What you need:
- Your current LPN license allowing practice in Kansas.
- Your ACT or SAT score. Hesston College offers an alternative (ACCUPLACER) which you can take remotely if you don’t have ACT or SAT scores.
- Your high school and college transcripts with at least 50 college credits by the time you enter the program. See prerequisite list below.
Application deadline: March 1
LPN Nursing Admission
LPN Applicants to the BSN program must meet the following standards for admission:
- Evidence of a current LPN license allowing practice in Kansas and meet Kansas Statewide Nursing Articulation Plan criteria or validate currency of nursing knowledge base.
- GPA of 2.75 in practical nursing education program.
- An academic plan to complete 50 of the 60 liberal education or support credit hours required for the BSN prior to entering nursing coursework (the 10 remaining hours may only include the humanities requirement, Biblical Literature, and elective hours).
- Grades of C or above in all required liberal education and support courses and an overall GPA of 2.50 in required courses based on a minimum of 30 college credits.
- ACT composite score of 19, or combined SAT score of 1000 (1365 if taken prior to March 2016), or ACCUPLACER Next-Generation Exam score of 255 in Reading and 255 in Writing (only one ACCUPLACER retake provided).
- Applicants whose native language is not English must provide one of the following:
- A high school diploma or GED earned in the United States, or
- An iBT with minimum scores of 19 in Reading and 20 in Listening, Speaking and Writing, or
- Evidence of English language proficiency from an LPN program to be evaluated by the Nursing Admissions Committee.
Prerequisite List
Liberal Education and Support Course Requirements
First Year Experience or equivalent (1 hour)
College Writing I and II (6 hours)
Speech or Interpersonal Communication (3 hours)
General Psychology (3 hours)
Developmental Psychology (3 hours)
Introduction to Sociology or Sociology of Families (3 hours)
Humanities — two courses from two separate disciplines (6 hours)
Lifetime Fitness or elective (1 hour)
Principles of Nutrition (3 hours)
College Algebra (3 hours)
Elementary Statistics (3 hours)
Introductory Chemistry or General Chemistry I (4 hours)
Anatomy and Physiology (5 hours)
Pathophysiology (3 hours)
Microbiology (4 hours)
Plus general electives (6 hours) – to bring total of above courses to 60 hours
Additional Liberal Education and Support Course Requirement
(not required before entering BSN program)
Biblical Literature (3 hours) – must be taken at Hesston College.
