What you need:
- 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
Transfer Student Nursing Admission
Apply for admission to Hesston College and to the Nursing program.
To be officially accepted to the nursing program, applicants must meet all of the following:
- An academic plan to complete 50 of the 60 liberal education/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/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
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.
