Highest Credit Transfer Limit Rn to BSN online program

[SunnyEricssun]

Hello all,

I graduated from a AAS RN program at a local community college. Now I am standing with 109 credits. Thus, I am trying to find an online RN to BSN programs that accepts the most credits as transfer. So far I have found Thomas Edison NJ, accepting up to 80 transferable credits. And Grand Canyon University with 84 credits. If anyone knows any other online programs that has a higher limit, please let me know. By the way this community college is the only college I have attended. I found this to be an influencing factor in some universities. Thank you all in advance.

[meanmaryjean, DNP, RN]

Just because a school accepts up to 80 credits, does NOT mean they will take YOUR 80 credits. Courses must align with the program. So you need to dig a little deeper.

Example: College A requires 6 math credits for its BSN. You have 12. Unless they will apply them as electives and you have no other courses that qualify as electives (highly unlikely), you're not transferring all 12 credits in. And even then, if you don't have the 'right' 6 credits, you could conceivably end up taking more math. All credits are not created equal.

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

I completed the online BSN program at Western Governors. The school grants 50 transfer credits off the top for merely possessing an active RN license. This is in addition to any other credits that are accepted for transfer.

I was granted 86 transfer credits (50 for the RN licensure + 36 for prior coursework). That left me with 34 credits to complete, which I earned in 10 months.

[SamuelInc]

"Just because a school accepts up to 80 credits, does NOT mean they will take YOUR 80 credits".

Really? Courses one wants to transfer credits for should be somewhat in line with the program? Is that how it works ?

[Henserson79]

"Just because a school accepts up to 80 credits, does NOT mean they will take YOUR 80 credits". Correct

Courses one wants to transfer credits for should be somewhat in line with the program. That is how it apparently works

[applesxoranges, BSN, RN]

Well, most universities will accept the credits but you have to X amount of credits in certain areas to graduate. Most of my credits transferred to Ohio University because I was in a partner school but they had to have certain credits in certain areas in order to graduate. It's not so much having the credits but trying to get the universities to apply them to your education requirements.

Also, all programs require X amount of credits to be considered a residency student although some will waive that for nursing students since most of the major course work is completed at a community college. They have the requirements because they don't want people to apply from random, easy university and graduate with a bachelors from a prestigious university like Ohio State with having only 1 or 2 classes completed.

[DeLynn, RN]

Capella requires each "Core" to be satisfied, Math/Science core Communication, Humanities and Social Science core, 6 credits in each. I had an associates degree and also a few community college credits, I only had to take one Humanities course and the 11 Nursing courses.

[NICUismylife, ADN, BSN, RN]

WGU allowed me to transfer in 86 credits.