Arizona State University offers three acute care nurse practitioner pathways plus one closely related emergency-care certificate:
- AGACNP DNP (new for Fall 2026)
- PNP-AC DNP (Acute Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner)
- PNP-AC Graduate Certificate
- ENP Graduate Certificate
Most important distinguishing feature: ASU is one of the few schools offering both adult-gerontology and pediatric acute care preparation at the doctoral level, with the pediatric track built around a Phoenix Children’s Hospital partnership.
Biggest practical trade-off: This is not a distance-friendly program. Students travel to the Downtown Phoenix campus for up to a week of orientation and then two to three more times every semester, and anyone living outside Maricopa County must find their own clinical sites and preceptors — with no placement guarantee.
Program Tracks Overview
| Program | Est. Tuition (AZ resident) | Est. Duration | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| AGACNP DNP | $60,000–$82,000 | Not published (comparable DNP tracks: 3 yrs FT / 5 yrs PT) | 86 |
| PNP-AC DNP | $60,000–$81,000 | 3 yrs full-time / 5 yrs part-time | 85 |
| PNP-AC Certificate | $13,300–$19,000 | About 1 year | 20 |
| ENP Certificate | $13,300–$15,200 | About 1 year | 16 |
Tuition figures are calculated estimates, not ASU-published program totals. See the Tuition section for method and caveats. Post-master’s applicants who transfer credit will pay considerably less than the DNP figures shown.
Quick Facts
| Program Types | Post-BSN DNP, post-MSN DNP, post-graduate APRN certificate |
| Population Focus | Adult-Gerontology Acute Care; Pediatric Acute Care; (Emergency, as an FNP add-on) |
| Format | Hybrid — online/iCourse didactic with required in-person immersions |
| Campus Visits | Up to 1 week orientation at program start, then 2–3 visits per semester, Downtown Phoenix campus |
| Clinical Hours | PNP-AC DNP: 1,170 total practicum hrs (600 must be direct patient care). AGACNP DNP: 1,125 total practicum hrs published. PNP-AC Cert: 600 direct patient care hrs. ENP Cert: 315 direct patient care hrs |
| Clinical Settings | Tertiary, emergency, and specialty pediatric settings (PNP-AC); acute, critical, and complex chronic care settings (AGACNP); rotations available in urban underserved and rural health professional shortage areas statewide |
| Clinical Placement | Arranged by ASU only for students residing in Maricopa County. Everyone else self-sources sites and preceptors; placement is not guaranteed outside Maricopa County |
| RN Experience | One year in the specialty population is preferred, not required. No ICU, ED, or critical care requirement published; no minimum RN practice-hour threshold |
| Distinctive Coursework | Two-course acute care theory sequences paired with matched practica; separate 12-credit DNP clinical residency; well-child care course in the pediatric track |
| RN/APRN Requirements | Unencumbered RN license in the practicum state plus an unencumbered Arizona or compact RN license. PNP-AC certificate requires national CPNP-PC certification; ENP certificate requires FNP licensure |
| Start Terms | Fall only (Session A/C) |
| Deadline | December 15 priority; rolling afterward if clinical placement seats remain |
| Certification | PNP-AC → PNCB acute care pediatric NP exam. AGACNP → ASU does not name the exam. ENP → AANP emergency NP exam |
| Accreditation | CCNE (BSN, MSN, DNP, post-graduate APRN certificates); Arizona State Board of Nursing approval; HLC institutional |
AGACNP DNP
Advanced Nursing Practice (Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner), DNP — 86 credits, estimated $60,000–$82,000 for Arizona residents and roughly $139,000 for non-residents in tuition alone. ASU does not publish a completion timeline for this track; comparable Edson clinical DNP specialties run three years full-time or five years part-time.
This is a new program. ASU Degree Search lists it as active beginning Fall 2026, and the page states it is not yet approved for GI Bill® benefits. It also does not yet appear on Edson College’s own DNP specialties menu, which still lists only seven concentrations. Applicants should confirm directly with the DNP program office (dnpnursing@asu.edu) that a Fall cohort is running before building an application around it.
For adult-focused nurses, this fills a real gap: until now ASU’s only adult-gerontology DNP was the primary care track, which prepares graduates for the AGPCNP exam and places students in ambulatory clinics, long-term care, and home settings.
AGACNP DNP Curriculum
The structure follows ASU’s standard DNP architecture — a doctoral core, an advanced practice core, a specialty concentration, and a capstone — with the acute care content concentrated in a paired theory-and-practicum sequence.
The advanced practice core is lifespan-general: DNP 604 (pathophysiology), DNP 605 (health assessment), and DNP 608 (pharmacotherapeutics) are the same courses taken by primary care students. Acute care specificity arrives through DNP 649 Advanced Physiology and the two-part Principles of Adult Gerontology Acute Care sequence.
Notably, the concentration also includes a health promotion course and practicum (DNP 623/624) shared with the primary care track — meaning roughly 6 of the 27 concentration credits are not acute-care-specific.
ASU does not publish dedicated courses in trauma, mechanical ventilation, rhythm interpretation, or invasive procedures for this track. The course titles describe general acute and critical illness management rather than named procedural training. Applicants who want explicit procedures coursework should ask what is embedded in DNP 662–665.
Concentration (27 credits)
- DNP 649 Advanced Physiology (3)
- DNP 662 Principles of Adult Gerontology Acute Care I: Theory (3)
- DNP 663 Principles of Adult Gerontology Acute Care I: Practicum (6)
- DNP 664 Principles of Adult Gerontology Acute Care II: Theory (3)
- DNP 665 Principles of Adult Gerontology Acute Care II: Practicum (6)
- DNP 623 Adult-Gerontology Health Promotion (3)
- DNP 624 Adult-Gerontology Health Promotion Practicum (3)
Other required coursework includes DNP 604 Advanced Human Pathophysiology (4), DNP 605 Advanced Health Assessment (3), DNP 608 Advanced Pharmacotherapeutics (3), DNP 712 Clinical Residency and Management (12), and DNP 707 Disseminating Evidence (3). A restricted elective requires either DNP 603 Health Equity and Social Justice or DNP 661 Ethics and Advanced Nursing Practice.
Full AGACNP DNP degree requirements
AGACNP DNP Clinical Requirements
ASU publishes 1,125 total practicum hours for this program. It does not separately publish a specialty direct-patient-care total — an omission that matters, because AGACNP certification bodies require a minimum number of supervised direct care hours in the population.
That published total also does not reconcile with the listed course credits. ASU’s own primary care adult-gerontology page equates 13 practicum credits with 585 clock hours (45 hours per credit). Applying that same published ratio to the AGACNP track’s 15 concentration practicum credits yields roughly 675 specialty hours, plus about 540 hours from the 12-credit DNP 712 residency — a total closer to 1,215 than 1,125. The 1,125 figure appears to be carried over from the primary care track. (This is a calculation derived from ASU’s published data, not an ASU statement.)
Placement follows the college-wide Edson policy:
- Maricopa County residents are assigned placements and should expect to travel across the county and sometimes across Arizona.
- Everyone else must identify their own sites and preceptors, subject to Edson approval before any clinical hours begin.
- The DNP program office does not guarantee placement for students outside Maricopa County.
- If faculty determine a student needs added supervision, that student must complete clinicals in the Phoenix area — regardless of where they live.
What this means: AGACNP clinical placements are among the hardest to self-source. ICU, step-down, and hospitalist services usually route students through formal academic affiliation agreements, and individual preceptors often cannot approve their own students. A nurse in Tucson, Flagstaff, or out of state should confirm site availability before accepting an offer, not after.
AGACNP DNP Admissions
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree from a regionally accredited institution
- Minimum 3.00 GPA (last 60 hours of the first bachelor’s, or an applicable master’s)
- Current unencumbered RN license in the state where practicums will occur, plus an unencumbered Arizona or compact RN license maintained throughout enrollment
- Three professional letters of recommendation, resume, goal statement, admission essay
- Faculty interview required
- Background clearance and substance screen after admission
- One year of clinical experience in the specialty population is preferred — not required
- No entrance exam
- Gap analysis for prior graduate coursework; courses must be within five years unless the applicant is a currently practicing, board-certified NP
- Up to 30 credits from a previously awarded master’s may be applied with approval
- Must reside in a state where ASU is authorized and Edson clinical placement is permitted
No ICU or critical care experience is required or even named as preferred. For a program that trains providers to stabilize critically ill adults, that is unusually permissive — an advantage for a med-surg or telemetry RN trying to break into acute care, and a caution for anyone who wants classmates and clinical expectations calibrated to prior ICU practice.
PNP-AC DNP
Advanced Nursing Practice (Acute Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner), DNP — 85 credits, estimated $60,000–$81,000 for Arizona residents and roughly $138,000 for non-residents in tuition alone. Three years full-time, five years part-time. Entry is open to BSN- or MSN-prepared nurses; post-master’s applicants may apply up to 30 prior credits.
The population focus is infants through young adults with complex acute, critical, and life-threatening illness across tertiary, emergency, and specialty settings.
PNP-AC DNP Curriculum
The curriculum splits into a 13-credit doctoral core, a 26-credit pediatric acute care concentration, 40 credits of advanced practice and doctoral coursework, electives, and a 3-credit culminating course.
One change matters for applicants comparing older program descriptions: the advanced practice core is now lifespan-based (DNP 605 Advanced Health Assessment Across Lifespan, DNP 608 Applied Pharmacotherapeutics Across Lifespan) rather than the pediatric-specific assessment and pharmacology courses ASU previously listed. Pediatric specificity now sits almost entirely in the concentration.
The concentration itself is well-built for acute care. Two paired theory-plus-practicum blocks (DNP 606/607 and DNP 619/620) work through body-system analysis of emergent conditions in complex pediatric patients, each carrying six practicum credits. DNP 649 Advanced Physiology adds a cellular and systems-level foundation beyond the standard pathophysiology course — genuinely useful preparation for managing unstable physiology.
The inclusion of DNP 643/644 (well-child care and practicum) is a deliberate breadth choice. It reflects PNCB expectations that acute care pediatric NPs understand normal development, but it also consumes 5 of 26 concentration credits on non-acute content.
Concentration (26 credits)
- DNP 606 Principles of Pediatric Acute Care I (3)
- DNP 607 Advanced Pediatric Acute Care Practicum I (6)
- DNP 619 Principles of Pediatric Acute Care II (3)
- DNP 620 Advanced Pediatric Acute Care Practicum II (6)
- DNP 643 Developmentally Based Care of the Well Child (3)
- DNP 644 Well Child Advanced Practicum (2)
- DNP 649 Advanced Physiology (3)
Selected other requirements
- DNP 604 Advanced Human Pathophysiology Across Lifespan (4)
- DNP 605 Advanced Health Assessment Across Lifespan (3)
- DNP 608 Applied Pharmacotherapeutics Across Lifespan (3)
- DNP 712 Clinical Residency and Management (12)
- DNP 707 Disseminating Evidence to Advance Best Practice (3)
- DNP 704 Principles of Evidence-Based Care in Advanced Practice (4)
Full PNP-AC DNP degree requirements
PNP-AC DNP Clinical Requirements
ASU publishes 1,170 total practicum hours, which exceeds the AACN’s 1,000-hour DNP recommendation. Separately, students must complete 600 hours of direct patient care with a nurse practitioner or physician preceptor — the documented experience PNCB requires for exam eligibility.
Those two numbers describe different things, and the distinction is the single most useful clinical fact on this page:
- Specialty pediatric practicum: DNP 607 (6) + DNP 620 (6) + DNP 644 (2) = 14 credits ≈ 630 clock hours at ASU’s published 45-hours-per-credit ratio.
- DNP clinical residency: DNP 712 (12 credits) ≈ 540 hours, tied to the doctoral project and systems-level competencies rather than to pediatric bedside patient contact.
630 + 540 = 1,170, which matches ASU’s published total exactly. (The component breakdown is a calculation from ASU’s published credit and clock-hour data, not a direct ASU statement.) The practical takeaway: the headline 1,170 figure should not be read as 1,170 hours of pediatric acute care patient contact. Direct specialty patient care is closer to 600–630 hours.
Note also that the prior version of this profile listed 1,125 total hours; ASU currently publishes 1,170.
Placement rules are identical to the AGACNP track — assigned within Maricopa County, self-sourced everywhere else, no guarantee outside Maricopa, and mandatory relocation of clinicals to Phoenix if faculty determine additional supervision is needed. Rotations in urban underserved and rural shortage areas are available statewide.
What this means: pediatric acute care preceptors are scarce almost everywhere. Phoenix Children’s Hospital is the anchor site and the reason this program exists, so students who can be in metro Phoenix get a materially different experience from those trying to build a PICU or pediatric hospitalist rotation in a smaller market.
PNP-AC DNP Admissions
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in nursing from a regionally accredited institution
- Minimum 3.00 GPA (last 60 hours of first bachelor’s, or applicable master’s)
- Current unencumbered RN license in the practicum state, plus unencumbered Arizona or compact RN license
- Three professional letters of recommendation, resume, goal statement, admission essay
- Faculty interview required
- Background clearance and substance screen after admission
- One year of pediatric clinical experience preferred — not required
- No entrance exam
- Gap analysis; prior coursework must be within five years (or the applicant actively board certified and practicing)
- Fall start; December 15 priority deadline, rolling afterward based on clinical placement capacity
The December 15 deadline is functionally a hard one. ASU states the DNP program admits based on the number of available clinical placement seats, so late applicants compete for whatever remains.
PNP-AC Certificate
Acute Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (Graduate Certificate) — 20 credits, estimated $13,300–$19,000 for Arizona residents and roughly $32,400 for non-residents. About one year full-time. Requires an existing national certification as a primary care pediatric NP.
This is the narrowest-eligibility pathway on the page. Only nationally certified CPNP-PCs qualify, though ASU will also consider nationally certified FNPs currently working as an NP in a pediatric setting. A general FNP with no pediatric practice, an AGACNP, or a BSN-prepared PICU nurse cannot use this route.
PNP-AC Certificate Curriculum
The certificate is the DNP concentration’s acute care spine, stripped of everything else — no doctoral core, no well-child course, no project.
- DNP 606 Principles of Pediatric Acute Care I (3)
- DNP 607 Advanced Pediatric Acute Care Practicum I (7)
- DNP 619 Principles of Pediatric Acute Care II (3)
- DNP 620 Advanced Pediatric Acute Care Practicum II (7)
Source conflict: ASU lists DNP 607 and DNP 620 as 6 credits each in the DNP and 7 credits each in the certificate, even though the course numbers are identical. ASU does not explain the difference. The most likely reading is that certificate students carry additional practicum hours because they do not complete DNP 712, but applicants should confirm the actual clock-hour obligation with the program.
Certificate students must also complete prerequisite advanced pathophysiology, pharmacology, health assessment, and advanced practice role coursework. If a gap analysis finds these missing or older than five years, they are added to the plan of study — which can push the “one year” timeline out. Applicants with a recent, well-documented MSN core have the most to gain here; those with an older or thinner core should ask for the gap analysis result before assuming a one-year finish.
Full certificate degree requirements
PNP-AC Certificate Clinical Requirements
600 hours of direct patient care with an NP or physician preceptor — the PNCB documentation requirement for exam eligibility. Because there is no DNP residency component, essentially all of this is specialty pediatric acute care patient contact, which makes the certificate’s clinical density higher per hour than the DNP’s headline figure suggests.
Placement rules match the DNP tracks: assigned in Maricopa County, self-sourced elsewhere, not guaranteed, with possible mandatory relocation of clinicals to Phoenix. Compressing 600 preceptored hours into roughly two semesters while working is the practical constraint most certificate students underestimate.
PNP-AC Certificate Admissions
- Bachelor’s and master’s degree in nursing from a regionally accredited institution
- Minimum 3.00 GPA
- National certification as a primary care pediatric NP (certified FNPs practicing in pediatrics considered)
- Current unencumbered RN license in the practicum state, plus Arizona or compact RN license
- Three professional letters of recommendation, resume, goal statement, admission essay
- Faculty interview required
- One year of specialty-population clinical experience preferred
- Gap analysis for prerequisite core courses
- Background clearance and substance screen after admission
- Stackable: two ASU graduate certificates can be combined into a Master of Advanced Study
ENP Certificate
Emergency Nurse Practitioner (Graduate Certificate) — 16 credits, estimated $13,300–$15,200 for Arizona residents and roughly $26,000 for non-residents. About one year.
Included here because it is ASU’s other high-acuity pathway, with one important clarification: ENP is a specialty built on top of the family population focus, not an acute care APRN population focus. Eligibility is restricted to licensed FNPs or students currently in ASU’s FNP DNP program. It does not confer AGACNP or PNP-AC scope.
- DNP 610 Principles of Advanced Emergency Nursing I (3)
- DNP 611 ENP Practicum I (3)
- DNP 630 Principles of Advanced Emergency Nursing II (3)
- DNP 631 ENP Practicum II (4)
- DNP 649 Advanced Physiology (3)
Specialty content spans cardiovascular, thoracic-respiratory, abdominal, musculoskeletal, traumatic, renal, genitourinary, endocrine, neurologic, dermatologic, psychiatric, and HEENT presentations in ambulatory, urgent, and emergent settings — the clearest published trauma and multi-system emergency coverage of any ASU pathway.
Clinical requirement: 315 hours of direct patient care with an NP or physician preceptor, the documentation AANP requires for the national ENP exam. That is roughly half the pediatric certificate’s requirement, and it is the lightest clinical load of the four pathways. ASU states its nursing practice programs are validated by the American Academy of Emergency Nurse Practitioners.
Full ENP certificate requirements
Tuition
ASU does not publish a program-specific tuition total for any Edson DNP or NP certificate. The figures throughout this profile are calculated from ASU’s Fall 2026 graduate tuition and fees schedule multiplied by published credit totals.
2026–27 graduate rates (campus/immersion programs, all ASU campuses):
| Resident | Non-resident | |
|---|---|---|
| Per credit, 1–6 hours | $952 | $1,622 |
| Per-semester cap | $6,664 at 7+ credits | $19,470 at 12+ credits |
Mandatory fees add roughly $495–$829 per semester (tuition surcharge, student-initiated fee, graduate student support fee, and a new Advanced Technology Fee effective Fall 2026).
How the ranges were built. The low end of each resident range assumes full-time enrollment where the $6,664 per-semester cap applies; the high end assumes part-time enrollment at six credits or fewer, where every credit is billed individually. Non-resident students hit their cap only at 12+ credits per semester, so the non-resident figures are close to a straight per-credit calculation either way. All estimates exclude fees, books, travel to campus immersions, and future tuition increases — ASU explicitly reserves the right to raise rates.
An important billing question to confirm. ASU bills digital-immersion (fully online) graduate students at $605 per credit for residents and non-residents alike. Edson describes its DNP programs as “hybrid iCourse and in-person,” and Degree Search lists the application modality as In Person with a Downtown Phoenix location — which points to campus rates. But if a given student is billed under the online schedule instead, a non-resident’s cost would fall by more than half. Ask the program which schedule applies to you before enrolling, and run your own numbers through the ASU tuition estimator. ASU also notes that certain graduate programs carry differential or program tuition; whether Edson DNP tracks do is not published on the general schedules.
Correction to prior figures. Earlier versions of this profile listed $650–$1,332 per credit and DNP totals of $27,000–$33,000. Those numbers do not reconcile with any current ASU rate — and $27,000–$33,000 is arithmetically impossible against an 85-credit requirement at any published ASU graduate rate.
Financial support specifically relevant here: students admitted to Edson DNP programs are eligible to apply for the Nurse Faculty Loan Program (NFLP), which forgives up to 85% of the loan for graduates who work four consecutive years as nursing faculty or clinical preceptors. Non-residents from participating western states may qualify for reduced tuition through WICHE/WRGP. Budget separately for campus immersion travel: at up to a week of orientation plus two to three trips per semester, an out-of-state student can face 20+ round trips to Phoenix across a three-year DNP.
Why Choose This ACNP Program?
Best suited for: a metro Phoenix RN who wants doctoral acute care preparation, values a large public university’s cost structure at resident rates, and can absorb frequent campus travel — especially one targeting pediatric acute care, where ASU’s Phoenix Children’s Hospital pipeline is the real asset.
Two acute care population focuses under one roof
Few schools run both AGACNP and PNP-AC tracks. With the AGACNP DNP launching for Fall 2026, ASU now covers adolescents through older adults and infants through young adults. For nurses still deciding between adult and pediatric acute care, that means one application process and one set of program mechanics to evaluate. The caveat is real, though: the AGACNP track is brand new, absent from Edson’s own program menu, and not yet GI Bill–approved. First cohorts absorb the friction of any new program.
Clinical placement is the deciding factor
This is where most applicants should make their decision. ASU arranges placements only for Maricopa County residents. Everyone else identifies their own sites and preceptors, gets them approved by Edson before starting, and receives no guarantee. Layer on the rule that faculty can require a struggling student to complete clinicals in Phoenix, and the calculus is straightforward: if you live in metro Phoenix, this program’s clinical model is a strength. If you don’t, it is the largest risk you will take on.
That risk is sharpest for AGACNP applicants. Adult ICU, step-down, and hospitalist rotations almost always require institutional affiliation agreements that individual nurses cannot negotiate on their own.
A permissive experience bar, for better and worse
One year of specialty-population experience is preferred across every ASU pathway. Not required. No ICU minimum, no emergency department minimum, no critical care hours, no RN practice-hour floor. Compared with AGACNP programs that require one to two years of documented ICU experience before admission or before clinical courses begin, ASU’s door is wide open.
For an experienced med-surg or ED nurse who has been screened out elsewhere, that is a genuine opening. For someone who wants a cohort of seasoned critical care nurses and clinical expectations built on that foundation, it is a reason to look at more selective programs.
Campus immersions are not incidental
“Hybrid” here means up to a week of orientation plus two to three campus visits every semester for the duration of the program. Over a three-year DNP that is a standing travel obligation, not a one-time residency. Anyone evaluating this program as an online option is evaluating the wrong thing. On the other side, immersions happen at the Downtown Phoenix campus, home to the Grace Center for Innovation in Nursing Education — a 45,000 sq. ft. simulation facility and the only SSH-accredited nursing simulation program in Arizona. ASU does not publish which specific simulation or skills competencies acute care NP students complete there, which is worth asking about directly.
The Verdict
Strongest case: an Arizona-resident nurse in metro Phoenix pursuing pediatric acute care. Resident tuition is competitive, placements are arranged rather than hunted, Phoenix Children’s provides the specialty depth pediatric acute care requires, and the 600-hour direct patient care requirement is firmly documented for PNCB eligibility. A certified CPNP-PC in Phoenix who wants acute care scope has an even cleaner case — the 20-credit certificate is the fastest, cheapest route on this page.
Compare other options if you live outside Maricopa County, and especially if you live outside Arizona. Self-sourcing high-acuity preceptors without a guarantee, while paying non-resident tuition near $138,000 and flying to Phoenix two or three times a semester, is a difficult combination to justify when programs with coordinated national placement exist. Non-residents should also verify the tuition schedule question above before ruling ASU in or out — the answer moves the total by tens of thousands of dollars.
Also compare elsewhere if you want explicitly named procedural training. ASU’s published acute care curricula do not include dedicated courses in mechanical ventilation, rhythm interpretation, trauma resuscitation, or invasive procedures; those topics may be embedded in the theory and practicum sequences, but ASU does not say so. The ENP certificate is the only ASU pathway that publishes explicit trauma and multi-system emergency content — and it requires an FNP license to enter.
Accreditation and Certification
Arizona State University is institutionally accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. The baccalaureate, master’s, DNP, and post-graduate APRN certificate programs at Edson College are accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), and all programs are approved by the Arizona State Board of Nursing. The Grace Center holds simulation program accreditation from the Society for Simulation in Healthcare.
Certification by pathway:
- PNP-AC DNP and certificate: ASU states directly that documented clinical experiences meet Pediatric Nursing Certification Board (PNCB) requirements for the national acute care pediatric nurse practitioner examination.
- AGACNP DNP: ASU’s program page does not name a certification examination. Adult-gerontology acute care graduates typically sit for the ANCC AGACNP-BC or the AACN ACNPC-AG. Because this is a new track, confirm exam eligibility with the program in writing before enrolling.
- ENP certificate: prepares graduates for the American Association of Nurse Practitioners emergency nurse practitioner examination; ASU states its nursing practice programs are validated by the American Academy of Emergency Nurse Practitioners.
State authorization matters more than usual here. ASU participates in SARA, but Edson College carries state-specific exceptions, and in several jurisdictions clinical rotations, field experiences, and practicums are unavailable to Edson nursing students entirely — confirmed for Louisiana, New York, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, and the Federated States of Micronesia. California is not a SARA member state, which ASU addresses separately. Because a nursing program without clinicals cannot be completed, distance applicants must check the ASU state authorization page for their own state before applying — and must notify ASU if they relocate mid-program, since a move can end program eligibility. ASU also states that its programs are designed for licensure in Arizona and may not meet another state’s educational requirements; see the ASU professional licensure page.
One additional note: ASU’s Advanced Nursing Practice (Neonatal Nurse Practitioner) DNP still appears in Degree Search, but the page states ASU is not currently accepting applications for it.
Additional ACNP Programs for Arizona Residents
- Grand Canyon University - Phoenix
- University of Arizona - Tucson