Hybrid Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing (ABSN)
Accelerated pathway
Earn your BSN in just 16 months
End-to-end support
From enrollment to graduation
Clinical placement
complimentary services
If you’re ready to begin a career as a nurse and have already earned a bachelor’s degree in another field, Rockhurst University offers a Hybrid Accelerated BSN, which includes:
- A full-time program that prepares you to become a skilled nurse in just 16 months
- Delivery by the highly respected Saint Luke's™ College of Nursing and Health Sciences
- 100% online coursework
- One 10-day on-campus residency with hands-on instruction at our state-of-the-art simulation lab
- Anatomy & Physiology I & II with lab (8 credits)
- Microbiology with lab (4 credits)
- General Chemistry or Organic Chemistry with lab (4 credits)
- Nutrition (3 credits)
- Statistics (3 credits)
- Life Span/Developmental Psychology (3 credits)
- 60 credit hours
- 546.5 clinical hours
- $783 per credit hour
- 4 semesters
- 1 campus Residency
- 10-day on-campus clinical instruction during the first semester
- 3 start dates per year
- Bachelor’s degree in any field
- 2.7 cumulative GPA or higher
- Resume
- Completion of prerequisites:
- Must complete 2 of 4 science prerequisites for your application to be reviewed
- Science credits must be no older than 7 years; older credits trigger an ATI TEAS admission exam
- Cannot repeat science courses more than once
- Minimum of grade C in all prerequisite coursework
