• This program is offered online.
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    Who Should Take This Program?

    A Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree is considered a standard requirement for registered nurses (RNs) seeking broader professional responsibilities and career opportunities. If you are an RN and want to advance your career, our online Bachelor of Science in Nursing—RN-to-BSN completion program is designed to help you earn the credentials you need to qualify for new opportunities in specialized nursing and nursing management. Enhance your skills to better meet the demands of today's dynamic health care environment and pursue advanced professional roles.* 

    The online Bachelor of Science in Nursing—RN-to-BSN program is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE).

    Bachelor of Science in Nursing—RN-to-BSN Program Highlights

    Our RN-to-BSN completion program gives you the convenience and flexibility to earn your bachelor's degree online from an accredited institution in as little as 18 months of full-time study.†§ This online nursing program features: 

    • A strong focus on professional leadership with courses in management, informatics, research, emerging trends in health care therapies, health assessment, and community nursing
    • An emphasis on health promotion, community health, health care information, professional ethics, diversity, and health care management 
    • A capstone in nursing, completed in your community with the guidance of expert faculty, designed to improve the delivery of patient care by allowing you to apply the knowledge and skills you learn online in a real-world setting
    • A dedicated faculty of practicing professionals who have attained high levels of achievement in their respective fields 

    What are the Career Opportunities?

    A bachelor's degree in nursing is essential to work as a nurse case manager or in supervisory positions in nursing, management, and hospital administration.* This program is designed to prepare you to advance your nursing career or pursue graduate studies in nursing.‡

  • Kaplan University offers multiple start dates, giving you greater flexibility with your education, life, and work schedules.

    Jun 05

    Online Start Date
    Jun 05, 2013

    Jul 03

    Online Start Date
    Jul 03, 2013

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  • Sequence of Study

    Students who are interested in pursuing the RN-to-Bachelor of Science in Nursing can view a sample sequence of study by clicking here. 

  • Curriculum: Prior Associate's Degree Track

    Prior Associate Degree

    PRIOR ASSOCIATES DEGREE: NURSING (90 Credits)

    Total Prior Associate Degree Credits: 90
    Total Program Credits: 90

    Core

    CS 204: PROFESSIONAL PRESENCE (3 Credits)

    This course introduces students to multidisciplinary techniques and concepts pertinent to lifelong career development and professionalism. Students explore career planning as a strategy and professionalism as a method in order to pursue employment interests and career goals. Concepts include various professional communication skills appropriate for the global workplace, interpersonal relationship management, professional behavior, financial decision making, marketability, and using proper technologies to manage professional identities. 

    Total Core Credits: 34
    Total Program Credits: 90

    HU 280: BIOETHICS (5 Credits)

    In this course, students develop and apply sound ethical reasoning and judgment to important issues in health care. Topics studied include access to health care, medical privacy, end-of-life care, genetic screening, and emerging genetic technologies. Emphasis is on practical applications of ethical principles and analytic methods.

    Prerequisites Required: Any College Composition I course

    Total Core Credits: 34
    Total Program Credits: 90

    MM 207: STATISTICS (5 Credits)

    This course serves as an introduction to collecting, organizing and summarizing, and analyzing data using statistical software. Topics include basic terminology, measurement, sampling procedures, graphical and numerical descriptions of data, basic probability, and making inferences from a sample to the population. Statistical software is provided in the course and extensive use of that software is required. The course focuses on “thinking with” statistics rather than “computing” statistics.

    Total Core Credits: 34
    Total Program Credits: 90

    SC 246: FUNDAMENTALS OF MICROBIOLOGY (5 Credits)

    Fundamentals of Microbiology will review basic microbial cell structure, function, and genetics. The role of microorganisms and their affect on humans and the environment will also be explained. Aspects of medical and public health will be emphasized, as will bacterial and viral diseases, parasites, immunology, and epidemiology. Course material and labs are directly relevant to studies in health sciences, biological sciences, nursing, and genetics.

    Total Core Credits: 34
    Total Program Credits: 90

    SC 435: GENETICS (6 Credits)

    This course explores the molecular basis of genetics as applied to human health, including developmental genetics, immunogenetics, and cancer genetics. Using case studies, students learn the role of dominant and recessive genes in various diseases and the importance of genetic counseling. In addition, students will discuss gene-mapping methodologies and ethical issues in the context of clinical genetics.

    Total Core Credits: 34
    Total Program Credits: 90

    SS 236: PEOPLE, POWER, AND POLITICS-AN INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN GOVERNMENT (5 Credits)

    The purpose of this introductory-level American government course is to provide students with crucial knowledge about how government works and about how they, as individual citizens, fit within that system. Focus is on the rights and obligations of citizens under the democratic political system established under the U.S. Constitution; the branches and levels of government; and the role of the media. This fundamental knowledge combined with critical thinking skills will be valuable personally and professionally.

    Prerequisites Required: Any College Composition I course

    SS 211: THE 1960S—RESHAPING THE AMERICAN DREAM (5 Credits)

    This course will take an in-depth look at the 1960s as a significant era in American history. Adopting multiple perspectives, we will explore the societal impact of such issues as the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Vietnam War, the Countercultural, Civil Rights, and Feminist Movements, the advent of the birth control pill, and many others. Through exploring the music, political climate, and advancements in technology and medicine of this historical era, we will discover how our individual lives and society as a whole were forever changed.

    Prerequisites Required: Any college composition course

    SS 250: THE TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION—A SOCIAL SCIENTIFIC APPROACH (5 Credits)

    This is a social science survey course that will examine science and technology from a variety of social science disciplines including sociology, psychology, history, political science, anthropology, and economics. The use of science and technology has been a driving force behind all of human history, and even more so today. This course will take an interactive approach to study the relationship between humanity and technology throughout time and across the globe.

    Prerequisites Required: Any College Composition I Course

    Total Core Credits: 34
    Total Program Credits: 90

    HU 200: CRITICAL EVALUATION IN THE HUMANITIES (5 Credits)

    In this course, students will explore the impact of creative expression on cultures from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present. By studying examples from the arts and humanities, students investigate how humans have the potential to shape history. Students develop skills to evaluate and analyze forms of creative expression, and discover how to apply these skills to their career goals, community, and daily experience.

    Prerequisites Required: Any College Composition course

    HU 245: ETHICS (5 Credits)

    In this course, students develop sound ethical reasoning and judgment through the study of practical applications of ethical theories. Topics studied include ethics as it relates to business, health care, society, and the environment. Emphasis is on practical applications of ethical principles and analytical methods.

    Prerequisites Required: CM  220

    HU 250: HUMANITIES AND CULTURE (5 Credits)

    This course is a survey of human social and cultural life through an introduction to humanist theories and historical subject matter. Beginning with village settlement and the rise of cities and ending with the development of modern nations, students study the expression of human ideas and traditions through material and nonmaterial culture. Through readings and discussions, students are introduced to humanist studies and learn to appreciate cultural continuity and change as defining characteristics of the human experience.

    Total Core Credits: 34
    Total Program Credits: 90

    Major

    NU 300: PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP TRANSITIONS (6 Credits)

    This course will facilitate the transition of the registered nurse into a professional nursing leadership role and introduce the major components of leadership that are part of the Kaplan University School of Nursing program. This course builds upon the previous knowledge and experience of the RN and is required prior to the student's enrollment in any other nursing course. The student will examine personal values and goals along with professional roles to explore nursing leadership and create a professional development plan. Topics covered in the course include professional nursing roles, culture and values for community care, leadership, and research.

    Prerequisites Required: Admission to the program

    Total Major Credits: 41
    Total Program Credits: 90

    NU 310: NURSING RESEARCH (6 Credits)

    This course applies the steps of the research process in order to critique a research article and to provide the knowledge for students to become proficient at producing research. Students will also construct a viable research question. They will gain the necessary skills to identify and critique the research articles from research literature and develop a plan for application to clinical practice. Students are given the opportunity to understand ethical principles by becoming a participant in a scenario that might occur when conducting research. The highlight of the course is placed on producing and evaluating nursing research.

    Prerequisites Required: MM 207 and HU 280 or equivalent, Corequisite: NU 307 or NU 333

    Total Major Credits: 41
    Total Program Credits: 90

    NU 333: PHYSICAL ASSESSMENT FOR THE PROFESSIONAL NURSE (5 Credits)

    Physical Assessment for the Professional Nurse builds on previous knowledge and skills from the sciences, humanities, and nursing. Students learn approaches to a holistic assessment of health, focusing primarily on physical assessment. Interviewing techniques required in the collection of a health history are learned. Assessment techniques of inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation are applied to each body system. Students learn to differentiate normal from abnormal assessment findings based on age, gender, and ethnicity. Proper documentation of subjective and objective assessment findings is learned.

    Prerequisites Required:

    NU 300

    Total Major Credits: 41
    Total Program Credits: 90

    NU 416: NURSING CARE OF THE OLDER ADULT (6 Credits)

    This course builds on previous knowledge and skills from the sciences, humanities, and nursing. Students learn to adapt nursing interventions to the elderly patient who might have several chronic, comorbid health conditions. Students learn to assess the impact of physical, mental, functional, and social situations on the quality of life of the elderly person. Common medical conditions are explored in depth, focusing specifically on the risks to the elderly and interventions to prevent negative geriatric syndromes and promote quality outcomes. Interdisciplinary models of care are discussed as a means to provide seamless geriatric care.

    Prerequisites Required: NU 300

    Total Major Credits: 41
    Total Program Credits: 90

    NU 420: LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT IN THE CHANGING HEALTH CARE ENVIRONMENT (6 Credits)

    Nurses must be able to apply leadership concepts and skills and decision making in the provision of high-quality nursing care in an ever-changing, global health care environment. This course will prepare students to understand organizational and systems leadership, quality improvement, a culture of safety, and how these impact patient outcomes. A focus will be on the development of leadership skills that emphasize ethical and critical decision making, effective communication and intradisciplinary collaboration, and the promotion of a professional practice environment.

    Prerequisites Required:

    NU 300

    Total Major Credits: 41
    Total Program Credits: 90

    NU 450: PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING—POPULATION-CENTERED HEALTH CARE IN THE COMMUNITY (6 Credits)

    This course integrates and applies the major concepts of previous nursing courses by investigating the differences between the delivery of nursing care to individuals and nursing care directed toward communities and populations. Topics include the public health principles of epidemiology, genomic theory, chronic disease, drug and alcohol abuse, and communicable diseases. The ways in which nursing informatics plays a role regarding the types of records kept in community and public health agencies will also be explored. In addition, students will study the career options open to the public health nurse such as home health, hospice, occupational health nurse, forensics, disaster management, case management, school nursing, and community nurse leader.

    Prerequisites Required:

    NU 420

    Total Major Credits: 41
    Total Program Credits: 90

    NU 499: BACHELOR'S CAPSTONE IN NURSING (6 Credits)

    This course represents the culmination of the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program and is an opportunity for students to demonstrate what they have learned over the course of study. Students will apply the nursing process in a health care setting and, in the process of doing so, integrate essential concepts from each course in the program. The goal of each capstone project is to improve patient care delivery or leadership/management activity at the health care setting.

    Prerequisites Required: NU 450 or concurrent enrollment in NU 450 and HU 280 or concurrent enrollment in HU 280; last term or permission of the Dean

    Total Major Credits: 41
    Total Program Credits: 90

    Electives

    OPEN ELECTIVES (15 Credits)

    Total Electives Credits: 15
    Total Program Credits: 90

    Students who have not met prerequisite requirements or state-specific general education requirements may need to complete more than the required 180 quarter credit hours to fulfill degree plan requirements. Students who are interested in continuing on to pursue Kaplan University’s Master of Science in Nursing should consider the RN-to-MSN option where students can take graduate-level courses in place of open electives.

    Prior Diploma or Certificate

    PRIOR DIPLOMA/CERTIFICATE: NURSING (50 Credits)

    Total Prior Diploma or Certificate Credits: 50
    Total Program Credits: 130

    Prerequisites

    CM 107: COLLEGE COMPOSITION I (5 Credits)

    Students will learn how to communicate effectively in their professional field using various writing styles. Students will also identify and further develop their own writing process. Grammar and mechanics will be reviewed, helping students focus on the areas that will improve their writing.

    Prerequisites Required: Any Academic Strategies course or any Eight Skills of the Effective Student course

    Total Prerequisites Credits: 20
    Total Program Credits: 130

    CM 220: COLLEGE COMPOSITION II (5 Credits)

    This course helps students apply research and critical thinking skills to develop effective arguments. Students will create professional writings, incorporating post-draft revision strategies, working constructively with colleagues.

    Prerequisites Required: Any College Composition I course

    Total Prerequisites Credits: 20
    Total Program Credits: 130

    MM 212: COLLEGE ALGEBRA (5 Credits)

    This course covers topics of algebra, including linear functions, equations, and inequalities, systems of equations in two variables, polynomial functions, rational and radical equations and inequalities, exponential and logarithmic functions, ratios, proportions, variation, and graphing.

    Total Prerequisites Credits: 20
    Total Program Credits: 130

    PS 124: INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY (5 Credits)

    This course provides a broad introduction to the field of psychology, one of the social sciences. Students will be introduced to a range of topics that offer insight into human thought and actions, including what motivate us to study human behavior, ethical decisions, problem solving, and theories on memory, learning, intelligence, and personality. This course will highlight the use of critical thinking and the application of the concepts. In addition, it will draw on practical psychological concepts related to students' personal and professional relationships.

    Total Prerequisites Credits: 20
    Total Program Credits: 130

    Core

    CS 204: PROFESSIONAL PRESENCE (3 Credits)

    This course introduces students to multidisciplinary techniques and concepts pertinent to lifelong career development and professionalism. Students explore career planning as a strategy and professionalism as a method in order to pursue employment interests and career goals. Concepts include various professional communication skills appropriate for the global workplace, interpersonal relationship management, professional behavior, financial decision making, marketability, and using proper technologies to manage professional identities. 

    Total Core Credits: 34
    Total Program Credits: 130

    HU 280: BIOETHICS (5 Credits)

    In this course, students develop and apply sound ethical reasoning and judgment to important issues in health care. Topics studied include access to health care, medical privacy, end-of-life care, genetic screening, and emerging genetic technologies. Emphasis is on practical applications of ethical principles and analytic methods.

    Prerequisites Required: Any College Composition I course

    Total Core Credits: 34
    Total Program Credits: 130

    MM 207: STATISTICS (5 Credits)

    This course serves as an introduction to collecting, organizing and summarizing, and analyzing data using statistical software. Topics include basic terminology, measurement, sampling procedures, graphical and numerical descriptions of data, basic probability, and making inferences from a sample to the population. Statistical software is provided in the course and extensive use of that software is required. The course focuses on “thinking with” statistics rather than “computing” statistics.

    Total Core Credits: 34
    Total Program Credits: 130

    SC 246: FUNDAMENTALS OF MICROBIOLOGY (5 Credits)

    Fundamentals of Microbiology will review basic microbial cell structure, function, and genetics. The role of microorganisms and their affect on humans and the environment will also be explained. Aspects of medical and public health will be emphasized, as will bacterial and viral diseases, parasites, immunology, and epidemiology. Course material and labs are directly relevant to studies in health sciences, biological sciences, nursing, and genetics.

    Total Core Credits: 34
    Total Program Credits: 130

    SC 435: GENETICS (6 Credits)

    This course explores the molecular basis of genetics as applied to human health, including developmental genetics, immunogenetics, and cancer genetics. Using case studies, students learn the role of dominant and recessive genes in various diseases and the importance of genetic counseling. In addition, students will discuss gene-mapping methodologies and ethical issues in the context of clinical genetics.

    Total Core Credits: 34
    Total Program Credits: 130

    SS 236: PEOPLE, POWER, AND POLITICS-AN INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN GOVERNMENT (5 Credits)

    The purpose of this introductory-level American government course is to provide students with crucial knowledge about how government works and about how they, as individual citizens, fit within that system. Focus is on the rights and obligations of citizens under the democratic political system established under the U.S. Constitution; the branches and levels of government; and the role of the media. This fundamental knowledge combined with critical thinking skills will be valuable personally and professionally.

    Prerequisites Required: Any College Composition I course

    SS 211: THE 1960S—RESHAPING THE AMERICAN DREAM (5 Credits)

    This course will take an in-depth look at the 1960s as a significant era in American history. Adopting multiple perspectives, we will explore the societal impact of such issues as the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Vietnam War, the Countercultural, Civil Rights, and Feminist Movements, the advent of the birth control pill, and many others. Through exploring the music, political climate, and advancements in technology and medicine of this historical era, we will discover how our individual lives and society as a whole were forever changed.

    Prerequisites Required: Any college composition course

    SS 250: THE TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION—A SOCIAL SCIENTIFIC APPROACH (5 Credits)

    This is a social science survey course that will examine science and technology from a variety of social science disciplines including sociology, psychology, history, political science, anthropology, and economics. The use of science and technology has been a driving force behind all of human history, and even more so today. This course will take an interactive approach to study the relationship between humanity and technology throughout time and across the globe.

    Prerequisites Required: Any College Composition I Course

    Total Core Credits: 34
    Total Program Credits: 130

    HU 200: CRITICAL EVALUATION IN THE HUMANITIES (5 Credits)

    In this course, students will explore the impact of creative expression on cultures from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present. By studying examples from the arts and humanities, students investigate how humans have the potential to shape history. Students develop skills to evaluate and analyze forms of creative expression, and discover how to apply these skills to their career goals, community, and daily experience.

    Prerequisites Required: Any College Composition course

    HU 245: ETHICS (5 Credits)

    In this course, students develop sound ethical reasoning and judgment through the study of practical applications of ethical theories. Topics studied include ethics as it relates to business, health care, society, and the environment. Emphasis is on practical applications of ethical principles and analytical methods.

    Prerequisites Required: CM  220

    HU 250: HUMANITIES AND CULTURE (5 Credits)

    This course is a survey of human social and cultural life through an introduction to humanist theories and historical subject matter. Beginning with village settlement and the rise of cities and ending with the development of modern nations, students study the expression of human ideas and traditions through material and nonmaterial culture. Through readings and discussions, students are introduced to humanist studies and learn to appreciate cultural continuity and change as defining characteristics of the human experience.

    Total Core Credits: 34
    Total Program Credits: 130

    Major

    NU 300: PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP TRANSITIONS (6 Credits)

    This course will facilitate the transition of the registered nurse into a professional nursing leadership role and introduce the major components of leadership that are part of the Kaplan University School of Nursing program. This course builds upon the previous knowledge and experience of the RN and is required prior to the student's enrollment in any other nursing course. The student will examine personal values and goals along with professional roles to explore nursing leadership and create a professional development plan. Topics covered in the course include professional nursing roles, culture and values for community care, leadership, and research.

    Prerequisites Required: Admission to the program

    Total Major Credits: 41
    Total Program Credits: 130

    NU 310: NURSING RESEARCH (6 Credits)

    This course applies the steps of the research process in order to critique a research article and to provide the knowledge for students to become proficient at producing research. Students will also construct a viable research question. They will gain the necessary skills to identify and critique the research articles from research literature and develop a plan for application to clinical practice. Students are given the opportunity to understand ethical principles by becoming a participant in a scenario that might occur when conducting research. The highlight of the course is placed on producing and evaluating nursing research.

    Prerequisites Required: MM 207 and HU 280 or equivalent, Corequisite: NU 307 or NU 333

    Total Major Credits: 41
    Total Program Credits: 130

    NU 333: PHYSICAL ASSESSMENT FOR THE PROFESSIONAL NURSE (5 Credits)

    Physical Assessment for the Professional Nurse builds on previous knowledge and skills from the sciences, humanities, and nursing. Students learn approaches to a holistic assessment of health, focusing primarily on physical assessment. Interviewing techniques required in the collection of a health history are learned. Assessment techniques of inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation are applied to each body system. Students learn to differentiate normal from abnormal assessment findings based on age, gender, and ethnicity. Proper documentation of subjective and objective assessment findings is learned.

    Prerequisites Required:

    NU 300

    Total Major Credits: 41
    Total Program Credits: 130

    NU 416: NURSING CARE OF THE OLDER ADULT (6 Credits)

    This course builds on previous knowledge and skills from the sciences, humanities, and nursing. Students learn to adapt nursing interventions to the elderly patient who might have several chronic, comorbid health conditions. Students learn to assess the impact of physical, mental, functional, and social situations on the quality of life of the elderly person. Common medical conditions are explored in depth, focusing specifically on the risks to the elderly and interventions to prevent negative geriatric syndromes and promote quality outcomes. Interdisciplinary models of care are discussed as a means to provide seamless geriatric care.

    Prerequisites Required: NU 300

    Total Major Credits: 41
    Total Program Credits: 130

    NU 420: LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT IN THE CHANGING HEALTH CARE ENVIRONMENT (6 Credits)

    Nurses must be able to apply leadership concepts and skills and decision making in the provision of high-quality nursing care in an ever-changing, global health care environment. This course will prepare students to understand organizational and systems leadership, quality improvement, a culture of safety, and how these impact patient outcomes. A focus will be on the development of leadership skills that emphasize ethical and critical decision making, effective communication and intradisciplinary collaboration, and the promotion of a professional practice environment.

    Prerequisites Required:

    NU 300

    Total Major Credits: 41
    Total Program Credits: 130

    NU 450: PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING—POPULATION-CENTERED HEALTH CARE IN THE COMMUNITY (6 Credits)

    This course integrates and applies the major concepts of previous nursing courses by investigating the differences between the delivery of nursing care to individuals and nursing care directed toward communities and populations. Topics include the public health principles of epidemiology, genomic theory, chronic disease, drug and alcohol abuse, and communicable diseases. The ways in which nursing informatics plays a role regarding the types of records kept in community and public health agencies will also be explored. In addition, students will study the career options open to the public health nurse such as home health, hospice, occupational health nurse, forensics, disaster management, case management, school nursing, and community nurse leader.

    Prerequisites Required:

    NU 420

    Total Major Credits: 41
    Total Program Credits: 130

    NU 499: BACHELOR'S CAPSTONE IN NURSING (6 Credits)

    This course represents the culmination of the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program and is an opportunity for students to demonstrate what they have learned over the course of study. Students will apply the nursing process in a health care setting and, in the process of doing so, integrate essential concepts from each course in the program. The goal of each capstone project is to improve patient care delivery or leadership/management activity at the health care setting.

    Prerequisites Required: NU 450 or concurrent enrollment in NU 450 and HU 280 or concurrent enrollment in HU 280; last term or permission of the Dean

    Total Major Credits: 41
    Total Program Credits: 130

    Electives

    OPEN ELECTIVES (55 Credits)

    Total Electives Credits: 55
    Total Program Credits: 130

    Students who have not met prerequisite requirements or state-specific general education requirements may need to complete more than the required 180 quarter credit hours to fulfill degree plan requirements. Students who are interested in continuing on to pursue Kaplan University’s Master of Science in Nursing should consider the RN-to-MSN option where students can take graduate-level courses in place of open electives.

    Tuition & Fees: Prior Associate's Degree Track

    The 25% tuition reduction applies only to international students living outside of the United States. This discount does not apply to military students. Please check with your advisor to see if you are eligible. 

    The 25% tuition reduction applies only to international students living outside of the United States. This discount does not apply to military students. Please check with your advisor to see if you are eligible. 

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  • * Kaplan University cannot guarantee employment or career advancement.

    † Kaplan University is regionally accredited by The Higher Learning Commission (HLC) and a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA). The Bachelor of Science in Nursing program is nationally accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) and is approved by the Iowa Board of Nursing. 

    ‡ While many of Kaplan University's degree programs are designed to prepare graduates to pursue continued bachelor-, graduate- or doctorate-level education, the University cannot guarantee that students will be granted admission to any programs. 

    § Average completion time based on a full-time schedule. Programs will take longer for part-time students to complete. The number of required credits may vary depending on individual state education requirements, which could affect how long it will take to complete the program.

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