The curriculum in pre-nursing meets the minimum academic requirements for application to the traditional Bachelor of Science degree program in nursing offered by the School of Nursing at VCU.

Admission to and satisfactory completion of the one-year preparation program does not constitute admission to the professional program at VCU. In the fall of the year preceding the year of desired admission, the student must apply separately to the professional program in the School of Nursing through the VCU Office of Undergraduate Admissions, P.O. Box 980632, Richmond, VA 23298-0632.

First year	First semester	Second semester
BIOL 101 Biological Concepts	4	-
BIOL 205 Basic Human Anatomy	-	4
BIOL 217 Principles of Nutrition	-	3
MATH 131 Introduction to Contemporary Math or MATH 141 Algebra with Applications or STAT 208 Statistical Thinking or STAT 210 Basic Practice of Statistics	3	-
PSYC 101 Introduction to Psychology	4	-
SOCY 101 General Sociology	3	-
UNIV 111 and 112 Focused Inquiry I and II	3	3
Laboratory science (see worksheet for choices)*	-	4
Total	17	14

* If high school chemistry (with laboratory) with a grade of “C” or better has not been completed, one semester of chemistry with laboratory must be taken. If high school chemistry with a grade of C or better has been completed, choose from: BIOL 201 and BIOZ 201L, BIOL 103 and, CHEM 110 and CHEZ 110, PHYS 101 and PHYZ 101L, or PHYS 107.