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Fall 2025 Health Sciences Catalog

Accelerated Baccalaureate Program (ABP, Nursing)

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On-Site, One Year

The Accelerated Baccalaureate Program is designed for students who have already completed a bachelor’s degree, either at the State University of New York at Stony Brook or another comparable institution. The concentrated nursing curriculum leads to a Bachelor of Science degree with a major in nursing. Graduates of the program are eligible to sit for the NCLEX-RN exam.

This second bachelor’s degree draws on the prerequisite courses from the humanities and the natural and social sciences as a means of assisting the student to use theory and utilize nursing process to provide health promotion, health maintenance and restoration of diverse populations of patients. Students are provided learning experiences focused on individuals, families, groups and communities. In addition, students are exposed to various delivery models of professional nursing and health care. Stony Brook University Hospital is utilized as a clinical site along with various other settings.

Admission Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree
  • Minimum cumulative GPA 2.80 and grades of C or higher in the following pre-admission courses:

Pre-Admission Required Courses

  • English Composition Credits: 3 credits
  • Microbiology/Lab Credits: 4 credits
  • Anatomy & Physiology I/Lab Credits: 4 credits
  • Anatomy & Physiology II/Lab Credits: 4 credits
  • Chemistry Credits: 3 credits
  • Statistics Credits: 3 credits
  • Lifespan/Developmental Psychology Credits: 3 credits

Graduation Requirements

Professional Socialization

Clinical Nursing

Honors

Degree candidates may receive school or departmental awards for superior performance upon the recommendation and review by the School of Nursing Awards Committee.

Dean’s List

Each semester, part-time students must have completed at least six credits of letter-grade work in order to be considered.

Degrees With Distinction

School of Nursing undergraduate students are eligible for Degrees with Distinction. Degrees with Distinction are conferred on candidates for the Bachelor of Science degree who have completed at least 55 credits at Stony Brook, excluding special examination and waiver credit, and who attain the requisite grade point average. Students in the Registered Nurse to Baccalaureate Program or Registered Nurse to Master of Science Program who entered the program prior to 2022, must follow the policy in place during their entry term into the program. The levels of distinction are suma cum laude, magna cum laude, and cum laude, and constitute approximately the 98th percentile, the 93rd percentile and the 85th percentile, respectively.

The grade point average cutoffs for the three levels of distinction are: summa cum laude, 3.80; magna cum laude, 3.70; and cum laude, 3.60.

Attainment of a degree with distinction is indicated on the student’s diploma and permanent academic record.

Total Credits: 69

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