The duration of course is 4 years. The B.Sc. Nursing program is designed to prepare its students for shouldering responsibilities and assuming accountability for Nursing services at the primary, secondary and tertiary levels of care. They are essentially equipped to work as bedside Nurses as well as generalist level medical, surgical, paediatric, psychiatric, community health nurses and midwives. They are also expected to take up leadership in nursing, being teachers, first level managers and beginning researchers.

During the first academic year basic sciences and fundamentals of Nursing are taught. They are exposed to hospital as well as community right from the first academic year. In the subsequent terms, the subjects covered are specialized nursing in individual subject in medicine, surgery, child health, psychiatry, community health, obstetric and midwifery nursing.