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 Georgia Southern University asks for, taken from its own admissions page.
What you'll need
- Transcripts
- Prerequisite courses
- Immunizations
- CPR certification
- Health insurance
Minimum overall GPA 3.0 at application and admission, 54 semester hours of core complete; HESI A2 minimum 75 percent in each of A&P, Grammar, Reading, Vocabulary and Math, scores no older than one year, at most two attempts in 12 months. Fall application opens January 1 and closes February 8; spring opens August 1 and closes September 8. Traditional BSN at Statesboro and Armstrong (Savannah) campuses, 124 credit hours; BLS, immunizations, TB screening and health insurance before enrollment. First-time NCLEX pass 93 percent for the Class of 2023.
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.
- Time
- 4 years
- State
- All states
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.
- Time
- 4 years
- State
- GA
University of Texas at Arlington
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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.