Program Overview

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Bachelor's in Nursing, BSN

Earn Your BSN Degree in Three Years

Start your career faster with the same depth of clinical experience as other nursing programs in Chicago. After three years in Roosevelt’s nursing program, you’ll be fully prepared to take the NCLEX exam and become a registered nurse.

At Roosevelt, you’ll learn more than the essentials of nursing — you’ll learn how to analyze complex situations, make solid clinical decisions and offer compassionate care to your patients. Our program usually welcomes a cohort of 30 new students each year, and Nursing students build close relationships with one another as they learn and study together.

Admission Info

Location

Chicago

Applications are evaluated on a rolling basis and seats are limited

High School Seniors

The program will evaluate your application holistically, with an emphasis on your academic achievement in high school. Successful candidates have:

• 12 academic units in English, math, laboratory science and social science.
• Minimum 2.5 cumulative unweighted grade point average on a 4.0 scale.
• Minimum 1200 SAT-I or 23 ACT.
• Activities demonstrating leadership, teamwork or a commitment to community service.

Nursing applicants should have at least one year of high school science and math:

• Biology
• Chemistry
• Algebra
• Geometry
• Highly recommended: three years of high school math and a science course in your senior year.

Accreditation

The nursing degree program at Roosevelt University is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE).

Sample BSN Courses

• Fundamentals of Nursing
• Medical-Surgical Nursing
• Mental Health Nursing
• Nursing of Childbearing & Childrearing Families
• Pharmacology

Career Opportunities

Illinois needs more than 21,000 nurses to fill the health care shortage in the state. Roosevelt graduates have launched successful careers at:

• Advocate Health Care
• Amita Health Care
• Ingalls Memorial Hospital
• Little Company of Mary
• Mount Sinai Hospital
• NorthShore Health System
• Northwestern Medicine
• Weiss Memorial

“I received my education at an institution that values hands-on learning, which has helped me exponentially at work, My clinical experience prepared me for these stressful times and made me the nurse I am today.”

Pooja Shah

Clinicals in top hospitals

Learn from experienced nurses who could one day be your coworkers. In the Roosevelt BSN degree, you’ll work with diverse patient groups during clinicals at places like:

• Humboldt Park Health
• Northwestern Medicine
• Sinai Health System
• Weiss Memorial Hospital
• Roseland Community Hospital

Pre-Nursing Program

The BA Health Science pre-Nursing program is another option for Freshman at our Chicago campus. The pre-Nursing program provides the foundational courses needed to prepare for the rigors of nursing school. After the first year in pre-Nursing if a student has completed the required courses with minimum grade of C, earned a GPA of 2.75 or higher, and a HESI 2 test score of 78% or higher, they will be considered for acceptance into Roosevelt’s BS Nursing program. We encourage you to learn more about the BA Health Science pre-Nursing program.

Direct entry program

Apply as a Freshman student as part of our Direct Entry Program, and learn more about the admission requirements and process. The admission process page also includes information for those who wish to apply to Nursing as a Transfer applicant.