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Blackburn College Admission Requirements - scholar - 10-31-2017
The specific minimum requirements for transfer students include:
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Minimum 2.0 cumulative college GPA and good academic standing
- Official high school and college transcripts
Blackburn accepts coursework from all regionally accredited institutions, including almost all community colleges and four-year colleges and universities.
- Blackburn accepts up to 92 hours of transfer credit
- Each transcript will be evaluated individually for transferable credit
- You must complete the final 30 hours of your degree at Blackburn
- Blackburn does not accept proficiencies earned at other institutions
- Blackburn maintains a 2 + 2 articulation agreement with Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Goldfarb School of Nursing, St. Louis MO. Students pursue a two year course of study and then transfer to Goldfarb School of Nursing for two years of work leading to a BS in Nursing. Students may also pursue any bachelor’s degree from Blackburn while taking pre-nursing classes and then complete a one-year accelerated program with Goldfarb School of Nursing and also receive a BS in nursing degree.
- Through a 3 + 2 articulation agreement with St. John’s College of Nursing in Springfield, IL., Blackburn College students obtain a Bachelor of Arts in biology from Blackburn and a Bachelor of Science in nursing from St. John’s College of Nursing.
Blackburn offers a 3 + 1 program in medical laboratory science where students complete their fourth year at one of the following Blackburn approved hospitals for a twelve month program of both laboratory theory and laboratory experience courses:
- John’s Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis, Springfield IL
- Good Samaritan Hospital, Vincennes IN
- OSF Healthcare System at St. Francis Medical Center, Peoria IL