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 Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania asks for, taken from its own admissions page.

ASN offered at the Lock Haven campus, fall start only. TEAS composite 65 or higher (one attempt per calendar year), 2.7 cumulative GPA, and algebra, biology with lab and chemistry with lab with a C or better. Priority deadline December 1, regular deadline April 1 (TEAS accepted to May 1 space permitting); LPN to RN advanced placement deadline March 1.

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

By TransitionU View path

CNA ADN

CNA to ADN (Registered Nurse)

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

2 years

By TransitionU View path

People

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

@iz_moffa

#Current student Accepted toCommonwealth University of Pennsylvania

Bloomsburg nursing student · PA

View page