Your Tuition Explained
Learn how transfer credits, scholarships and special tuition rates reduce tuition costs.
Learn Through Practice, Not Exams*
Learn skills through assignments and experiential learning, not tests.
*Except those taking MATH 225
Maximize Your Transfer Credits
Transfer up to 75% of required credits for the online RN to BSN option.
Study on Your Time With 100% Online Coursework
With a direct care component, so you can balance earning your degree and your job and personal responsibilities.
Get Practicum Placement Support
Ensures you successfully secure any needed practicum sites and a preceptor to support you as you complete your RN to BSN degree.
Compare Your RN to BSN and MSN Degree Options
Explore the differences between BSN, MSN and accelerated MSN options
RN to BSN Degree Option
Features 100% online coursework plus a direct care component that fits your busy schedule.
- BSN degree earned
- No specialization
- Receive 77 proficiency credits*
*To receive 77 proficiency cr, students need to be an RN with an associate degree or diploma in nursing and a current, active and unrestricted RN license
RN to MSN Degree Option
Enables RNs to advance their education while being cost- and time-effective.
- BSN and MSN degrees earned
- Choose from nine MSN specializations
- Receive 77 proficiency credits*
*For BSN only
Accelerated RN to MSN Degree Option
RNs can pursue a direct path to their MSN.
- MSN degree earned
- Earn your MSN in as few as 10 months
- Personal faculty mentor
Experience a Nursing School Built Around Your Success
As a busy working nurse, you need a program that supports you. That’s why our RN to BSN Option has 100% online coursework with a direct care component, online resource tools, and faculty who are ready to help.
RN to BSN Support Explained
From responsive faculty members to online tools, tutoring, and other resources, we work hard to help our RN to BSN students achieve success.
RN to BSN Curriculum
Coursework You Can Apply Immediately in Your Nursing Practice
Ready to take your nursing education to the next level? Our online RN to BSN option is designed to help improve your nursing skills.
Personalized Pathway Extensions
You have the flexibility to decide when to turn in eligible assignments through Week 6, helping you balance school, work, and personal obligations.
Personal Faculty Mentor
Receive individualized, relationship-based support to help you stay engaged, confident, and on track through meaningful check-ins, support through academic challenges, and more.
Practical, Real-World Application
Apply what you’re learning directly and immediately–you’ll learn from RN to BSN faculty with an average of more than 14 years of higher education experience and more than 24 years of nursing experience.
What to Expect in the RN-BSN Program
Get the structure, support, and expertise you need as you earn your BSN. This option gives you faculty-led learning with guided weekly engagement, relevant assignments, and real-world application of what you learn. You’ll build real skills rooted in compassionate care through our patient-centric curriculum.
Key Learning Concepts
Build expertise in evidence-based practice, leadership, quality improvement, cultural humility, and population health. Our patient-centric curriculum prepares you to champion compassionate care throughout your healthcare organization and community.
How You'll Learn
Experience structured lessons with regular faculty engagement, personalized feedback, and real-world application like building patient education strategies or using digital health technologies. Professors who, on average, have over 24 years of nursing experience coach and mentor you as you connect evidence-based concepts to your current clinical role.
How You'll Apply These Concepts
Apply what you learn through case studies, health promotion planning, and evidence-based analysis. Compassionate care is woven throughout our curriculum to ensure you graduate ready to make a difference in healthcare.
Interactive & Reflective Assignments
Participate in discussion boards, complete reflective journals, analyze your leadership style, and explore implicit bias. These assignments deepen your professional growth and help you connect course concepts to your nursing practice.
Hands-on Practical Assignments
Engage with virtual patient simulations, create health education materials, conduct community assessments, and design quality improvement projects. The RN-BSN option has zero tests (except in MATH 225). Instead, you’ll demonstrate skills through applied assignments.
Scholarly & Evidence-Based Work
Develop research questions, critique studies, and write papers on applying evidence in practice. Learn to find, evaluate, and apply current research to help improve patient outcomes and care delivery.
Capstone Experience
Synthesize your learning by identifying a practice problem, conducting evidence reviews, and creating an implementation plan. Present a change project on a nurse-led intervention and demonstrate your preparation for BSN-level practice.
Practicum Experience
Apply community health principles through mentored field experience, including 12 hours over three days on site in a community health setting—allowing you to develop strong competencies in community, public, and population health. If you can’t find a site for your practicum, our Practicum Commitment® means that we will support you in finding a site and preceptor, so you can have a meaningful experience.
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What Sets Chamberlain Apart
Chamberlain’s guided learning experience includes the full support of instructors who, on average, have over 24 years of nursing experience and over 14 years of higher education experience. Our expert educators provide guidance, personalized feedback, and structured engagement—so you won’t be learning on your own. See how we compare:
| Chamberlain RN-BSN | Self-Paced Programs | |
|---|---|---|
| Faculty Support | Regular faculty engagement with 24-hour response times. Regular touchpoints and personalized feedback through Chamberlain Care®. | Faculty interaction on request. Students teach themselves through self-guided modules with support available when needed. |
| Other Support Resources | Comprehensive support through tutoring, writing center, library services, technology resources, and Practicum Commitment® team. | Support is treated as a service to facilitate self-directed learning rather than an ongoing proactive relationship. |
| Schedule | Eight-week courses with flexible deadlines. Complete work anytime with 24/7 platform access while staying on pace. | No structured timelines. Students may risk falling behind or losing motivation. |
| Time to Complete Degree | Complete in as few as 10 months.* Structured pacing helps you progress consistently toward graduation, with flexibility built in when you need it. | Completion times vary depending on individual progress. Without structured deadlines to maintain momentum, completion time may take much longer for some students. |
| Teaching Philosophy | Faculty-led, guided learning with structured support, weekly engagement, and real-world application. | Students complete coursework on their own and submit assessments when they’re ready. |
| Structured Flexibility | For qualifying assignments students can use the Personalized Pathway Extension option and turn in assignments through Week 6. This gives students structure to keep pace with greater flexibility, helping them stay engaged, successful, and on track throughout the program. | With no set deadlines, students may deprioritize coursework when life gets busy. |
*Time to completion of 10 months based on full-time enrollment, 77 proficiency credits, and the maximum 15 additional transfer credits. Time to completion varies by student.
- Practicum readiness tools
- Streamlined site and preceptor contracting
- • Dedicated Advising & Retention Specialists
Your RN to BSN Practicum
Secure Your Practicum Site With Our Support
The Practicum Commitment is designed to ensure you receive the essential practicum experience needed on your path to completing your RN-BSN option.
To support you in finding a practicum site for your NR-436 course, our Experiential Learning Team provides resources throughout the process, including coaching sessions and tips on how to approach a potential site.
- Build on your RN experience at a university with 135+ years of extraordinary care.
- Save on your BSN tuition through our network of 11,000+ healthcare employer and association partners.
- Expand your professional network alongside more than 185,000 students, faculty and alumni nursing peers and alumni.
| Curriculum Component | Requirements | Cost | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
Base Tuition | 30 course credits | $635 per credit hour | $19,050 |
September Success Grant 35% off tuition for September start only | ($6,668) | ||
Net Tuition |
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| $12,382 |
Fees | $1,700 | ||
Your Cost | $14,082* | ||
*Represents maximum number of 15 transfer credits and a 35% tuition savings. Does not include estimated costs for books and supplies. Your actual total program time and costs may vary. The September Success Grant is available for a limited time and subject to change at any time. See Grants and Scholarship Guide for more information.
| Curriculum Component | Requirements | Cost | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
Base Tuition | 45 course credits | $635 per credit hour | $28,575 |
September Success Grant 35% off tuition for September start only | ($10,001) | ||
Net Tuition |
|
| $18,574 |
Fees | $2,600 | ||
Your Cost | $21,174* | ||
*Represents full program of 45 course credits and a 35% tuition savings. Does not include estimated costs for books and supplies. Your actual total program time and costs may vary. The September Success Grant is available for a limited time and subject to change at any time. See Grants and Scholarship Guide for more information.
Did you know? Most of Chamberlain’s scholarship and grants require no applications. An Enrollment Representative will automatically determine your eligibility.
September Success Grant
Save up to 35% on tuition.
DAISY Honoree Scholarship
Save 5% on tuition.
Covista Foundation Scholarship Program
To learn more or apply, see all Covista Foundation Scholarship Program scholarships.
Proudly Accredited
Accreditation and Approvals
Chamberlain University is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) (www.hlcommission.org), an institutional accreditation agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
The baccalaureate degree program in nursing, master’s degree program in nursing, Doctor of Nursing Practice program, and post-graduate APRN certificate programs at Chamberlain University are accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE).
The Chamberlain University Doctor of Nursing Practice Program (delivered via distance education) holds continuing accreditation from the National League for Nursing Commission for Nursing Education Accreditation (NLN CNEA), located at 2600 Virginia Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20037.
Chamberlain has also earned approvals in most states.
For a complete list, view our authorizations or approvals in your state.
Chamberlain University confers degrees earned online from its main campus in Addison, Illinois.
The DAISY Foundation
As The DAISY Foundation’s Founding Educational Partner, Chamberlain is proud to be the No. 1 awarder of student and faculty DAISY Awards, supporting nurses with scholarships, research opportunities, and career development.
National League for Nursing
Chamberlain University College of Nursing was named a Center of Excellence™ in Nursing Education by the National League for Nursing for promoting the pedagogical expertise of faculty.
The best thing about Chamberlain is definitely the flexibility in the program. You can find a program that fits you the best as far as full time, part time, online, in-person — and you can adjust it to your life so that you can be successful in both.
Angela Majied
MSN ’23, RN-BSN ’22
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