{"id":115923,"date":"2026-01-13T03:34:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T03:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/115923\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T03:34:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T03:34:33","slug":"excelsior-university-launches-innovative-nursing-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/115923\/","title":{"rendered":"Excelsior University launches innovative nursing program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January 12, 2026 &#8211; New York-based Excelsior University, which <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/university-selects-st-petersburg-for-first-physical-location\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recently opened<\/a> its first standalone campus in St. Petersburg, has launched a Bachelor of Science in Nursing prelicensure program. Officials designed the hybrid, accelerated learning experience to be completed in three years or less. Students can <a href=\"https:\/\/excelsior.medcerts.com\/?utm_source=excelsior_university&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=FY26SPAGeneral_MedCerts_PR_AUG&amp;utm_term=medcerts-excelsior_press_release\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">learn more<\/a> about and apply to the program at two open house events Feb. 3-4 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at 9400 4th St. N., Suite 100.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/zaps\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More Zaps<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frontpage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"January 12, 2026 &#8211; New York-based Excelsior University, which recently opened its first standalone campus in St. Petersburg,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-115923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-st-pete","9":"tag-st-pete-headlines","10":"tag-st-pete-news","11":"tag-st-petersburg","12":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","13":"tag-st-petersburg-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}