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 The University of Alabama asks for, taken from its own admissions page.
What you'll need
- Interview
- Prerequisite courses
Students enter the lower division by meeting UA admission and declaring nursing, then apply for upper division promotion: 3.0 cumulative GPA in all lower division courses and 3.0 in required sciences, a departmental interview, all lower division courses completed or in progress with C- or higher, and at least 3 of CH 104, BSC 215, BSC 216, BSC 242 completed. Fall promotion application opens May 15 with June 1 deadline; spring promotion opens August 15 with September 8 deadline (nursing-admissions.oitapps.ua.edu). Upper division is five semesters; the full BSN is seven semesters.
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 The University of Alabama. Open a category to see each one.
College courses
13
Entrance exams
1
Application basics
3
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.
