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Pre-Nursing


LSUS offers a Pre-Nursing program that prepares students to enter the professional nursing curriculum leading to the Bachelor of Science in Nursing at either Northwestern School of Nursing or LSU Health Sciences Center School of Nursing in New Orleans. Admission to nursing school is on a competitive basis. Applications for admission to the sophomore year must be submitted well in advance of the anticipated date of entrance to complete three years of study. Students are accepted in the fall and spring of each year.

Pre-Nursing requirements vary with each professional School of Nursing and entrance to each school is competitive. Prospective nursing students should obtain the entrance requirements from each school to which they will seek admission.

The following program is designed only for students planning to apply for a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing at Northwestern School of Nursing or LSU Health Sciences Center School of Nursing in New Orleans:

Credit Hours: 30


SOPHOMORE YEAR


Credit Hours: 21


Total Credit Hours: 51+


+Also courses needed to meet requirements of student’s anticipated transfer university