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 Carthage College asks for, taken from its own admissions page.
What you'll need
- Transcripts
- Prerequisite courses
Direct entry for high school seniors with 2.75 unweighted GPA and 4 units English, algebra, geometry, biology, chemistry; 2.75 cumulative GPA maintained through the program with C minimum in prerequisites. Delayed-admission and transfer students complete A&P I-II, General Chemistry I-II, REL 1000, PYC 1850 and COR 1100/1110. One full-tuition nursing scholarship per year, renewable four years. 98% NCLEX pass rate stated without a year.
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
CNA BSNBridge from frontline care to a four-year nursing degree, with your patient-care hours working for you.
- Timeline
- 4 years
- State
- All states
Support available to Spanish learners
California State University, Fresno
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Georgia CNA to RN Pathway
CNA BSNStart 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.
- Timeline
- 4 years
- State
- GA
Support available to Spanish learners
University of Texas at Arlington
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Find your next step.
Getting in starts with a path. Pick one, then follow the people who already did it.