Founded more than 70 years ago, Jacksonville University (JU) has more than 18,000 alumni. Located on a beautiful 260-acre campus overlooking the St. Johns River in Jacksonville, FL, JU is a traditional, accredited, long-standing University with an outstanding faculty, NCAA Division I athletic teams to cheer for and unparalleled academic and technical support. JU offers one of the largest online RN to BSN degree programs in the country and is recognized as one of the nation's foremost teaching institutions. Faculty have won four Carnegie Foundation Professor of the Year Awards in recent years. In fact, Jacksonville University has been named one of “America's Best Colleges” for the third consecutive year in U.S. News & World Report's America's Best Colleges 2007 list. As a member of the University Alliance Online, the nation's largest exclusive e-Learning provider of degree and certificate programs from accredited universities, JU currently offers the most technologically advanced Online Learning Management System for online RN to BSN degree programs. Through advanced Internet technology, JU students are immersed in a stimulating online learning environment that includes streaming video and audio lectures, Internet message boards, chat rooms and email