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Prepare to confidently take on higher-level nursing roles across a variety of health care settings, with an empowering, women-centered online program for working licensed RNs.Prepare to confidently take on higher-level nursing roles across a variety of health care settings, with an empowering, women-centered online program for working licensed RNs.Prepare to confidently take on higher-level nursing roles across a variety of health care settings, with an empowering, women-centered online program for working licensed RNs.

  • Earn Your BSN in as Few as 12 Months — Our program is designed with flexibility to fit into a busy RN’s schedule.
  • Automatically Receive 94 Transfer Credits — RNs with an associate degree in nursing and an active license benefit from a generous transfer credit policy.1
  • Benefit From Lowered Tuition —To increase access to high-quality nursing education, we’ve reduced program tuition by 24%. Earn your BSN for as low as $17,000.

Why Earn a BSN?

82.1%

of employers indicate a strong preference for BSN holders2

43.2%

of health care settings require a BSN for new hires.3

5%

fewer patient deaths in hospitals with more BSN-educated nurses.4

Empowering Nurses for More Than a Century

Simmons University has empowered nurses to shape lives of purpose since 1902 and has offered high-quality online nursing programs since 2013. Now, our online RN to BSN program for women is helping nurses across the U.S. become the nurse leaders of tomorrow.

This innovative program is backed by years of research into effective online teaching and learning and features a faculty-designed curriculum built around socially responsive patient-centered care and hands-on clinical experiences.

  • Explore contemporary nursing issues in live, online classes.
  • Grow your patient care expertise through interactive coursework.
  • Expand your practical skills during 80 immersive clinical hours.

As a Simmons nursing student, you will discover unwavering support from expert faculty, staff mentors, and our dedicated clinical placement team. You will also develop lasting relationships within our passionate community of health care change-makers.

Graduate from our RN to BSN program ready to grow from technical nursing practice to professional nursing practice — and be uniquely prepared to advance your career even further in our online MSN – FNP and DNP programs.

Elevate your clinical practice and advance your career with Simmons’ RN to BSN program.

1Applicants who have completed an associate degree in nursing program from a regionally accredited college or university and have passed the NCLEX Registered Nurse Examination will automatically be awarded credit as a block of 72 credits. Applicants with an unencumbered, unrestricted, and active RN license will automatically receive an additional 22 credits for a total of 94 credits.arrow_upwardReturn to footnote reference

2Employment of New Nurse Graduates and Employer Preferences for Baccalaureate-Prepared Nurses. American Association of Colleges of Nursing. (Retrieved June 7, 2021)arrow_upward

3Employment of New Nurse Graduates and Employer Preferences for Baccalaureate-Prepared Nurses. American Association of Colleges of Nursing. (Retrieved June 7, 2021arrow_upwardReturn to footnote reference

4Aiken, L. H., Clarke, S. P., Cheung, R. B., Sloane, D. M., & Silber, J. H. (2003). Educational Levels of Hospital Nurses and Surgical Patient Mortality. JAMA, 290(12), 1617–1623. arrow_upwardReturn to footnote reference