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Overview

Tuition $10,600
Licensure pass rate (2025) 96.2%
Duration 48 months
Accreditor ACEN
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 Stephen F Austin State University asks for, taken from its own admissions page.

Entrance exam TEAS
Minimum GPA 3.0
Apply through NursingCAS
Seats per cohort 80

What you'll need

  • Transcripts
  • Prerequisite courses

Traditional BSN: two years pre-nursing plus two years clinical nursing, admitting 80 students per semester via NursingCAS (allow up to six weeks for verification). Minimum 3.0 GPA on pre-nursing foundational coursework and 58.7 minimum TEAS total score; guaranteed admission with 3.5 GPA and 65% or higher TEAS. Seven prerequisite courses (A&P, chemistry, microbiology, pathophysiology, statistics, human development, nutrition/psychology). Deadlines: March 15 for fall, September 15 for spring; no 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 Stephen F Austin State University. Open a category to see each one.

College courses

8

Entrance exams

1

Application basics

1

Paths

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