You must complete eight courses (approximately 28-31 credit hours) by the end of the spring semester to be eligible for admission to the BSN Traditional track. Your grades in these courses are used to calculate your nursing application GPA. You must have a nursing application GPA of at least 3.0 when applications are finalized in May.
Learn about pre-nursing coursework
Students must take eight required courses (approximately 28-31 credit hours) to be eligible to apply. The grades in these courses are calculated to determine a nursing admission GPA and may impact the nursing admission GPA in either a 65% or 35% weight, based on its category. We place these courses in Category A or B to explain this:
Category A (65% of the weight in the nursing admission GPA):
- Basic Human Anatomy: ANAT-A 215 (5 credits)
- A finite math or calculus course: MATH-D 116 and D117, MATH-M 118, MATH-M 119, MATH-M 211, MATH-V 118, or MATH-V 119 (3-4 credits)
- English Composition: CMLT-C 110, ENG-W 131, ENG-W 170, or ENG-W 171 (3 credits)
- Psychology: PSY-P 101, PSY-P 102, or PSY-P 155 (3 credits)
- Sociology: SOC-S 100, SOC-S 101, or SOC-S 230 (3 credits)
Category B
- Human Physiology: PHSL-P 215 (5 credits)
- IUB General Education course (3 credits)
- IUB General Education course (3 credits)
The Two GenEd courses are chosen from these areas:
- Social & Historical Studies (SH): maximum of one course
- World Languages (WL) or World Cultures (WC): maximum of two courses
- Arts & Humanities (AH): maximum of two courses
Important notes
- Courses and credits that can be used to determine the nursing application, science, and GenEd GPAs include Advanced College Project (ACP) dual-credit courses, Advanced Placement (AP) courses, International Baccalaureate (IB) credits, special departmental course/test credits, and transfer credits.
- Undistributed credit may be used only to fulfill elective credit.
As part of the application process, you are required to complete the Student Disclosure of Criminal Conviction and Pending Criminal Charges Form to disclose any issues that would be documented on a national criminal background check. You will fill out the form online when you complete your BSN program application.
If you have pending legal charges or are currently in a pretrial diversion program, you are ineligible to apply for the BSN program until those are resolved. Certain types of offenses, such as theft, may disqualify you from applying for five years. If you have more than one offense (including alcohol citations), you may be ineligible to apply.
National criminal background check
If you are admitted to the School of Nursing, you are required to complete a National Criminal Background Check annually. If you have a criminal offense while a student in the School of Nursing, you will be required to disclose this issue to the Director of Student Services within seven business days.
Mandatory drug screen
If you are admitted to the School of Nursing, you are required to provide proof of a negative drug screen annually. The School of Nursing and/or a clinical partner may request additional drug screens.
Follow these steps to submit your application for the BSN program:
- Attend an information session during the fall semester to learn more about application requirements. All pre-nursing students will be invited via email.
- Complete the online application. The application is available from January 15 through April 15 each year.
