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 Utah Valley University asks for, taken from its own admissions page.
What you'll need
- Interview
- Background check
- Drug screen
- Immunizations
- CPR certification
- Prerequisite courses
UVU's BSN is a completion program for ASN-prepared RNs; the prelicensure entry is the ASN with BSN Completion and these requirements are for that ASN application. Prerequisites with C or better, TOEFL if ESL, background check and drug screen, current AHA CPR, immunizations and physical, interview if selected. Fall application opens April 20 at 8 AM and closes May 20 at 4 PM; spring opens August 20 and closes September 20.
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
Bridge from frontline care to a four-year nursing degree, with your patient-care hours working for you.
Georgia CNA to RN Pathway
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.
People
Acceptees whose paths lead to this program, and how they got in.
Mlebaron
Nurse in Utah 路 Utah Valley University grad 路 always up for adventure
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Syd
Nursing grad from Utah Valley University 路 UT
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Ariana Leon 馃┑馃ゥ
MA, CNA, LPN 路 now nursing student in Utah
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Getting in starts with a path. Pick one, then follow the people who already did it.