Our Lady of Lourdes School of Nursing, Dharwad is an autonomous institute, accredited under the RGU and the Indian Nursing Council (INC). The institute is dedicated to quality nursing education with an emphasis on merit for admissions. Built on an area of 5 acres, the school thus provides the ideal environment for focused and personalised instruction for prospective healthcare professionals.

The admission process in Our Lady of Lourdes School of Nursing has been designed to select those desirous of pursuing Nursing and those who may actually make it in this discipline: General Nursing and Midwifery (GNM). The institute mainly conducts this 4-year full nursing and midwifery training programme. Merit-based admissions are granted for the GNM course.