Ohio State's 106-credit DNP runs 36 months straight through the summers, and the next deadline is September 16, 2026 for an autumn 2027 start. You need a year of ICU experience earned within the past two years, a 3.0 cumulative GPA and a 3.2 physical science GPA. This is a new specialty track, so there is no pass rate, attrition or employment record yet, and the program publishes no tuition figure either.
Every figure on this page was read off Ohio State University'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.
Ohio State CRNA Program: Key Facts
| Degree awarded | Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) |
|---|---|
| Program length | 36 months full-time, including summers |
| Credits | 106 |
| Start | Autumn (specific month not stated); Autumn 2027 cycle referenced |
| Application deadline | Sep. 16, 2026, for the Autumn 2027 cycle |
| Minimum ICU experience | 1 year minimum, within the past two years |
| CCRN | Not mentioned |
| GRE | Not published — verify on the program site |
| Minimum GPA | 3.0 cumulative (most recent relevant degree); 3.2 physical science GPA |
| Class / cohort size | Not published — verify on the program site |
| Format | Online synchronous coursework with in-person skills sessions and simulation seminars |
| Tuition (in-state) | Not published — verify on the program site |
| Tuition (out-of-state) | Not published — verify on the program site |
| NCE first-time pass rate | Not published — verify on the program site |
| Attrition | Not published — verify on the program site |
| Employment | Not published — verify on the program site |
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, earned within the past two years. 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 and a 3.2 physical science 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: not mentioned on the program's pages.
GRE: not mentioned on the program's pages.
Published prerequisites
- Cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher in most recent relevant degree
- Minimum cumulative physical science GPA of 3.2 or greater
- Biology, Chemistry, Microbiology coursework
- 1 year full-time critical care RN experience within past 2 years
Deadline and Timeline
Applications close September 16, 2026, for the autumn 2027 cycle, and the program starts in the autumn.
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
not published. The figure in our directory is an older estimate, not a program-verified number.
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: not published. The track is new and has no graduates yet.
Attrition: not published
Employment: not published
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 Ohio State Compares in Ohio
If Ohio State is on your list, price it against the rest of Ohio before you commit an application fee. See all Ohio CRNA programs, or start with these:
| Program | City | Degree | Cost | Acceptance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case Western Reserve University | Cleveland | DNP | $135,000 | 11% |
| Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing (Case Western Reserve) | Cleveland | DNP | Varies | N/A |
| Lourdes University | Sylvania | 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 Ohio State University'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.