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Admission and Programs Overview
Welcome to the College of Nursing at the University of South Florida! The USF College of Nursing offers a wide variety of programs tailored to meet the wealth of options available to today’s Nurses. With degrees at the bachelors, masters, and doctoral level, our graduates are poised to become leaders in healthcare, education, and research. Our undergraduate degrees include options for the entering student as well as those looking to start a second career in Nursing. At the Masters level, students can choose from an expansive range of concentrations leading to the ARNP designation as well as those focused on education, anesthesia, and clinical nurse leadership. The PhD provides a research-based degree and the new DNP offers an advanced clinical practice degree.
In order to apply to programs at the College of Nursing, applicants must submit TWO applications: one to USF and one to the College of Nursing. In general, the steps to apply to any program at the College of Nursing are as follows:
  1. Submit a USF Admissions Application
  2. Submit a College of Nursing Application (check the appropriate College of Nursing deadline below)
    • Complete the on-line College of Nursing application at https://hsccf.hsc.usf.edu/soar. For questions contact: University of South Florida College of Nursing – (813) 974-2191 or nurstudent@health.usf.edu.
    • Please note a U-number is required in order to submit the College of Nursing application. Individuals who have completed step 1 (applied to USF admissions) will receive an email from USF on how to access their U-number within 48 hours. Once a U-number is established, it may take an additional 48 hours for the USF system to upload to the Nursing system. Therefore, individuals should allow up to 4 days after applying to USF before attempting to login/apply to the College of Nursing.

  3. Submit required documentation (check the appropriate College of Nursing deadline below)
    • For undergraduate students, all required documentation (including transcripts) should be sent directly to the USF Office of Undergraduate Admissions, 4202 E. Fowler Avenue, SVC1036, Tampa, FL 33620-6900. Check with Undergraduate Admissions for a list of required documentation.

      For graduate students, all required documentation should be sent directly to the College of Nursing, 12901 Bruce B. Downs Blvd., MDC 22, Attn:  Nursing Graduate Admissions, Tampa, FL 33612. All documentation must be received by the deadline in order for applications to be considered.

      • Masters and NBM (RN-Masters w/ a Bachelors in another field) Applicants – The required documentation includes three letters of recommendation, personal statement, resume, and sealed official transcripts from each college attended.  Applicants are required to have a Florida RN license in good standing.  The GRE is required for Nurse Anesthesia applicants.  Applicants may be required to have an interview with the appropriate program director or designee.  Note for applicants to the CNL, Nursing Education, Oncology, Primary Care Concentrations:  All required documents must be submitted in one complete packet to the College of Nursing Graduate Office.  Incomplete packets or individual documents will not be accepted and will be discarded.  Click here for further details. 

      • DNP, BS-PhD, and MS-PhD Applicants – The required documentation includes: three letters of recommendation, resume or curriculum vita, goal statement, GRE scores, and sealed official transcripts from each institution where a Bachelors degree or higher was earned.  Letters of Recommendation for BS/MS-PhD and DNP applications should be submitted in the approved formats.  Resumes should also be submitted in the approved format.  Applicants will be required to have an interview with the appropriate program director or designee. Dependent upon the program, applicants are required to have the appropriate nursing license in good standing.  


    • All coursework and degrees completed outside the United States require a course by course evaluation from an approved evaluating agency.  The foreign transcript evaluation services approved by the USF Graduate School can be found at: http://www.grad.usf.edu/graduate-admissions-Foreign-Transcript-Evaluation.asp.  Please note that the Florida Board of Nursing maintains its own list of approved evaluating agencies.  The Florida Board of Nursing approved agency list can be found at: http://www.doh.state.fl.us/mqa/nursing/nur_foreign.html.  Transcript evaluations must be received at the College of Nursing in their original sealed envelopes by the deadlines posted below.
College of Nursing Deadlines:
  • Upper Division - Summer: March 15; Fall: June 15
  • Accelerated - Summer: March 15 (exception: no Accelerated Admission for Summer 2009); Fall: June 15
  • RN to BS - Spring: November 1; Summer: March 30; Fall: July 1
  • RN to MS - Spring: November 1; Summer: March 30; Fall: July 1
  • Masters -- Spring: October 1; Summer: February 15; Fall: June 1 (exception: Nurse Anesthesia accepts applications once per year - applications must be submitted by March 1, 2010 to be considered for the Fall 2010 admission term; see below for a list of masters concentration admissions terms)
  • PhD - Applications due by March 15, 2009 for Fall 2009; February 1, 2010 for Fall 2010
  • DNP - Applications due by March 15, 2009 for Fall 2009; February 1, 2010 for Fall 2010
  • Non-Degree – For Non-Degree deadlines, please see http://health.usf.edu/nocms/nursing/AdmissionsFinacial/nonDegree.html
  • Graduate Certificates - For Graduate Certificate deadlines, please see http://hsc.usf.edu/nocms/nursing/Programs_of_Study/gradcert_admission.html

MASTERS CONCENTRATION

Admit Terms

Acute Care

Not accepting applications at this time

Adult

Fall/Spring

Adult/Occ. Health

Fall/Spring

CNL

Spring/Summer

Family

Fall/Spring

Nursing Education

All

Oncology

All

Pediatrics

All

Psych

Not accepting applications at this time


For more information on our programs, please see the information below. Please read the description of each program carefully to determine which program best suits your area of interest.