Portland Community College
ACEN AccreditedPortland Community College at a glance
- Portland Community College's most recent NCLEX-RN first-time pass rate is 91% on 33 candidates (2025) — down 3 pts since 2021.
- Across 5 reported years (2021–2025), the candidate-weighted average is 93.5% over 154 total candidates.
- Programmatic accreditation: ACEN.
91%
NCLEX-RN first-time pass rate (2025, 33 candidates)
Source: State board of nursing
93.5%
Candidate-weighted average, 2021–2025
Source: State board of nursing
- NCLEX Pass Rate
- 91%
Sources: NCSBN, school-reported data. Methodology.
NCLEX-RN pass rates by year
Board-reported first-time pass rates for Portland Community College, each shown with the cohort size it was calculated from. Candidate-weighted average across 5 years: 93.5% over 154 candidates.
Portland Community College's latest reported year is 2025, and that 91% — from a cohort of 33 first-time candidates — is 3.5 points above the 87.5% national first-time NCLEX-RN pass rate NCSBN reported for 2024.
| Exam year | First-time pass rate | Candidates |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 91% | 33 |
| 2024 | 90% | 31 |
| 2023 | 100% | 29 |
| 2022 | 93% | 27 |
| 2021 | 94% | 34 |
Source: state board of nursing publications, transcribed per cohort. Cohorts under 10 candidates are suppressed rather than shown. Full NCLEX detail for Portland Community College.
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Admissions at Portland Community College
- •Competitive limited‑entry program: up to 40 students admitted each fall, from approximately 300–400 applicants (e.g., in 2025, 400+ applications received, 286 complete, 93 invited to Phase II, 40 seat offers extended)
- •No published overall acceptance or admission percentage found on official PCC pages.
- •Minimum cumulative GPA for prerequisite courses: 3.0 (applicants must meet this to apply)
- •Minimum 30 of the 45 prerequisite credits must be completed with a grade of “C” or better by the end of the fall term prior to applying; the remaining 15 credits must be completed by the end of the spring term of the application year. All prerequisites must be current (within 7 years) and include specific courses such as Anatomy & Physiology I–III, Microbiology, Nutrition, Human Development, and Math competency. Pass/No Pass grades are not accepted.
- •Time limits: prerequisite courses (A&P I–III, Microbiology, Nutrition, Human Development, and Math) must be current within 7 years of application. No time limitations noted for writing, social science, support courses, or general education electives.
- •Application process: Three-phase selection:
- •1. Phase I: NCAS application and preliminary point‑based ranking (based on prerequisite GPA, science GPA, prior degree, PCC enrollment, support courses, completion of prerequisites)
- •2. Phase II: HSRT (Health Sciences Reasoning Test), essay responses, resume, letter of interest
- •3. Phase III: Final selection (details no
Based on publicly available information. Source
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Schedule & Format Flexibility at Portland Community College
- •Nursing Assistant (credit or non-credit) program offers a hybrid format combining remote learning with hands‑on practice: online asynchronous lecture (self‑paced, no fixed login times) plus an in‑person skills lab.
- •The asynchronous portion of the Nursing Assistant program covers theory (medical terminology, patient rights, safety, infection control) through self‑paced online content, with no set meeting times.
- •The Nursing Assistant program includes required in‑person skills lab sessions for practicing core nursing assistant skills under instructor supervision.
- •For the Associate Degree—Nursing (RN) program: applications are accepted once per year (winter term) for fall entry; new cohorts begin each September.
- •The RN program does not mention options such as online delivery, evening or weekend scheduling, multiple cohort starts, or asynchronous/synchronous formats.
- •The RN program’s structure follows a fixed, sequential term-by-term curriculum, with six terms after completion of prerequisites—no flexible scheduling formats like evening/weekend indicated.
- •Transfer credit policies for all PCC programs (including nursing) require official transcripts submitted to Student Records, followed by a
Based on publicly available information. Source
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Sources: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN); CCNE; ACEN.