Overview
Career outlook
Employers hire BSN-prepared registered nurses for direct patient care as well as roles requiring expanded leadership, research, and community-health competencies across nearly every healthcare setting.
Getting in
What Bluefield State University asks for, taken from its own admissions page.
What you'll need
- Transcripts
- Prerequisite courses
- Background check
- Immunizations
Bluefield State offers only an RN to BSN at the bachelor level (pre-licensure nursing is the ASN). Requires graduation from an ACEN or CNEA accredited ADN or diploma program, current unrestricted US RN license, 2.5 GPA from university courses and completed English and math general studies; official transcripts if not a BSU ASN graduate. Application open year round; physical exam, immunization records and background check required before admission, drug screening as necessary. 28 NURS credits at $375 per credit ($10,500 in BSN courses), three or four semesters.
Checked Oct 2026 on the school's site. Requirements change each cycle, so confirm before you apply.
Paths
Routes into BSN. The first step is where you enroll today.
CNA to BSN
Bridge from frontline care to a four-year nursing degree, with your patient-care hours working for you.
Georgia CNA to RN Pathway
Start as a Certified Nursing Assistant in Georgia and earn your Bachelor of Science in Nursing at Georgia State. Begin patient-care work in weeks, then ladder into a four-year BSN that prepares you to sit for the NCLEX-RN.
People
Acceptees whose paths lead to this program, and how they got in.
Find your next step.
Getting in starts with a path. Pick one, then follow the people who already did it.