South Suburban College
ACEN AccreditedSouth Suburban College at a glance
- South Suburban College's most recent NCLEX-RN first-time pass rate is 87% on 15 candidates (2025) — up 27 pts since 2021.
- Across 5 reported years (2021–2025), the candidate-weighted average is 81.9% over 82 total candidates.
- Programmatic accreditation: ACEN.
87%
NCLEX-RN first-time pass rate (2025, 15 candidates)
Source: State board of nursing
81.9%
Candidate-weighted average, 2021–2025
Source: State board of nursing
- NCLEX Pass Rate
- 87%
Sources: NCSBN, school-reported data. Methodology.
NCLEX-RN pass rates by year
Board-reported first-time pass rates for South Suburban College, each shown with the cohort size it was calculated from. Candidate-weighted average across 5 years: 81.9% over 82 candidates.
South Suburban College's latest reported year is 2025, and that 87% — from a cohort of 15 first-time candidates — is in line with the 87.5% national first-time NCLEX-RN pass rate NCSBN reported for 2024.
| Exam year | First-time pass rate | Candidates |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 87% | 15 |
| 2024 | 100% | 16 |
| 2023 | 93% | 14 |
| 2022 | 73% | 22 |
| 2021 | 60% | 15 |
Source: state board of nursing publications, transcribed per cohort. Cohorts under 10 candidates are suppressed rather than shown. Full NCLEX detail for South Suburban College.
Nursing Programs at South Suburban College(0)
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Admissions at South Suburban College
- •Admission rate / acceptance rate
- •No stated overall acceptance or admission rate (%) is published on official South Suburban College nursing pages.
- •Minimum GPA requirement
- •Applicants must have a cumulative college GPA of at least 2.5 to be considered for admission.
- •Prerequisite course requirements
- •Required prerequisites (minimum grade “C”): ENG 101 (Composition and Rhetoric), PSY 101 (Introduction to Psychology), BIO 102 or BIO 105 (Introductory Biology), and MTH 115 (General Education Mathematics). All must be completed by the end of the spring semester prior to admission.
- •Standardized entrance exam (HESI)
- •A standardized pre‑admission nursing entrance exam (HESI A2) is required; students must pay for it. A minimum cumulative score of 70% is required, and applicants are allowed two attempts per admission cycle.
- •Application timeline & process notes
- •Applications open October 1 for Fall admission. All materials and test results must be on file by May 15. Admission decisions are communicated by June 1 for traditional students; LPN‑to‑RN bridge applicants receive notification by August 1.
Based on publicly available information. Source
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Schedule & Format Flexibility at South Suburban College
- •The Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) Program is full-time. There is no mention of part-time, evening, or weekend cohorts within this program.
- •Delivery format (online/hybrid/in-person) for nursing-specific courses is not explicitly described on the ADN pages. The program appears to be delivered in traditional formats aligned with clinical and on-campus instruction, but no specifics are stated.
- •SSC offers a broader set of 5 “High Five” modes of delivery for its courses campus-wide—including in-person, online, virtual, flex, and blended formats. However, whether nursing courses specifically use any of these flexible delivery modes is not specified.
- •The ADN Program start terms are:
- •Traditional ADN admits once annually in the Fall semester.
- •LPN‑to‑RN Bridge Option admits once annually in the Spring semester.
- •Asynchronous vs. synchronous coursework: SSC’s general course schedule includes codes for asynchronous online (e.g., section numbers 301–339, 360–379) and synchronous “virtual” online formats (e.g., 340–359, 380–399) for general instruction. However, it is unclear whether these apply specifically to nursing courses.
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.