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Shape and Empower Healthier Lives

Health Bachelor’s Programs at Chatham University

Train for the Future of Healthcare

Career-Focused Majors: Prepare for a meaningful career with bachelor’s programs in psychology, exercise science, and nursing, including our online RN-BSN and Pathways to Nursing program.
Integrated Degree Programs: Earn an undergraduate and graduate degree in less time and for less tuition. Grad programs include occupational therapy, physician assistant, and physical therapy.
Foundation for Your Future: Develop skills and confidence for your career through hands-on internships and clinicals, faculty mentorship, and connections to top employers like UPMC and Cleveland Clinic.
Community That Feels Like Home: Our historic, tree-lined campus gives you the best of both worlds — a small, supportive environment where professors and peers know your name and a vibrant city at your doorstep.

Why Choose Chatham University?

150-Year Legacy: Since 1869, Chatham has led with vision and courage — from embracing the arts and sciences to championing women’s leadership and gender equity and pioneering education in sustainability.
Top-Ranked University: Chatham is consistently ranked as a Best College, Best Value, and Top Performer in Social Mobility by The Wall Street Journal and U.S. News & World Report.
Fueling Health and Sciences Careers: Chatham is one of Pittsburgh’s top providers of health, sciences, and sustainability degrees, preparing graduates who fuel the region’s fastest-growing industries.
Accessible Education: Chatham offers generous financial aid and scholarship opportunities designed to significantly lower your costs and make your college education more affordable.

Leading With Courage and Purpose

Chatham University prepares students to lead lives of purpose, meaning, and fulfilling work. Through a combination of liberal arts and professional skills building, Chatham teaches its graduates to be informed and engaged citizens, to welcome and respect diversity of all kinds, and to help improve the fields and communities where they work and live.

Explore Health Programs

Bachelor of Arts in Psychology

Explore contemporary theory and research in psychology while learning to think scientifically about behavioral and mental processes.

Bachelor of Science in Exercise Science

Prepare for dynamic careers in health, fitness, and rehabilitation or graduate study in physical therapy, athletic training, and more.

Pathways to Nursing

Earn a Nursing Diploma from UPMC Shadyside and a BSN from Chatham University while gaining hands-on experience as an RN.

Online RN-BSN

Our online RN-BSN program is designed to offer working professional nurses knowledge and skills that can be immediately implemented into practice.

“At Chatham, the professors, coaches, and other staff members, both during undergraduate and graduate, were so supportive and genuinely cared for my success.”

Madison Black ’20, ELOTD ’24