University of Minnesota earns top ranking on Planetary Health Report Card

The University of Minnesota School of Nursing received an A on the 2025 Planetary Health Report Card, ranking #1 of nursing schools that were graded.

The Planetary Health Report Card is a metric-based tool for evaluating and improving planetary health content in health professional schools. Student-led, faculty-mentored teams complete the report card, identifying opportunities for improvement. More than 1,500 students at 188 schools in 21 countries took part across medicine, pharmacy, nursing, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, audiology, health care management, and nutrition and dietetics

The Planetary Health Report Card noted the School of Nursing’s excellence in curriculum. “Planetary Health concepts are interwoven amongst many core curriculum courses such as economics of health care, health care policy leadership, epidemiology in nursing and public health nursing. Topics such as the health and economic impacts of climate change are covered, health policy implications of climate change, impacts of changing weather on food and water security, and infectious diseases,” it notes.

The University of Minnesota School of Medicine ranked #6 of medical schools in the United States with an A-, and the University of Minnesota School of Public Health's Healthcare Management program came in #1 with a B on the inaugural report card for its field.