Northshore Technical Community College (Northshore Technical College-Sullivan Main Campus Louisiana Technic) Acceptance Rate, GPA, and Admission Requirements

NTCC's Practical Nursing admission requires Accuplacer or TEAS scores, but only scores earned in person at an NTCC testing site are accepted - scores from another college, a testing center, or an online proctored exam are rejected outright, no exceptions. Schedule your test at the Lacombe or Hammond campus specifically, and build in enough lead time to retest if needed (minimum one-week wait between attempts).

Admission isn't a simple test-score cutoff; NTCC uses a weighted ranking system where a CNA, Patient Care Technician, Medical Assistant, or EMT certification (plus documented work experience) measurably raises your rank against other applicants with the same test score. If you have a semester before your application window opens, earning one of these credentials is a concrete, controllable way to move up the list.

Passing the pre-nursing course PNUR 1001 with a B or better no longer substitutes for a qualifying Accuplacer/TEAS score - but it does unlock a 4th testing attempt if you've already used your standard three tries in the academic year. Treat PNUR 1001 as insurance against a test-score plateau, and take it strategically in the same year as your third test attempt so the extra try isn't wasted.

NTCC operates five nursing-eligible campuses (Florida Parishes, Hammond, Lacombe, Livingston, Sullivan), and admission cycles are staggered - not every campus admits every semester. Before committing to "your" campus, check the current admissions calendar across all five; applying to a campus with an open cycle this semester can save you an entire year over waiting for your home campus's next opening.