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 Nightingale College asks for, taken from its own admissions page.
What you'll need
- Transcripts
Entrance exam is the Accuplacer-based Pre-Licensure Nursing Entrance Exam (arithmetic, reading, sentence skills), 260 in each area for full matriculation, three attempts allowed. $150 non-refundable application fee (waived for active duty and veterans); tuition $655 per semester credit for 120 credits. Undergraduate application deadline October 25, 2026 at 11:59pm MDT; Spring 2027 begins January 11; three starts per year, 32 months or eight 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 Nightingale College. Open a category to see each one.
College courses
3
Entrance exams
1
Application basics
2
Prep courses
1
Paths
Routes into BSN. The first step is where you enroll today.
Pre-Nursing to RN
University BSN pathway
Ready to become a nurse? Start with Pre-Nursing, find university BSN programs that fit your goals, and get help planning your prerequisites and applications.
- Timeline
- 4 years
Pre-Nursing to RN
HBCU BSN pathway
Ready to become a nurse? Start with Pre-Nursing, find BSN programs at historically Black colleges and universities, and get help planning your prerequisites and applications.
- Timeline
- 4 years
CNA Exam Prep to RN
University BSN 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 university BSN program.
- Timeline
- 4 years
Georgia CNA to RN
University BSN pathway
Ready to become a nurse in Georgia? Start with your CNA, gain patient care experience, and get help planning your path into a BSN program at a Georgia university.
- Timeline
- 4 years
Acceptees
Acceptees whose paths lead to this program, and how they got in.
Ivette
BSN student at Nightingale College
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Leslie Ann
BSN grad 2026 · LVN before RN · California
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Stephanie
ED staff to BSN student · Nightingale College · WA
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Nursing student
Nursing student · Journey to BSN RN · TX
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haley t.
BSN student at Nightingale College · Kansas
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Sylvia Mendoza
Latina · Bay Area · BSN student at Nightingale College
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