Associate Degree in Nursing

Overview

Career outlook

Employers hire ADN-prepared registered nurses to provide and coordinate direct patient care, administer treatments, and educate patients across hospitals, clinics, and long-term care settings.

Getting in

What Butte College asks for, taken from its own admissions page.

ADN offered as a Regular (traditional) track of 2 to 2.5 years and a one-year Accelerated track; TEAS is part of the application and the Accelerated track uses a points system. Program applications are released about three months before each deadline. Entry requirements, application dates and costs sit in collapsed sections of the page that could not be read within the fetch budget.

Checked Oct 2026 on the school's site. Requirements change each cycle, so confirm before you apply.

Paths

Routes into ADN. The first step is where you enroll today.

LPN ADN

LPN to RN Bridge

Advance from practical nursing to RN with bridge programs that credit your LPN coursework.

18 months

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CNA ADN

CNA to ADN (Registered Nurse)

Turn your CNA experience into an associate nursing degree. The fastest route to RN licensure.

2 years

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People

Acceptees whose paths lead to this program, and how they got in.

mariahatkin

#Current student Accepted toButte College

Nursing student at Butte College · AR · class of 2027

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