Trent Students
Current Trent students are welcome to apply to transfer into either nursing streams. Applications for current Trent students will become available in mid-September. The "Transfer to Nursing" is located on the MyTrent student portal, under the Academics tab. Applications are due by early-March. For more information on admissions requirements for current Trent students, please refer to the Admissions Information guide.
Former Trent students should review the application information available at trentu.ca/readmit.
International Applicants
If you are an international applicant, please first consult Trent International
If you have completed your post-secondary studies outside of Canada, you may be required to submit a course-by-course WES (World Education Services) evaluation. Please email nursingadmissions@trentu.ca to find out if you are required to submit a WES evaluation.
Internationally Educated Nurses or Physicians
Trent does not admit internationally educated nurses who have completed a B.Sc. in Nursing (or equivalent) or who hold a Registered Nurse license to our collaborative or compressed nursing streams. Trent is part of the Ontario Internationally Educated Nurses Course Consortium and information about this program can be found at rncompetencies.ca
Trent will consider individuals to the Nursing program who have completed physician education, either internationally or domestically on a case-by-case basis.
Mature Applicants
Mature applicants are required to meet the minimum admission requirements as published. Applicants that do not possess the prerequisites may be admitted as mature students to another program and apply to transfer for the following year. For information about transferring as a Trent student see the requirements listed above.
Nursing Transfer Students
Students wishing to transfer from another nursing program must meet the admission requirements as listed on the Trent website. In addition, students must be eligible to continue or return to their previous nursing program. The completion of a waiver allowing the Dean of the Trent/Fleming School of Nursing to contact the Dean of the applicant's previous institution is required.
Transfer credits will be evaluated upon admission to the program. Students may be required to provide course syllabi for transfer credit evaluation and credit may be given for courses that are comparable to the nursing program curriculum. The maximum number of transferable credits is 10.0 full credits.
Because Nursing programs are structured differently at different institutions, and courses must be a close match to Trent courses to be awarded equivalency, Nursing transfer students may find that they do not receive as many transfer credits as they expected. Prospective students can search our transfer credit database to see if any of the courses they are currently taking have already been evaluated for equivalency.
The B.Sc.N program at Trent is laddered, and progression to upper year courses is dependent upon completion of lower year courses. As a result, Nursing transfer students normally start in the first semester: they may have a reduced course load but are unlikely to reduce the length of their program.
Applications are made via the Ontario Universities' Applications Centre and are open from early-September to mid-February.
Trent does not offer a post-R.N. to B.Sc.N. program. Individuals holding current registration as an R.N. (or equivalent) with the College of Nurses of Ontario, any other Canadian nursing regulatory body, or internationally, are not eligible for admission to the School of Nursing. Individuals are not eligible for admission if they already hold a B.Sc.N. (or equivalent) degree.