Overview
Career outlook
Employers hire BSN-prepared RNs for roles requiring expanded leadership, community-health, and evidence-based-practice competencies, and many hospitals require the BSN for advancement.
Getting in
What Bluefield State University asks for, taken from its own admissions page.
What you'll need
- Transcripts
- Prerequisite courses
- Background check
- Immunizations
Bluefield State offers only an RN to BSN at the bachelor level (pre-licensure nursing is the ASN). Requires graduation from an ACEN or CNEA accredited ADN or diploma program, current unrestricted US RN license, 2.5 GPA from university courses and completed English and math general studies; official transcripts if not a BSU ASN graduate. Application open year round; physical exam, immunization records and background check required before admission, drug screening as necessary. 28 NURS credits at $375 per credit ($10,500 in BSN courses), three or four semesters.
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 Bluefield State University. Open a category to see each one.
College courses
2
Certifications
1
Application basics
4
Acceptees
Acceptees whose paths lead to this program, and how they got in.
