scholarships
Help our pharmacy students meet a need in the Southwest.
Phoenix - Occupational Therapy Scholarships
Help our occupational therapy students meet a need in the Southwest.
Phoenix - Physical Therapy Scholarships
Help our physical therapy students meet a need in the Southwest.