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 Piedmont Technical College asks for, taken from its own admissions page.
What you'll need
- Transcripts
- Prerequisite courses
Competitive limited-enrollment program admitting 32 students for fall and for spring; fall entry applications May 1-16 (decisions mid June), spring entry Sept 1-16 (decisions mid October); only the first application is reviewed. Program-ready requirements: BIO 210, BIO 211, COL 103, ENG 101, MAT 120 or MAT 110 and PSY 201 with C or better and a 3.0 GPA across those courses, TEAS 65% or higher in both math and reading, good academic standing, transcripts and TEAS scores on file; points-based application worksheet. Major coursework takes four semesters after acceptance; ACEN accredited.
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 Piedmont Technical College. Open a category to see each one.
College courses
8
Entrance exams
1
Certifications
1
Application basics
2
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.
Tori
Practical Nursing grad · Piedmont Technical College · SC
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Andrea Smith
LPN in South Carolina · Piedmont Tech grad
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NurseJazzyBelle
Urgent care MA and master cosmetologist turned nursing student · GA
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Starr
Nursing student at Piedmont Tech · SC
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