Course overview
The professional undergraduate nursing degree. It prepares you to provide patient care across hospital and community settings, combining nursing science with extensive supervised clinical practice.
Duration: 4 years, including integrated clinical practice. Durations and structures can vary between institutions and under NEP 2020 frameworks.
Eligibility
Class 12 with Physics, Chemistry, Biology and English, meeting the minimum marks and age criteria set by the Indian Nursing Council and the institution.
Entrance examinations commonly used
- State or university nursing entrance tests
- NEET-UG (accepted by some institutions)
- Merit-based admission
Eligibility rules, minimum marks and accepted exams are set by regulators and each institution, and may change each year. Always check the official admission notice.
Curriculum overview
- Anatomy, physiology and nutrition
- Medical-surgical nursing
- Child health and midwifery
- Community health nursing
- Clinical postings and internship
This is a general outline. Each institution publishes its own syllabus.
Potential career pathways
- Staff nurse in hospitals
- Community health nurse
- Nursing roles abroad (subject to licensing)
- M.Sc Nursing and specialisation
- Nursing education
Career outcomes depend on many factors, including individual effort, institution, specialisation and the job market. No course guarantees a particular role or salary.
Where to study B.Sc Nursing
We work with 21 partner institutions. Programme availability changes each year, so a counsellor will confirm which partners offer B.Sc Nursing for your intake and help you compare them.
- Exclusive partnerJAIN University — Kochi CampusKochi
- Exclusive partnerIBMR BangaloreBengaluru
- Exclusive partnerAcharya Bangalore B-SchoolBengaluru
- Exclusive partnerEbenezer Group of InstitutionsBengaluru
- Exclusive partnerBanaswadi Group of InstitutionsBengaluru
Tuition fees vary by institution, programme and category. We share current figures from each institution's official fee notice during counselling.
Application requirements
Documents commonly requested at application or admission:
- Class 10 and Class 12 mark sheets and certificates
- Entrance examination scorecard, where applicable
- Transfer and migration certificates, where applicable
- Government-issued photo identification
- Recent passport-size photographs
- Category or domicile certificates, if claiming a reservation
- Medical fitness certificate
- Immunisation records, where requested
