Overview
Career outlook
Employers hire licensed practical nurses to provide basic patient care such as monitoring vital signs, administering medications, and assisting with daily needs under the supervision of registered nurses and physicians.
Getting in
What Arkansas State University asks for, taken from its own admissions page.
Input website points to ASU-Beebe; data is the ASU-Beebe Practical Nursing program (ASU Jonesboro has no LPN program). Nursing entrance exam required of every applicant within one year of start (2 attempts per cycle, scores ranked by rubric), no prerequisite courses, 2.0 GPA required to award the certificate. Full-time 11 month Searcy program starts January and June; part-time 18 month Heber Springs program starts on a rotating basis; applications stay open until the class is full with a priority consideration date.
Checked Oct 2026 on the school's site. Requirements change each cycle, so confirm before you apply.
Paths
Routes into LPN. The first step is where you enroll today.
Medication Aide to LPN
Your medication administration experience counts. Bridge from certified medication aide into practical nursing and full LPN licensure.
CNA to LPN
Step up from nursing assistant to licensed practical nurse. The fastest license upgrade in nursing, and the standard bridge toward RN.
People
Acceptees whose paths lead to this program, and how they got in.
Tanisha T.
LPN to ADN grad 路 Arkansas State 路 licensed nurse
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Amilah
Nursing student in Arkansas 路 former MA and phlebotomist
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Brittany 馃
BSN, RN 路 student 路 Arkansas
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JudyKay_05
Arkansas State grad 路 RN
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Dajah
Nurse 路 Arkansas State University 路 class of 2025
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LauraLivinLife
46 路 mom 路 full-time plus nursing school 路 Arkansas
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Getting in starts with a path. Pick one, then follow the people who already did it.