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 Troy University asks for, taken from its own admissions page.

Online BSN application with transcripts from all schools and a $20 fee; fall applications accepted February 1 to midnight March 15, spring applications August 1 to midnight September 15; students not enrolled at TROY must first be admitted to the university. Early Acceptance for high school seniors (3.5 HS GPA, ACT 25 or SAT 1200, biology and chemistry or physics, Algebra I and II and geometry) opens November 1 and closes December 15 and requires maintaining a 3.2 GPA. Program takes approximately 4.5 years; page states an NCLEX-RN pass rate of over 95% 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 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.

Zoey

#Current student Accepted toTroy University

Nursing student at Troy University · Alabama

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Tamika

#Current student Accepted toTroy University

RN in the making at Troy University · grad Dec 2026

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_Niya.mone

#Current student Accepted toTroy University

Nursing student at Troy University · AL

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Erin Curry

#Current student Accepted toTroy University

Nursing student at Troy University · Alabama

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