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Overview

Tuition $27,811
Licensure pass rate (2023) 98%
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 Saint Anthony College of Nursing asks for, taken from its own admissions page.

Entrance exam HESI A2
Minimum GPA 2.5
Apply through School application
Transfer application Required

What you'll need

  • Prerequisite courses
  • Transcripts

Upper-division college: minimum 56 semester hours of pre-nursing coursework (A&P I and II, microbiology, chemistry, nutrition, statistics, psychology, sociology, English I and II, speech, humanities/ethics) with C or higher; overall GPA 2.5 and science GPA 2.7 minimums; natural sciences within 5 years; HESI A2 entrance exam; application may be submitted after 30 credit hours. 98% NCLEX pass rate for 2023 stated on the college home page.

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 Anthony College of Nursing. Open a category to see each one.

College courses

16

Entrance exams

1

Application basics

2

Paths

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