Transfer students and/or non-traditional students must meet the same College admission criteria and the Division of Nursing admission requirements and policies. Nursing courses completed at other Nursing programs will not be accepted as Nursing transfer credits. A minimum GPA of 2.8 in the most recently completed academic courses is required. Completion of a pre-Nursing examination may be required prior to progression to Nu221 Foundations of Professional Nursing. The National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) states, “Domestic and international nurses need to be proficient in written and spoken English skills� (NCSBN, 2003). Based on the recommendations of the NCSBN, all foreign born or foreign educated prospective nursing students for whom English is not their first and primary language of communication must meet one of the following English testing criteria to be eligible for admission as a student into the Division of Nursing. Prospective foreign born or foreign educated students who are exempt from this testing criteria include those who can document successful completion of at least four years of education (high school or college or a combination of the two) from a school district or degree granting college or university, approved by the United States Department of Education, where the curriculum was based on spoken English and written English. The requirements may be met through a number of internationally recognized tests of English proficiency. Based on the recommendations of NCSBN, the SVC DON requires: 1. The Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) paper-based test (PBT) with a minimum passing score of 560 (NCLEX, 2005); or 2. The Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) computerbased test (CBT) with a minimum passing score of 220 (NCLEX, 2005); or 3. The Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) Internet based test (iBT) with a minimum passing score of 84 plus a minimum spoken English score of 26 (NCLEX, 2009); or
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