Florida National University-Main Campus Acceptance Rate, GPA, and Admission Requirements

At FNU the college itself is open-admission, but the BSN is a separate gate you control. You must pass the ATI TEAS with a 65% combined score, taken in person at the Hialeah or South campus (170 questions, 209 minutes), with only two attempts allowed and a mandatory 30-day wait between them - so treat the first sitting as the real one and do a TEAS prep course first. Beyond the number, FNU wants a 500-word essay on your strengths, weaknesses, and life experiences (run through Turnitin and an AI checker, so it must be unmistakably yours) plus an entrance interview with the Program Director. Prepare the essay and interview as seriously as the exam; they're where borderline applicants are separated.

FNU requires all general-education courses completed with a cumulative 3.0 before entering the BSN, plus two letters of reference that may come only from academic or professional sources - not family or friends. The winning move is to front-load your gen-eds at FNU (where advising is built around the nursing sequence), protect that 3.0, and cultivate two faculty or supervisor recommenders early by doing standout work in a science course or a healthcare job. Because FNU is a Hispanic-Serving Institution where instruction and support are bilingual, students stronger in Spanish should lean on that support in gen-eds rather than letting an English-heavy prerequisite quietly drag the GPA below the cutoff.

FNU is built as a stackable career ladder rather than a traditional four-year funnel, and the smart applicant enters at the rung they qualify for and climbs. Diploma and certificate programs (dental, medical, radiology, ultrasound, paralegal) feed associate degrees, which feed the BSN; the RN-to-BSN track transfers 34 credits from a prior nursing license, cutting the degree to roughly 33 credits in 12?24 months. If you're not yet BSN-competitive, enroll in an allied-health certificate or associate track, build the GPA and healthcare experience, then transition upward - every rung is designed to articulate into the next without lost credits.

FNU runs a distinctive Foreign Educated Physicians track that lets internationally trained doctors (graduated from an accredited foreign medical school, typically with practice experience) convert prior education toward a BSN after a NACES course-by-course evaluation - a rare, targeted pathway ideal for Miami's large immigrant medical community. More broadly, FNU schedules on-campus classes in the evening and offers fully online options (including six MBA start dates a year) explicitly for working adults. If you're a career-changer, an internationally credentialed professional, or working full-time, name that pathway directly with admissions rather than applying as a traditional freshman.