Nursing - Dual/Joint with Queensborough Community College (AAS to BS)

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Academic Director: Margaret Reilly
CUNY School of Professional Studies
101 West 31^stStreet, 7^th Floor
New York, NY 10001
Email Contact: Nursing@sps.cuny.edu

The Program

This dual/joint degree program in nursing with Queensborough Community College (QCC) and the CUNY SPS enables qualified students enrolled in the QCC AAS in Nursing program to seamlessly transition to the BS in Nursing at CUNY SPS. Students in this dual/joint program are guided in the selection of courses by an advisor in order to efficiently progress through the general education and nursing program requirements.

Admission Criteria

To be eligible for the CUNY SPS-QCC Dual/Joint Program, applicants must:

Be enrolled at Queensborough Community College;
Have completed a Pre-clinical sequence at QCC with a minimum grade point average of 3.0, and;
Have taken the National League for Nursing Pre-admission RN exam.

Application Deadlines

The application process for the QCC-SPS Dual/Joint Program is initiated at the Nursing Department at Queensborough Community College. For more information, contact Tina Bayer at tbayer@qcc.cuny.edu or 718-631-6080, or visit QCC’s website www.qcc.cuny.edu

Program Requirements

120 credits are required for the online Bachelor’s Degree program in Nursing, broken down as follows:

General Education : 30 credits required (12 credits common core, 18 credits flexible core)
A.A.S. in Nursing: 45 credits. To view the requirements for the A.A.S. portion of this dual/joint program, visit the Queensborough Community College website.
BS in Nursing
- 32 credits from the major
- 13 credits electives