Admissions Application Checklist
All Applicants
Your completed packet should include:
- Completed application, including a typed formal statement of your career goals and how you see the specialty nursing program of study assisting you in achieving them. Place your signature at the end of the statement.
- Application Fee: A check made out to Vanderbilt University in the amount of $50 must accompany your application. This application fee is nonrefundable.
- Graduate Record Examination test scores must be forwarded directly to Admissions; School of Nursing; Godchaux Hall; Vanderbilt University; Nashville, TN 37240. Vanderbilt's GRE school code is 1871; the Nursing Department code is 0610.
- Sealed transcript envelopes containing original (official) transcripts from all previous college(s)/university(ies).
- Three letters of recommendation from people who can evaluate your potential for success in a graduate nursing program. Return in sealed envelope.
- Your responses to the interview survey questions.
PLEASE NOTE:
Complete applications: Please return all materials (except GRE score) together in a large envelope. No final decisions can be made on an application before it is complete.
The School of Nursing begins reviewing applications for admission to its new fall class beginning December 1 of the previous year, after which admissions are on a rolling basis. There is no published deadline. Although applicants are encouraged to apply by December 1 of the year before they intend to enroll, there is flexibility. Several programs are very competitive and have a limited number of spaces for incoming students. Applicants who meet the December 1st priority review date have a greater probability of being admitted to these programs. Interested applicants should contact the Admissions Office about specific programs.
Admission decisions are made only upon receipt of all application materials. Once admitted, a $200 non-refundable matriculation fee is required in order to reserve your space for the incoming fall class.
Applications are considered current for one year; accepted applicants who do not enroll during that time must reapply for admission. Individuals may apply for and be approved for one deferral of admission, not to exceed one year. After one year individuals must reapply for admission.
For International Students Only
- Complete all items on Application Checklist.
- Prior to consideration for admission, international student applicants for whom English is a second language must submit a report of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) score. Scores should be less than two years old and above 620 (paper-based) and 260 (computer-based) to demonstrate proficiency. http://www.toefl.org. Applicants may also take the IELTS (Internatinal English Language Testing Service). http://www.ielts.org.
- International student applicants whose native language is not English are required to have an interview with the Program Director and a member of the Admissions Committee. Personal interviews are preferred, but a telephone interview can be arranged.
- International student applicants who wish to enter the program as a registered nurse must successfully complete both the CGFNS (Commission on Graduate Foreign Nursing Schools) and the NCLEX (National Council Licensure Exam) examinations and earn licensure as a Registered Nurse in the State of Tennessee. Information about CGFNS may be obtained by writing CGFNS; 3624 Market St.; Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA or call 215.349.8767 or e-mail 73222.1510@compuserve.com. Visit www.ncsbn.org for more information about NCLEX.
Information about Tennessee licensure may be obtained by visiting the Tennessee Department of Health website at http://www.state.tn.us/health; writing to Tennessee Board of Nursing; Suite 300 Heritage Place, 227 French Landing, Nashville, TN 37243, USA. Or call 615.532.5166.
- International student applicants who have completed college or university coursework at an institution in a country other than the United States must obtain a complete course-by-course evaluation of foreign transcripts, degrees and other relevant documents. In all instances, the evaluating agency will require original, official documentation. Evaluating agencies include World Education Services; Post Office Box 745; Old Chelsea Station New York, NY 10113-0745; telephone (212) 966.6311; web site: www.wes.org and Educational Credential Evaluators, Inc.; Post Office Box 514070; Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53203-3470; telephone (414) 289.3412; web site: www.ece.org.
- International students who are accepted into the program may also be required to complete an intensive English language program at Vanderbilt University prior to beginning classes at the School of Nursing. Information about Vanderbilt's English language program may be obtained at www.vanderbilt.edu/international.
The provisions in these Web pages do not constitute a contract, express or implied, between any applicant, student or faculty member and Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. The School of Nursing reserves the right to withdraw courses at any time, change fees, calendar, curriculum, graduation procedures, and any other requirement affecting students. Changes will become effective whenever the proper authorities so determine and will apply to both prospective students and those already enrolled.
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