Bachelor of Science

Admission Requirements

BSN students are admitted to the nursing program after completing the 58 hours of pre-professional course work. Students are admitted to the nursing program in either the fall or spring semester. Application deadline for the fall semester is February 1st; for the spring semester, September 1st. To qualify as a candidate for admission to the nursing program, a student must:

• Develop a plan for completing prerequisite courses.
• Achieve a cumulative GPA of 2.75 in all college work and a grade of C (2.0) or above in prerequisite courses. Returning adult students who do not meet these criteria may be eligible on the basis of recent academic achievement according to selection criteria.
• Complete the Test of Essential Academic Skills (TEAS) with a minimum score on each of the four sections: math-50%, science-50%, reading-65%, English-65%
• Submit an application to the School of Nursing one semester before enrolling in the nursing curriculum.
• Be admitted to Wichita State University.

The following preprofessional courses are taken prior to the junior-senior professional curriculum:

Basic skill courses:

• English I and II, speech, college algebra

General education courses:

• Fine arts appreciation, humanities (history, literature, intermediate-level language, religion or women's studies) and introduction to philosophy or ethics
• Social and behavioral sciences: general psychology, developmental psychology and introduction to sociology
• Natural sciences and math: chemistry with a lab, microbiology with a lab, anatomy and physiology with a lab, statistics

Additional prerequisite courses:

• Nutrition, and Medical Terminology.
• The 6 hours of additional requirements for a BSN degree are an upper division ethics (Bioethics or Health Care Ethics) and an Issues and Perspectives general education course.
• The professional curriculum is a 60 hour, four-semester clinical program

  WSU Plan of Study--Lists WSU Course Numbers

  Transfer Guides for Kansas Community Colleges

*Students who are licensed as an LPN in Kansas and who meet work experience criteria may earn up to seven credit hours through the NLN Nursing Acceleration Challenge Exam (ACE). (3cr/hrs of Nutrition, 2cr/hrs of NURS 310, and 2cr/hrs of NURS 360)