About Us

About Us

Vision

Parker University leads the way in patient-centric collaborative and conservative healthcare education, clinical practice, research, and service.

Our Mission

Parker University is a regionally accredited private university that offers certificate, undergraduate, and graduate degree programs in healthcare and business-related fields through multiple delivery formats and learning environments. The university espouses a culture of lifelong learning, research, and service.

Parker University provides its diverse population with support services and learning opportunities to develop the necessary skills for successful employment and career advancement.

Parker Prepared

Parker students are ambitious, compassionate, energetic, and also prepared. Prepared for their career, and to become industry leaders. Prepared with precise techniques and knowledge only gained with real-world experience. They are prepared beyond the required, the expected, the ordinary.

Our students aren’t just prepared-they are Parker Prepared. Our founder Dr. James Parker, believed in personal responsibility and self-actualization. He established a set of principles that continue to guide us today, on a campus steeped in tradition but encouraging innovation. The students of today are Parker Prepared to lead the way into tomorrow.

Leading Position

We’re proud of our position within the vibrant health care market. With 35 private practice partnerships [1] and integrated clinical curriculum with the Veterans Affairs Hospital, we firmly advocate the importance of serving the community and advancing our practice of evidence-based teachings. Our research institute works to bring our findings and advancements to the mainstream through international recognition and collaboration. We move health care forward through community and a firm foundation in science.

Parker University is a regionally accredited private university that offers certificate, undergraduate, and graduate degree programs in healthcare and business-related fields through multiple delivery formats and learning environments. The university espouses a culture of lifelong learning, research, and service. Our university provides its diverse population with support services and learning opportunities to develop the necessary skills for successful employment and career advancement.

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