Online MSN Program

MASTER OF SCIENCE IN NURSING

COMPLETION REQUIREMENTS

For

Graduates of UT Southwestern

Women’s Health Care Nurse Practitioner Program

ELGIBILITY:

To be eligible for this option, the following admission requirements must be met:

• Be a graduate of UT Southwestern Women’s Health Care Nurse Practitioner Program
• Have a Baccalaureate degree in nursing earned prior to entrance to the UT Southwestern Women’s Health Care Nurse Practitioner Program
• Be nationally certified as a Women’s Health Care Nurse Practitioner

In addition to the general graduate admission requirements of the University, students applying for admission to the MSN program are expected to fulfill the following requirements:

• Submit references with the completed admission application (2 professional, 2 academic);
• Submit transcripts verifying a minimum grade point average of 3.0 for the last 60 semester credit hours of undergraduate work;
• Hold a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree from an accredited College;
• Show proof of current licensure as a Registered Nurse in the state(s) where clinical practicum will occur;
• Complete a statistics course with a grade of "C" or better.
• Achieve a score of 1000 on a combination of the verbal/quantitative portions of the GRE or a normative score on the MAT at the 50th percentile or above for nursing. 
• Consideration for admission is also given to one or more of thefollowing: the applicant's demonstrated commitment to his or her chosen field of study, socioeconomic background, multilingual proficiency, geographic region of residence, first generation of family to graduate from an undergraduate program, and involvement and level ofresponsibility in other matters including extracurricular activities,employment, community service, or family responsibility of raisingchildren.

DEGREE PLAN:

The semester hours that eligible students will receive credit for include the following:

The courses that eligible students will need to complete at The University of Texas at Tyler to meet requirements for the Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) include:

TOTAL = 36-39 SCH