• Offering Campuses
• Program Overview
• Program Learning Outcomes
• Admission Requirements
• Transfer Credit Hours
• Graduation Requirements
• Program Requirements

Offering Campuses

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Argosy University, Atlanta; Argosy University, Denver; Argosy University, Dallas; Argosy University, Twin Cities

Program Overview

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The Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degree completion program is a post-licensure program designed for licensed registered nurses (RN) who have earned either a diploma or an associate’s degree in nursing and desire to advance their personal, professional, and educational goals. This bachelor’s degree program is intended to prepare students to seek professional advancement. The format and courses are designed to meet the needs of the adult learner RN, and to maximize strengths that the working RN possesses. The program builds on the pre-licensure nursing course work to help graduates fulfill the aspirational goals articulated by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing as reflected in the program purposes listed below.

1. Provide a degree completion program for RNs leading to a bachelor’s degree in nursing in which students can achieve the knowledge, skills, and behaviors necessary for professional clinical practice and leadership in health care.
2. Engage degree completion students in the review and application of research findings to support evidence-based nursing practice in the achievement of desired patient outcomes.
3. Prepare the degree completion nursing student to exercise leadership and self-direction in planning, initiating, implementing, and evaluating current and emerging roles in nursing, as well as the emerging needs of health care systems.
4. Foster the ability of degree completion nursing students to deal with professional decisions and ethical dilemmas through critical thinking and appropriate clinical judgment skills.
5. Provide a foundation for graduate education and lifelong learning.

Program Learning Outcomes

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Graduates of Argosy University’s BSN degree completion program will achieve the following outcomes:

1. Provide comprehensive, culturally competent, and ethical nursing care to individuals, families, and communities.
2. Establish care priorities, delegate responsibility to members of the health care team, and make evidence based decisions to achieve desired patient and organizational outcomes.
3. Advocate for the health care needs of individuals, families, communities, and populations within professional, ethical, financial, political, and legal contexts.
4. Use information systems and manage data to inform patient care decisions.
5. Communicate nursing-specific and interdisciplinary knowledge within a complex, highly technical, and rapidly changing health care environment.
6. Utilize leadership, communication, and collaboration skills to improve the delivery of health care and meet the changing needs of society.
7. Advocate for professional nursing practice within health care systems.
8. Research and plan for educational advancement, personal and professional growth, potential career opportunities, and lifelong learning.

Admission Requirements

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• Completion of an associate’s degree or diploma in Nursing from a regionally accredited institution, a nationally accredited institution approved and documented by the faculty and dean of the College of Health Sciences, or an appropriately certified foreign institution. A maximum of 78 lower division or 90 total credit hours may be transferred with grade of “C-“or better.
• Current registered nursing license from the state in which the student intends to practice. Students must maintain a current license throughout the program.
• A minimum score on an Argosy University pre-approved English language proficiency test is required for all applicants whose native language is not English or who have not graduated from an institution at which English is the language of instruction as specified in Section Five, Admission Policies, “English Language Proficiency Policy.”
• Official transcripts from all post-secondary schools attended.

All applications for admission to the program must be submitted to the Admissions Department. An admissions representative will help interested students to complete the following documentation:

• Student Information Form.
• Completed Application for Admission Form.
• Application fee (non-refundable, except Arizona. In the state of Arizona, the application fee is refundable if the application is canceled within three business days of the applicant signing the Enrollment Agreement).
• Proof of high school graduation or GED, and proof of earned college degree.
• Proof of current registered nursing license from the state in which the student intends to practice.
• Immunization records in states where applicable.

Transfer Credit Hours

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The following section outlines the Transfer of Credit policy for the BSN program. 

• Students MUST complete a total of 120 credits to graduate from the program.  A maximum of 90 semester credit hours can be transferred and applied to the BSN degree completion program requirements.  Only 78 semester credit hours of lower division or two-year college coursework will be accepted for transfer credit.
• A student completing an Associate’s degree in Nursing can have the entire degree transferred as a block.  All the general education requirements will be deemed to have been met.
• Student will receive the same number of transfer credits as the Associate degree that has been conferred (1:1 semester or quarter).
• Only Argosy equivalent courses can be applied towards the core Nursing curriculum.
• In the absence of an Associate degree in Nursing, a diploma in Nursing will be evaluated on a course by course basis.
• If the student only has a diploma, or a degree was not earned, additional coursework may be required, including general education courses to meet the 42 credit general education requirement.
• Equivalency of nursing courses taken at another university will be considered on an individual basis.
• Students with a valid RN license will have 12 block credits for the license applied towards the upper division nursing elective requirements.

Transfer credits must have a grade of “C-” or better. Associate of Arts and Associate of Science degrees transfer as a unit, including “D” grades; however, the cumulative GPA must be 2.0 or above. Any “D” grades received during the completion of the associate’s degree earned at other institutions must be repeated with a passing grade of C- or better.

Graduation Requirements

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Students enrolled in the BSN degree completion program are eligible for graduation when the following requirements are met:

• Satisfactory completion of all required courses within the program major with a grade of “C-” or better
• An Argosy University grade point average (GPA) of 2.0 or higher on a scale of 4.0
• Completion of a minimum of 120 credit hours as follows
  • 42 credit hours of General Education Curriculum Requirements(transfer credit hours or completed at Argosy University)
  • 36 credit hours Core Course Requirements
  • 12 credit hours of elective coursework
  • 30 credit hours of pre-licensure nursing coursework (transfer credit hours)
• Completion of a minimum of 36 credit hours of upper division course work
• An Argosy University grade point average of 2.0 or higher
• A completed Petition to Graduate submitted to campus administration

Program Requirements

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Students enrolled in the BSN degree completion degree program are required to complete 120 credit hours distributed as follows: general education requirements, 42 credit hours; core course requirements, 36 credit hours; elective course requirements, 12 credit hours; pre-licensure nursing coursework (transfer credit hours) requirements; 30 credit hours. Please note that students who have not completed the stated general education requirements will be required to include these courses in their plan of study.