External Transfer Information
(from outside BC or from Woods College of Advancing Studies)

All external transfer (students who have completed studies at another institution of higher learning or the BC Woods College of Advancing Studies) applications are handled by the admissions office. 

Applicants should normally have completed 2 semesters of Anatomy and Physiology with laboratory as well as 1 semester of Chemistry with laboratories. Ideally they will also have completed a semester of Statistics (in any department) along with a college-level mathematics class or a statistics course taught in a department of mathematics.

Anatomy & Physiology and Chemistry are prerequisites for progression to Pathophysiology and Health Assessment, the required sophomore courses that are themselves prerequisites for beginning the clinical course sequence. Pathophysiology and Health Assessment are given in the fall semester only. Therefore, students who have not completed Anatomy and Physiology and Chemistry (with labs) will likely be extending their program for at least one semester (beyond the 8 full-time semesters of college normally required for a BC undergraduate) unless they can complete anatomy and physiology and chemistry in the summer before their first semester at BC. (Under specific circumstances, subject to availability of clinical placement slots and with approval of the Undergraduate Associate Dean, a specific clinical sequence change can be made that will permit an August graduation rather than a December graduation for students who do not complete prerequisites for the sophomore sequence until the fall of their 3rd year of college, but this route comes with disadvantages and access to it cannot be guaranteed.)

Students who transfer into the program with all science courses and who have not had a 2-3 credit introductory nursing course will be required to complete NURS 2070 Introduction of Professional Nursing in their fall semester concurrently with the first-semester sophomore course sequence. The 1-credit NURS 1010, Nursing Professional Development Seminar, will be waived for transfer students, but they will be offered an opportunity to meet with other transfer students and upperclassman group leaders in the fall semester.

For more information, please contact Jeffrey Gallant, Associate Director of Transfer Admissions, at jeffrey.gallant@bc.edu.

Internal Transfer Information
(from CSOM, MCAS, & LSOE)

Internal transfer applications from CSOM, MCAS, and LSOE to the CSON BS (nursing) program are handled through the Undergraduate Program Office.

Effective immediately, all internal transfers to the Connell School of Nursing’s BS (nursing) program of students who are in their first or second year in one of the other 3 undergraduate schools at Boston College (the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences, the Lynch School of Education, or the Carroll School of Management) will be handled through a formal application and selection process in the Spring for a once-a-year transfer intake for the following fall. Application packets will be available online as of January and will be due in mid-March. There are prerequisite courses required for entry into second year and students should begin planning to take them as soon as they decide they are serious about applying. Detailed information about the application process and prerequisites can be found here.

Please email questions regarding the internal transfer process e-mail questions regarding the internal transfer process to ugnurse@bc.edu.