Apply to the Professional Nursing Program

Application Availability and Deadlines

A nursing career will challenge you to continually learn and build excellent problem-solving and interpersonal skills while making a difference in people’s lives. Nursing is an exciting profession that affords practitioners many opportunities.

Nursing at SDSU is rewarding and fun. We offer a standard Bachelor of Science in Nursing, an accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing designed for students who already hold a non-nursing bachelor's degree and an online RN to B.S.N designed to help registered nurses who have an associate's degree in nursing move ahead in their nursing career.

If you are interested in applying to one of our graduate nursing programs, which include the Master of Science in Nursing, Certificate Program, Doctor of Nursing Practice or Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing, visit our Department of Graduate Nursing.

Apply to the standard Bachelor of Science in Nursing program

Applications for the standard B.S.N. program for spring 2022 (January start) are due September 25. The application will be available on this page, about one month prior to the deadline.

Please note, as  you consider application, if you are not currently an SDSU student, application is a two step process, you must:

1. Apply to the university.
2. Submit the College of Nursing application.

Apply to the accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing program

We are currently accepting applications for the accelerated program at the Rapid City and Aberdeen sites. The accelerated B.S.N. program is designed for students who already hold a non-nursing bachelor's degree but wish to obtain a B.S.N. Be sure to review the accelerated B.S.N. program requirements before applying, if you haven't already.

If you are not currently an SDSU student, application is a TWO STEP process:

1. Apply to the university.
2. Submit the College of Nursing application via NursingCAS online application service.

Apply to the online RN to B.S.N. program

We are currently accepting applications for the online RN to B.S.N. program. Be sure to review the RN to B.S.N. program requirements before applying, if you haven't already. Application deadlines are as follows:

Application due date	Session start date	Session end date
May 1, 2021	June 30, 2021	August 13, 2021
June 28, 2021	August 23, 2021	October 8, 2021
September 1, 2021	October 18, 2021	December 3, 2021
December 1, 2021	January 10, 2022	February 25, 2022
February 1, 2022	March 21, 2022	May 6, 2022
April 1, 2022	May 16, 2022	July 1, 2022
June 1, 2022	July 11, 2022	August 26, 2022
July 1, 2022	August 29, 2022	October 14, 2022
September 1, 2022	October 24, 2022	December 9, 2022

If you are not currently an SDSU student, application is a TWO STEP process:

1. Apply to the university.
2. Submit the College of Nursing application via NursingCAS online application service.