Apply any time: the representative guides documentation, undergraduates self-certify the diploma or GED, and program-specific requirements layer on top for nursing and doctoral tracks. Transfer applicants need 24 or more quarter credit hours with a cumulative GPA of at least 1.5, and individual courses transfer when accredited, equivalent, and graded C-minus or better, with age-of-course limits in some subjects. Sessions start about eight times a year, recent examples ran mid-August, mid-September, late October, and late November, so the next door is never more than six weeks out. One structural note for online students: fully-online study is ineligible for F-1 visa holders.
The enrollment sequence, optimized
Let the representative earn their keep
The admissions rep drives the checklist, documents, transcripts, program prerequisites. Ask them the two questions that matter: which session your file can realistically make, and what your program's minimum-grade rules are before you meet them the hard way.
Send every transcript
The 24-quarter-credit threshold with C-minus-or-better course transfer converts past work into sessions deleted, and at per-credit pricing, into money kept, per the tuition manual.
Choose your first session's format deliberately
The 5.5-week sprint and the 11-week format carry identical content; your first session should be the one your work season can hold, per the rhythm manual.
Know your program's grade floor from day one
MSN and DNP nursing courses require a B, and several graduate programs want B or better in core courses; the grading manual holds the map.
Nursing's extra doors
The RN to BSN wants the license; the MSN's five tracks include the FNP and AGPCNP with mentored practicum sequences ahead, NSG6420 through NSG6440; the DNP stacks field experience and a defended capstone. None of it complicates the application much, all of it shapes the plan, and the MSN desk schedules coursework around clinical fixed points as standard practice.
Starting strong on the quarter clock
- Map the session's weeks in the first sitting, especially in sprint format
- Graduate nurses: internalize the B rule before Week 1 grades
- Book the next session before this one's final week; eight doors a year reward chains
- First session wobbling? Week-three intervention through the desk beats week-five heroics
A session opens within six weeks, always
Send your program and transcript situation. The transfer plan and first-session map come back free.
Sources and verification
Facts on this page come from official and independent sources, and anything that matters is worth checking against the originals:
- www.southuniversity.edu/online: South University's official online hub, primary source for admissions and start-date facts
- catalog.southuniversity.edu: the official catalog, source for transfer and program policies
- www.sacscoc.org: the institutional accreditor
- www.ccneaccreditation.org: Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, the nursing accreditor
- apastyle.apa.org: APA Style, the official style authority