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WNC REGIONALLY INCREASING BACCALAUREATE NURSES (WNC RIBN)
ADMISSION TO WNC RIBN
Thank you for your interest in the WNC RIBN Nursing option. Students applying to WNC RIBN must meet dual admission requirements set forth collaboratively by SCC and WCU.
WNC RIBN will accept applications through January 31 for the RIBN class that begins fall semester. For more information about applying to RIBN, please contact the RIBN advisor.
Admission to WNC RIBN is highly competitive. All students must meet the following minimum requirements to be eligible to apply:
• General acceptance to Western Carolina University: requires if less than 24 years of
age that the student has taken these courses—4 units of English; 2 units of social studies—one being US History; 4 units of math—Algebra 1, Algebra 2, Geometry, and an advanced math beyond Algebra 2; 3 units of science—such as, life science, physical science, chemistry, biology— must have taken one science with a lab; 2 units of a language (must be 2 units of the same language) other than English.
• ACT score
• Cumulative GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale. If a student has less than 20 credit hours of
college coursework, then this requirement will default to the high school unweighted
GPA.
• All applicants to WNC RIBN must take the ATI TEAS (Test of Essential Academic
Skills). Students may take the ATI TEAS after the WNC RIBN Advisor has determined eligibility to apply. RIBN applicants must score 70 or higher on the ATI TEAS examination. For more information about the TEAS, please visit: www.atitesting.com/ Solutions/PreNursingSchool/TEAS.aspx
• All applicants ll out an SCC application and meet with the SCC RIBN Advisor before January 31 of the year they desire fall entry into the program..
WNC RIBN will dually admit and enroll you at Southwestern Community College and Western Carolina University and provide you with a four year, seamless associate to baccalaureate nursing education. Unlike in a transitional BSN program, you will have the opportunity to begin working as an RN at the end of your third year in this option and pay mostly community college tuition rates.
WNC RIBN makes an associate and bachelor’s degree in nursing both affordable and accessible. The rst three years of WNC RIBN will be hosted on SCC’s campus with one class completed online through WCU every third semester years 1 through 3. Upon successful completion of the rst three years, you will then nish your fourth year of classes through WCU.
Students are required to:
1. Hold a documented, current, unrestricted credential as a Nurse Aide I (NAI) from the
North Carolina Nurse Aide Registry and the Division of Health Service Regulation or
other health care current licensure.
2. Maintain dual admission and continued enrollment at both SCC and WCU by completing
at least one WCU course every semester years 1 through 3.
3. Maintain a GPA of 2.5 or greater to progress in the RIBN option.
4. Maintain full-time enrollment each semester if a recipient of the NC Forgivable
Education Loan Program.
5. Home school will be SCC years 1, 2, and 3.
6. Year 1: enroll in general education courses at SCC and WCU as advised by the RIBN
Nursing Student Advisor
7. Year 2 and 3: enroll in Associate Degree Nursing courses at SCC and continue
enrollment in WCU courses as advised by RIBN Nursing Student Advisor.
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