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Outcomes
NCLEX-RN pass rates by year
Board-reported first-time pass rates for Johns Hopkins University, each shown with the cohort size it was calculated from. Candidate-weighted average across 3 years: 87.6% over 808 candidates.
Johns Hopkins University's latest reported year is 2025, and that 92.21% — from a cohort of 244 first-time candidates — is 5.5 points above the 86.7% national first-time NCLEX-RN pass rate NCSBN reported for 2025.
| Exam year | First-time pass rate | Candidates |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 92.21% | 244 |
| 2023 | 85.57% | 291 |
| 2022 | 85.71% | 273 |
Source: state board of nursing publications, transcribed per cohort. Cohorts under 10 candidates are suppressed rather than shown. Full NCLEX detail for Johns Hopkins University.
Johns Hopkins Universityoverall score
Strengths
- Graduation rate
- Clinical partnerships
- NCLEX pass rate
Watch-outs
- Tuition affordability
- Online flexibility
Score breakdown
- NCLEX pass rate89
- Job market strength82
- Graduation rate96
- Online flexibility49
- Tuition affordability21
- Clinical partnerships90
The Opportunity Score blends NCLEX pass rate, tuition affordability, graduation outcomes, schedule flexibility, hospital clinical partnerships, and state job-market strength. Missing inputs are excluded and remaining weights are redistributed proportionally. How we calculate this.
Johns Hopkins Universityclinical access
- Students complete clinical rotations at Kennedy Krieger Institute, GBMC, and Mount Washington Pediatric Hospital.
- The School employs a dedicated Clinical Placement Team to coordinate placements.
- JHUSON features a state-of-the-art Center for Simulation & Immersive Learning.
- The SNAPT Fellowship provides a structured pathway to employment for Nurse Practitioner students.
Named hospital & health-system partners
- Kennedy Krieger Institute
- Greater Baltimore Medical Center
- Mount Washington Pediatric Hospital
Sources: nursing.jhu.edu, nursing.jhu.edu, nursing.jhu.edu. How we score this
Admissions
Admissions at Johns Hopkins University
- Acceptance or admission rate
- No stated acceptance or admission rate was found on official Johns Hopkins School of Nursing pages.
- Minimum GPA
- Master of Science in Nursing (MSN): Entry into Nursing track requires a cumulative GPA of at least 3.0 on a 4.0 scale.
- TEAS or HESI thresholds
- No mention of TEAS or HESI score thresholds was found on official Johns Hopkins School of Nursing pages.
- Prerequisite coursework requirements
- Prerequisite coursework must be completed at a regionally accredited college or university with a grade of B‑ or higher (MSN Entry into Nursing track); for MSN Specialty Tracks and DNP programs, a grade of B or higher is required. No exceptions are made.
- Waitlist
- Applicants may be placed on a wait list; if space becomes available, wait‑listed applicants are notified. Final notifications are generally sent at least one month before the program start date. Rankings on the wait list are not disclosed, and wait list candidacies are not carried over to the following year.
- If you’d like details for a specific program (e.g., DNP or specialty tracks), I’d be happy to look further—but as of now, these are the only publicly stated admissions thresholds and policies I could verify.
Based on publicly available information. Source
Wages
Maryland RN mean wage
Published tuition is in the figures above. This is the mean annual wage for a registered nurse in the school's home state.
$96,650
Salary is the BLS OEWS May 2024 mean annual wage for registered nurses in Maryland. Tuition is the school-published program total and excludes fees, books, and living costs.
About
About Johns Hopkins University
You can choose from on-campus and fully online programs designed to meet diverse career goals. With a focus on innovation and research, JHU prepares you to excel in the dynamic field of nursing.
Format
Schedule and format at Johns Hopkins University
- Online, hybrid, or on‑campus delivery formats
- The DNP Primary Care Nurse Practitioner tracks offer a hybrid (“online and immersive”) structure: coursework is delivered online, clinical learning occurs locally, and there are in-person course immersions at JHSON.
- Executive Education offerings include formats that are online, in-person, or hybrid depending on the program (e.g., “Empowered by AI: Transforming Patient Outcomes…” is offered as hybrid; “Online Prerequisites for Healthcare Degrees” are online).
- Official site does not explicitly state delivery mode for all MSN or other degree programs; unclear for many programs regarding online/hybrid/off‑campus flexibility.
- Evening, weekend, or multiple cohort start options
- There is no explicit mention of evening classes, weekend classes, or multiple cohort start dates (e.g., staggered start terms…) on the pages reviewed.
- Asynchronous vs synchronous coursework
- In the Online Master’s Programs FAQ, online courses are described as instructor‑facilitated and delivered in a primarily asynchronous collaborative learning environment: includes discussion boards, wikis, virtual media, video presentations, live conferencing
Based on publicly available information. Source
Programs
Details that belong to one program
DNP – Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP)
Minimum GPA: 3.0
No official acceptance or admission rate (%) is published on the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing website. A third-party source suggests an approximate acceptance rate of ~62%.
Students may request transfer of up to six graduate-level semester credit hours from outside JHSON, for courses completed within five years prior to starting the program, with a grade of B or higher.
MSN – Psychiatric Mental Health NP (PMHNP)
Minimum GPA: 3.0
No official acceptance or admission rate (%) is published on the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing website. A third-party source suggests an approximate acceptance rate of ~62%.
Students may request transfer of up to six graduate-level semester credit hours from outside JHSON, for courses completed within five years prior to starting the program, with a grade of B or higher.
MSN — Family Nurse Practitioner
Primarily asynchronous collaborative learning environment.
MSN — Nursing Informatics
Minimum GPA: 3.0
Minimum GPA of 3.0 required for MSN Entry into Nursing track.
Primarily asynchronous collaborative learning environment.
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Sources: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN); CCNE; ACEN.
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