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Overview

Tuition $11,700
Licensure pass rate (2025) 97.14%
Accreditor CCNE
Duration 4 years
A bachelor's-level nursing degree that prepares graduates for RN licensure and broader leadership, community-health, and evidence-based-practice roles. Many hospitals now require the BSN for advancement.

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

Entrance exam None required
Minimum GPA 2.8
Apply through School application

What you'll need

  • Prerequisite courses

Progression to the upper-level nursing major requires at least a 2.8 GPA on the nine required courses and a 2.8 Lander institutional GPA, C or better in prerequisites and lower-level nursing courses (NURS 165, 235, 304), science and math completed within 7 years, and clinical agency requirements before upper-level enrollment. Students are admitted to the major each fall and spring.

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 Lander University. Open a category to see each one.

College courses

16

Health and background checks

1

Application basics

3

Paths

Routes into BSN. The first step is where you enroll today.

Acceptees

Acceptees whose paths lead to this program, and how they got in.