Secondary Admission Requirements
Admission to UNCG does not guarantee selection into any area of study. Some professional schools and majors have special additional admission requirements.
Freshmen: Please see the special instructions listed below for admission to programs in Dance, Interior Architecture, Music, and Nursing. For other programs with special requirements, your admission will be determined based upon your completion of required courses and academic performance at UNCG. Your advisor will assist you in planning your course of study.
Transfers: If you plan to major in any of the areas listed below, it is essential that you contact the appropriate school or department to discuss the requirements for admission to the major.
Programs with Special Requirements:
Bryan School of Business & Economics (All Programs)
Dance
All prospective Dance majors must participate in a selective admissions process.
Health Education (Department of Public Health Education)
Human Development and Family Studies
Interior Architecture
Interior Architecture has limited enrollment. Application must be made through the department.
Liberal Studies (Humanities Concentration)
Admission to the Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies online degree completion program is a two-step process. Prospective students must have a minimum of sixty transferable college credits with an overall and transferable GPA of 2.0 or better. After being accepted to UNCG, the student's transcripts are reviewed by the directors of the program and the student is accepted into the program if the requirements are satisfied.
Music
An audition is required for admission to the Music major or minor.
- Freshmen: Effective Fall 2010, incoming freshmen must have earned at least a 500 Critical Reading SAT score and at least a 500 Mathematics SAT score to declare pre-nursing as their major. For students who complete the ACT exam, a minimum composite score of 21 is required. Freshmen who are initially ineligible to declare pre-nursing as their major may change their major to pre-nursing after successful completion of 15 semester hours of coursework at UNCG with a GPA of at least 3.0. All students entering UNCG from high school are subject to this policy regardless of college-level credits earned in high school (i.e. - iSchool, dual enrollment, community college, or early college.) UNCG cares greatly about its students and potential students, but there is far greater interest in the pre-nursing major than the UNCG School of Nursing can provide at this time.
- Transfer students: Incoming transfer and second-degree students must have a transfer GPA of 3.0 or greater to declare pre-nursing as their major upon admission to UNCG. Pre-licensure students (students interested in becoming registered nurses) must be formally admitted to the School of Nursing BSN program, which is an upper-division major. Admission to UNCG does not guarantee admission into the BSN program. Pre-nursing students must be in the process of completing all required prerequisite courses before applying to the upper division, including NUR 210 (fall only) and NUR 220 (spring only.)
- Registered Nurses interested in the RN to BSN program are not required to submit a separate application to the School of Nursing and are not subject to the transfer GPA requirement. Admission to the upper-level RN-BSN courses is based upon admission to UNCG and performance on special exams and in the 300-level courses. The curriculum for RNs is vastly different than the curriculum for pre-licensure students. If you have questions, please visit the School of Nursing at nursing.uncg.edu.
Speech Pathology & Audiology (Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders)
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