Bachelor of Science in Nursing

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 The University of Alabama asks for, taken from its own admissions page.

Students enter the lower division by meeting UA admission and declaring nursing, then apply for upper division promotion: 3.0 cumulative GPA in all lower division courses and 3.0 in required sciences, a departmental interview, all lower division courses completed or in progress with C- or higher, and at least 3 of CH 104, BSC 215, BSC 216, BSC 242 completed. Fall promotion application opens May 15 with June 1 deadline; spring promotion opens August 15 with September 8 deadline (nursing-admissions.oitapps.ua.edu). Upper division is five semesters; the full BSN is seven 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

CNA BSN

Bridge 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 BSN

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.

Timeline

4 years

State

GA

Support available to Spanish learners

University of Texas at Arlington

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Acceptees

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

BSN

Alexandria

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