Credit Hour and Course Load Allocation

Mount Carmel College of Nursing generally ascribes to the Carnegie definition of a semester credit hour, which stipulates that one semester credit hour be awarded for fifteen sessions of 50-minutes duration in classroom lecture-recitation each requiring two hours of outside preparation by the student. Click here for information on graduate credit hour allocation of general education, clinical nursing, and non-clinical nursing courses.

Semester Load

The semester hour is the basis of credit at Mount Carmel College of Nursing. To complete the BSN degree within four academic years, the traditional program student will take an average 15-18 hours of credit per semester. Graduate students will take on average 6-12 semester hours.  Semester loads of more than 19 hours of credit require the permission of the Registrar. 

*For Second Degree Accelerated Program students, they must take the courses in the sequence they are offered.