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 Saint Anselm College asks for, taken from its own admissions page.
What you'll need
- Personal statement
- Transcripts
Test-optional. About 90 first-year students enter the four-year nursing program each fall; first-years apply directly to nursing with the same materials as other applicants and are encouraged to apply Early Action (Nov 15) or Early Decision (Dec 1), with nursing decisions by Jan 15; Regular Decision priority Feb 1. Nursing applicants strongly encouraged to take chemistry, biology, one more lab science and four years of math. Interview optional. 99% NCLEX pass rate stated without a year.
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 Saint Anselm College. Open a category to see each one.
Application basics
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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.
