UIC charges a flat $1,368 a credit hour for 112 credits whether or not you are an Illinois resident, which is unusual and works in an out-of-state applicant's favour. The hybrid program runs three years, applications close November 1, and it wants two years of current critical care experience rather than one. Its first cohort has not graduated yet, so there is no pass rate, attrition or employment record to judge it by.
Every figure on this page was read off University of Illinois Chicago'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.
UIC CRNA Program: Key Facts
| Degree awarded | DNP |
|---|---|
| Program length | 3 years |
| Credits | 112 |
| Start | Fall only |
| Application deadline | November 1 (for the following fall term start; specific admission cycle year not stated on page) |
| Minimum ICU experience | 2 years current RN critical care experience |
| CCRN | Not published — verify on the program site |
| GRE | Not published — verify on the program site |
| Minimum GPA | 3 |
| Class / cohort size | Not published — verify on the program site |
| Format | Hybrid |
| Tuition (in-state) | $1,368 per credit hour (flat rate, applies to both in-state and out-of-state) |
| Tuition (out-of-state) | $1,368 per credit hour (flat rate, applies to both in-state and out-of-state) |
| 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 two years of current critical care experience. 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 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
- BSN from regionally accredited institution (upper-division nursing major, CCNE/NLN-accredited)
- Active/valid RN license in Illinois or a bordering state
- Minimum compiled GPA 3.0/4.0
- 2 years current critical care RN experience
- Shadow day with a CRNA
Deadline and Timeline
Applications close November 1, for the following autumn term, 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
$1,368 a credit hour, the same rate for residents and non-residents, across 112 credits.
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 first cohort has not graduated, with outcomes expected from 2028.
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 UIC Compares in Illinois
Illinois has other accredited options, and their requirements are not identical. See all Illinois CRNA programs, or start with these:
| Program | City | Degree | Cost | Acceptance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DePaul University | Chicago | DNP | $115,000 | 18% |
| Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science | North Chicago | DNP | Varies | N/A |
| Rush University | Chicago | DNP | $128,000 | 12% |
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 University of Illinois Chicago'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.