Overview
Career outlook
Employers hire ADN-prepared registered nurses to provide and coordinate direct patient care, administer treatments, and educate patients across hospitals, clinics, and long-term care settings.
Getting in
What Baptist Health College Little Rock asks for, taken from its own admissions page.
What you'll need
- Transcripts
- Prerequisite courses
ATI TEAS 60% composite and 66% reading minimum (scores within 2 years, proctored on campus) OR ACT 19 composite (within 10 years). No minimum GPA; C or better in all nine required general education courses (30 credits: A&P I and II, Microbiology, math, English Comp I and II, Psychology, Sociology or Developmental Psychology, Nutrition). January start: application due November 1, file complete November 15; August start: application due June 1, file complete June 15. Traditional track 18 months (24 with gen ed prep). NCLEX 95.8% for 143 traditional graduates of Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 (bhclr.edu news page).
Checked Oct 2026 on the school's site. Requirements change each cycle, so confirm before you apply.
Prerequisites
The prerequisites you'll need to meet to apply to this program at Baptist Health College Little Rock. Open a category to see each one.
College courses
9
Entrance exams
2
Application basics
1
Paths
Routes into ADN. The first step is where you enroll today.
Pre-Nursing to RN
Community college ADN pathway
Ready to become a nurse? Start with Pre-Nursing, find community college ADN programs that fit your goals, and get help planning your prerequisites and applications.
- Timeline
- 2 to 3 years
Pre-Nursing to RN
HSI community college ADN pathway
Ready to become a nurse? Start with Pre-Nursing, find ADN programs at Hispanic Serving Institutions, and get help planning your prerequisites and applications.
- Timeline
- 2 to 3 years
CNA Exam Prep to RN
Community college ADN pathway
Ready to become a nurse? Start by preparing for your CNA exam, gain patient care experience, and get help planning your path into a community college ADN program.
- Timeline
- 2 to 3 years
Georgia CNA to RN
Community college ADN pathway
Ready to become a nurse in Georgia? Start with your CNA, gain patient care experience, and get help planning your path into a Georgia ADN program.
- Timeline
- 2 to 3 years
Acceptees
Acceptees whose paths lead to this program, and how they got in.
Tyesha
Southern girl in AR · Practical Nurse at BHCLR · Class of 2025
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a.mac
Ex-military now a Baptist Health College of Nursing grad · AR
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essentially_destiny
Esthetician turned nursing student · Arkansas
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ashley.nicole262
Nursing grad from Baptist Health College Little Rock · Arkansas
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Jacee Lynn
Nurse · Baptist Health College Little Rock grad
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