Here’s the price tag on UConn’s new nursing school
A rendering of UConn's new School of Nursing building.
UConn’s Board of Trustees on Wednesday is scheduled to vote on a proposal to spend $100 million on a new nursing school building in Storrs.
A budget breakdown for the project is included in the board’s meeting agenda. It calls on tapping three separate funding sources: $30 million in state general obligation bonds; $45 million in UConn 2000 bond funds; and $25 million in gift funds.
The gift funds include a large donation from UConn alumna and former nurse Elisabeth DeLuca, who is the wife of late Subway co-founder Fred DeLuca.
The new 90,000-square-foot building will be located at the corner of Bolton Road and Maple Lane, adjacent to existing clinical, academic and research space on the Storrs campus. It will include a lecture hall and classrooms; simulation lab suite; human behavioral research and web labs; student academic center; offices and support spaces.
Currently, the School of Nursing is located in Storrs Hall on the north side of campus, which was built in 1906 and expanded to 51,000 square feet in 2012 to accommodate the growing program enrollment, according to the university.
The new School of Nursing building, which is currently in the bidding phase, is set to open in July 2026. University officials are working to identify a new use for the space that will be vacated.
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