Bachelor in Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse (Bachelor's)

For Bachelor in Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse (Bachelor's), tuition is 37,400 USD per year.

The nursing major at Ferrum College is a prelicensure Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program. It is a residential program developed from national standards of baccalaureate nursing education, incorporating quality and safety frameworks. The program prepares graduates to provide nursing care through the application of knowledge, theory, evidence, and clinical reasoning.

Study areas include NUR 300 Foundations of Professional Nursing Practice, NUR 305C Foundations Clinical, NUR 315L Foundations & Pharm Skills Lab.

Upon admission to Ferrum College, students must declare prelicensure BSN as their major.

For international students, tuition is above the median for US programmes. The institution admits about 100% of applicants.

Ferrum College occupies 700 acres in Ferrum, Virginia, in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The campus includes a working farm, hiking trails, and the Blue Ridge Institute and Museum, which is dedicated to Virginia folklore. Students can also take part in sports, clubs, outdoor activities, Greek Life, and the arts. The setting offers access to both campus activities and the region’s Appalachian culture.

Academically, Ferrum offers more than 50 areas of study and combines classroom learning with hands-on experience and personal guidance. Its environmental studies program was among the first of its kind in the country. Music, theatre, Appalachian studies, folklore, and environmental learning are visible parts of the College’s academic and cultural work. The Appalachian Music program, Orchestra Appalachia, Jack Tale Players, and Blue Ridge Dinner Theatre connect students with regional traditions and performance.

Ferrum’s history is closely tied to Appalachian folklore. The Blue Ridge Institute and Museum houses the James Taylor Adams Collection, which contains thousands of pages of folklore from the Virginia Writers’ Project. The Jack Tale Players began dramatizing regional folktales in 1975 and marked their fiftieth anniversary in 2025. International students should know that Ferrum offers a small-scale campus environment where individual faculty support, outdoor activities, cultural programs, and athletics are central to student life. Panther Athletics competes in NCAA Division II and Conference Carolinas.