Herzing University-Kenosha Acceptance Rate, GPA, and Admission Requirements

Herzing University-Kenosha requires a minimum TEAS composite score of 58 for pre-licensure BSN admission - applicable to all nursing applicants who do not have 18 or more transferable college credits (those students are assessed on collegiate cumulative GPA instead). A 58 composite is not a trivially low bar: ATI TEAS national first-attempt averages historically cluster around 62?65, meaning many first-time test takers without preparation score at or below the minimum. The TEAS covers four content areas - reading, mathematics, science, and English and language usage - and a single weak section can pull the composite below the threshold even when other sections are strong. Invest in ATI's official TEAS Study Manual and ATI's online TEAS practice tests (the most directly aligned materials available) and complete at minimum one full-length timed practice test before your scheduled attempt. Your TEAS score must be from within two years of your anticipated matriculation date, so time your test accordingly. Students who approach the TEAS as a post-acceptance formality rather than a pre-application priority frequently end up routed into the pre-nursing track, extending their timeline by a full semester or more.

Herzing University-Kenosha is positioned on the Illinois-Wisconsin border and explicitly structures clinical partnerships with healthcare facilities on both sides of the state line - in Kenosha, Racine, and Waukegan-area Illinois hospitals. This dual-state clinical access pool is a structural advantage over single-state programs, which frequently face clinical bottlenecks when regional hospital capacity is limited. When you meet with an admissions counselor, ask specifically: Which clinical partner facilities are currently active on the Illinois side, and which are on the Wisconsin side? How are clinical placement assignments made - by student preference, campus proximity, or program scheduling? What is the typical wait time for a clinical placement slot for your specific nursing track? For nursing students with flexible transportation, having twice the geographic pool of available clinical sites materially reduces the risk of clinical placement delays that extend graduation timelines. Understanding the active partner list before enrollment also lets you assess whether the clinical partner facilities align with the specialty areas you want to train in.

Herzing University-Kenosha's Accelerated BSN program (20?24 months, for students holding a non-nursing bachelor's or master's degree) includes courses that are dual-credit eligible toward Herzing's online MSN program. For ABSN students whose long-term goal is becoming a Family Nurse Practitioner or another advanced practice role, these dual-credit courses eliminate the need to retake equivalent foundational material when enrolling in the MSN - saving both time and tuition. The dual-credit structure is not automatic or self-activating; it must be intentionally identified and tracked from the first semester. At your very first advising appointment, ask: Which specific ABSN courses carry dual credit toward which specific MSN courses? Get that list in writing, keep it in your academic file, and confirm at the start of each semester that you are enrolled in the courses on that list. Students who complete the ABSN without intentionally completing the dual-credit courses frequently discover the benefit only when researching the MSN after graduation - at which point the time and tuition savings are entirely lost.

Herzing University-Kenosha's Practical Nursing diploma program explicitly advertises no-waitlist enrollment - a structural advantage over community college LPN programs in the Wisconsin-Illinois market, where waitlists routinely run one to three years. The 12-month ACEN-initially-accredited PN program qualifies graduates to sit for the NCLEX-PN and enter the workforce as an LPN significantly faster than most competing regional programs. For students who need LPN income as a bridge to further nursing education, Herzing Kenosha also offers a direct LPN-to-BSN bridge pathway - meaning a student can enter the PN program now with no waitlist, complete in 12 months, begin working as an LPN, and then continue to the BSN on a structured ladder without starting over. Confirm no-waitlist status directly with admissions at the time of inquiry, as enrollment capacity can change between marketing and actual enrollment. Also confirm the PN program's current ACEN accreditation status at acenursing.org before enrolling - it currently holds initial accreditation status (newly accredited, not yet through a full review cycle) rather than continuing accreditation.