Blackburn College Admission Requirements

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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
  

Transferring your credits
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
  

Pre-Nursing: 

• 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.
  

Medical Laboratory Science: 
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