Baylor College of Medicine CRNA: 91% NCE, 36 Months

Baylor College of Medicine's BSN-to-DNP track runs 36 months and bills $90,000 in tuition across four billing years, with applications closing on or before June 1 of the year before you start. It is one of the few programs that still requires the GRE, alongside a 3.0 cumulative GPA and at least a year of ICU experience, with two years preferred. Its most recent graduating class passed the National Certification Exam at 91% on the first attempt against a national average of 86.6%.

Every figure on this page was read off Baylor College of Medicine's own pages on 22 September 2026. Where the program publishes nothing, this page says so rather than guessing. The National Certification Exam, or NCE, is the exam every graduate has to pass, and a program that publishes its first-time pass rate is handing you the single most useful number it has.

Baylor College of Medicine CRNA Program: Key Facts

Key facts for the Baylor College of Medicine nurse anesthesia program
Degree awarded	Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)
Program length	BSN-DNP track: 36 months (18-month didactic + 18-month clinical); MS-DNP (advanced-standing CRNA) track: 4 semesters, ~24 months
Credits	Not published — verify on the program site
Start	MS-DNP track: January (Spring 1 orientation); BSN-DNP start month not stated
Application deadline	On or before June 1 of the year prior to the admission year sought (both BSN-DNP and MS-DNP tracks)
Minimum ICU experience	1 year minimum (2 years preferred), BSN-DNP track
CCRN	Strongly encouraged (not required), BSN-DNP track
GRE	Required (BSN-DNP track)
Minimum GPA	3.0 cumulative (both tracks)
Class / cohort size	Not published — verify on the program site
Format	BSN-DNP: didactic then clinical phases (format not explicitly labeled); MS-DNP (advanced-standing CRNA): hybrid, mostly online with periodic on-campus sessions
Tuition (in-state)	Not published — verify on the program site
Tuition (out-of-state)	Not published — verify on the program site
Tuition (as published)	$90,000 tuition for the BSN-DNP track ($15,000 + $30,000 + $30,000 + $15,000 across the four billing years; years 1 and 4 are single-term). Direct charges including fees and insurance total $134,466. 2026-27 rates, no in-state/out-of-state distinction
NCE first-time pass rate	91% most recent graduating class first-time pass rate (vs 86.6% national); 93% five-year average
Attrition	Not published — verify on the program site
Employment	100% of most recent graduates employed upon graduation

Anything marked “Not published” is genuinely absent from the program's own pages. Programs are not required to publish tuition, cohort size or acceptance rate, and many do not. We would rather leave a gap than fill it with a third-party guess.

Admission Requirements

The critical-care floor is one year minimum, with two years preferred. That is the hard rule, and a file sitting exactly on it is eligible rather than competitive — committees read high-acuity time in a CVICU, SICU, trauma or neuro unit very differently from a monitored floor.

On grades the program asks for a 3.0 cumulative minimum. Treat that as a screen rather than a target, because admitted classes at doctoral programs usually sit well above the stated floor and science coursework is weighed separately.

CCRN: Strongly encouraged, not required.

GRE: Required.

Published prerequisites

Current unencumbered RN license
Bachelor's degree (BSN-DNP track) or Master's/higher degree in nursing/nurse anesthesia (MS-DNP track)
Statistics and research methods course, grade B or better
Current CRNA licensure/authorization (MS-DNP track only)

Deadline and Timeline

Applications close on or before June 1 of the year before the one you want to start.

Deadlines move year to year, and a doctoral cohort is usually decided nine to twelve months before it starts. Confirm the current cycle on the program site before you plan around this date. Our CRNA application timeline works backwards from a start date through references, shadowing, CCRN and transcripts.

Cost

$90,000 in tuition across the four billing years, rising to $134,466 once fees and insurance are counted. There is no resident or non-resident distinction.

Tuition is not the whole number. Fees, health insurance, board-exam and licensure costs, relocation and the lost income of three years out of a staff job all land on the same ledger. Our CRNA school cost guide works through the full picture, and cheapest CRNA programs ranks by published tuition.

Outcomes

First-time NCE pass rate: 91% first-time on the most recent graduating class, with a 93% five-year average

Attrition: not published

Employment: 100% of the most recent graduates employed on graduation

These three figures are worth more than any ranking. COA requires accredited programs to publish them, and read together they tell you whether a program gets the people it admits through to a licence. National context: the first-time NCE pass rate was 90.5% in 2025 (NBCRNA), with a five-year average of 86.6%.

How Baylor College of Medicine Compares in Texas

Most applicants apply to four to eight programs, so Baylor College of Medicine is a comparison, not a decision. See all Texas CRNA programs, or start with these:

Program	City	Degree	Cost	Acceptance
Texas Christian University	Fort Worth	DNAP	$115,000	17%
Texas Wesleyan University	Fort Worth	DNAP	$115,000	19%
The University of Texas at San Antonio	San Antonio	DNP	Varies	N/A

Cost and acceptance in that table are directory figures rather than program-verified ones. "Varies" and "N/A" mean the program publishes neither.

Sources and How We Verified This

Every figure above was read off Baylor College of Medicine's own pages on 22 September 2026. Accreditation status and review dates come from the COA list of accredited programs. We publish no number we could not read at its source.

Programs change requirements and prices between admission cycles. If something here no longer matches the program site, tell us and we will fix it.