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University of Colorado College of Nursing

College of Nursing
 

Admissions

Admission Requirements

The following requirements/materials are required for a complete application. Admissions decisions will be made after each deadline and following a faculty review. All materials submitted become the property of the University of Colorado College of Nursing.

Requirements

  1. An undergraduate nursing degree from an NLNAC or CCNE accredited school or university.
    • You must provide proof of nursing accreditation from the school where you received your bachelor’s degree in nursing. You can get this information either from the NLNAC or CCNE websites or from your institution.
  2. One copy of the official transcript from each college or university ever attended.
  3. Four (4) letters of reference with at least one academic reference:
  4. Completion of a research course, at an institution that is regionally accredited, with a grade of C or better.
  5. Completion of a statistics course, at an institution that is regionally accredited, with a grade of C or better.
  6. Copy of current and unencumbered nursing license.
    • Out-of-state applicants must submit a copy of their current and unencumbered nursing license and must obtain a current Colorado nursing license prior to starting their program of study if doing clinical course work in Colorado.
    • For more information contact:
      Colorado State Board of Nursing
      1560 Broadway, Suite 670
      Denver, CO 80202
      303-894-2430
  7. The GRE is highly recommended of those applicants whose cumulative undergraduate GPA is less than 3.0.

International Students

  1. In addition to the standard admission requirements, international applicants must submit the following:
    • A copy of your current passport.
    • Financial statement for international applicants. Call 303-315-2230 for more information.
  2. TOEFL: Required for all international applicants to the College of Nursing.
  3. For all applicants with educational coursework from a country other than the U.S.:

A course by course evaluation for U.S. equivalency of international transcripts done by an approved international transcript evaluation service.

    • Evaluation by World Education Services (WES) is preferred.
    • The evaluation must be mailed directly from the evaluation service to the College of Nursing.

​Two (2) official transcripts from each college or university attended.
Submitted to the College of Nursing. We now accept eTranscripts.  You may have your institution e-mail the eTranscripts to nursing.transcripts@ucdenver.edu or mail them at the address below.

Mailing address for Transcripts:                                      

Office of Student Affairs & Diversity
University of Colorado, College of Nursing
C288-6 13120 E 19th Ave.                                                
Aurora, CO 80045                                                            

 

​Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL)

If your primary spoken language is not English you will to need to submit TOEFL score as part of the application process.

If you are an international applicants to the College of Nursing you need to submit a TOEFL score as part of the application process.

The College of Nursing TOEFL Exam Code is 3377. Please be sure to use this code when registering for the exam to ensure that we receive the results.

A total score of at least 560 on the paper-based TOEFL and 50 or above on the Test of Spoken English (TSE), 220 on the computer-based TOEFL and 50 or above on the TSE, or 83 on the Internet-based TOEFL with 26 or above on the Spoken portion is required.

Applicants that do not currently meet the minimum TOEFL requirement may participate in the College’s free English as Second Language (ESL) workshops that are offered on Saturdays throughout the school year.

 

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