Nursing Major Applicants - Admission Stat Information

Mwallenmd
Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:40:48 +0000

From a UD Nursing Dept. Faculty member I was able to find out that for the current freshman nursing class there were over 1400 applications for admission. Approximately 300 students were accepted (about 21% acceptance rate) with the class ending up at 140 students. These 1400 applications included both in-state and OOS applicants (I do not have a breakdown of percentage of in-state verses OOS applicants but the overwhelming majority were OOS applicants). However, UD does appear to give some level of priority to in-state applicants in nursing. The nursing freshman class was comprised of only about 60% of OOS students. Based on this disparity I therefore believe the OOS acceptance rate for nursing admission was well below 20%. These data support the fact that nursing, along with electrical engineering, are the two most competitive majors for admission to UD for OOS applicants (info from admission staff member). Just thought I’d pass this info along.