Watts School of Nursing is located in Durham, North Carolina, which is the home of world-renowned Duke University Medical Center, Durham Regional Hospital, the Durham VA Medical Center, and numerous clinics and medical research laboratories. Called the "City of Medicine," Durham is a perfect place to begin your nursing career.

The Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area - one of the fastest growing areas in the United States - offers a wide variety of fine dining, entertainment, shopping, nightlife and historical sites. Triangle universities draw major concerts and sporting events.

 

Durham has a well-deserved reputation for promoting the arts, including the nationally acclaimed American Dance Festival. Just a few miles from Watts, Duke Forest offers acres of virgin forest and greenways for picnicking, jogging, or biking. And Durham is a short drive from either the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains or North Carolina's famed beaches.

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