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Overview

Tuition $44,210
Licensure pass rate (2025) 86.67%
Duration 48 months
Accreditor CCNE
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 Martin's University asks for, taken from its own admissions page.

Minimum GPA 3.0
Recommendation letters 2
Apply through School application

What you'll need

  • Transcripts
  • Resume
  • Prerequisite courses
  • Background check
  • Drug screen
  • Immunizations
  • CPR certification

Four-year in-person BSN in Lacey with fall or spring entry. Application opens August 1 and first-year and transfer applications are due February 1, with transfer applications to the BSN program due February 10. Cumulative GPA 3.0 or higher and 3.0 or higher in prerequisite sciences, every prerequisite passed with B or higher; transfers submit transcripts, resume, nursing-specific application questions and two recommendation letters (preferably from professors). Background clearance, drug screen, immunizations and AHA BLS required before clinical courses; no entrance exam or application fee stated.

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 Martin's University. Open a category to see each one.

College courses

9

Certifications

1

Health and background checks

1

Application basics

4

Paths

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