BSN Degree Program | New Mexico State University (2024)

• When you are registered in your last semester of pre-requisite courses, contact the School of Nursing Advising Office at nursing@nmsu.edu to confirm your eligibility to apply, and request instructions for taking the HESI Admission Assessment Exam A2 (see BSN Admission Criteria section below).
  • An applicant to the BSN program must have an active NMSU email address (https://myaccount.nmsu.edu/activation).
  • A student may need to reapply to NMSU if they have not attended classes for 1 year since student accounts are deactivated after 12 months (https://admissions.nmsu.edu/apply/).
• Once your eligibility has been confirmed, you will be sent an email from the School of Nursing’s application system, Project Connect, with a link and instructions on how to apply. To login to Project Concert, use your NMSU email and password. There will be a $10 fee per applicant and must be paid before you can enter your application information into the system.
• Applications are due by 11:59 pm on the application due date each semester
  • February 1 - Summer Roadrunner Admission (Las Cruces campus only)
  • April 1 - Fall Admission (All campuses)
  • September 1 - Spring Admission (Las Cruces campus only)

BSN Admission Criteria

• Applicants must achieve a minimum nursing pre-requisite GPA of 2.75 in order to be eligible to apply to the BSN program.
• Students can repeat a nursing pre-requisite course one time for a grade replacement; however, a repeated course does not count towards the minimum 15-credits required to retain merit-based scholarships per NMSU’s policy. More information about the BSN Program Pre-requisite Course Repeat Policy can be found here.
• The GPA of accepted students is generally higher than this minimum

HESI Admission Assessment (A2)

• BSN applicants are required to take the HESI Admission Assessment (A2) each semester in which they wish to apply to the BSN program. Scores from previous semesters will not be considered. Applicants may take the exam as many semesters as they want to apply to the BSN program, but are responsible for the cost each time they take it.
• Applicants are allowed two attempts per semester but must take the entire exam on the first attempt. They may take only those sections in which they wish to improve their scores on the second attempt. The BSN program will accept the high scores from the two exams to factor the applicant’s Ranking Composite Score.

• BSN applicants must earn at least 75% in each required category to pass the exam. The cumulative score must be 75% or higher.
• The Ranking Composite Score will be calculated on the English Composite, Biology, Chemistry, & Math scores and may be different than the score reported on the HESI student report.

The exams will be open during the following dates:

• Fall Traditional, Pathways, and Summer Roadrunner application
  • Deadline to apply February 1 ^st
  • Exams will be open from October 1 to February 1
• Spring Traditional and Pathways application
  • Deadline to apply September 1
  • Exams will be open from March 1 to September 1

Only exams taken between the dates listed above will be considered for placement in the BSN program.

The BSN program will accept exams taken for other schools if the above requirements are met. Applicants must provide scores directly to the BSN program via e-mail to nursing@nmsu.edu as the BSN program does not have access to other schools’ records.

Admission Score

Admission to the BSN program is a competitive process and is based on ranked admission scores. The NMSU BSN Program Admission Score* is calculated as follows:

*BSN program admission score calculations are subject to change.

Students planning to apply to the BSN program must first contact the School of Nursing Advising Officebefore applying to the program in order to determine eligibility and to obtain an application.