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title: "Provincial ministers visit King Campus to announce stand-alone nursing degree"
type: "article"
space: "MyNews"
author: "Stephanie Conte"
created: 2021-11-30T20:44:43Z
updated: 2021-11-30T20:44:43Z
tags: ["student-news"]
url: "https://students.senecapolytechnic.ca/spaces/112/mynews/articles/student-news/3895/provincial-ministers-visit-king-campus-to-announce-stand-alone-nursing-degree"
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# Provincial ministers visit King Campus to announce stand-alone nursing degree

The Hon. Jill Dunlop, Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities \(MPP, Simcoe North\), and the Hon. Stephen Lecce, Minister of Education \(MPP, King- Vaughan\), visited King Campus to announce the launch of Seneca’s new stand-alone [Honours Bachelor of Science – Nursing degree program](https://www.senecacollege.ca/programs/fulltime/BSN.html) today.

The ministers toured labs and classrooms with President David Agnew and spoke with second-year nursing students in the Patient Care Simulation Lab.

This was Minister Dunlop’s first visit to King Campus and Minister Lecce’s fifth.

Seneca’s Honours Bachelor of Science – Nursing degree program will start in Sept. 2022. The program’s curriculum will provide a diverse and global perspective to prepare students to be one of the health-care leaders of tomorrow. The degree also offers an internal pathway for graduates of Seneca’s [Practical Nursing diploma program](https://www.senecacollege.ca/programs/fulltime/PND.html) to transfer directly into the third year of the curriculum.