UTHealth Houston's 112-credit DNP runs 36 months across nine semesters, and its 2025 graduates passed the National Certification Exam at 100% on the first attempt. The next cycle closes on July 1, 2027 for a summer 2028 start, a longer lead time than most programs ask for. It publishes a 3.0 GPA minimum but no tuition figure, ICU minimum, CCRN policy or cohort size, so check those with the program office.
Every figure on this page was read off University of Texas Health Science Center - Houston'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.
UTHealth Houston CRNA Program: Key Facts
| Degree awarded | Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) in Nurse Anesthesia |
|---|---|
| Program length | 36 months (nine semesters) |
| Credits | 112 |
| Start | Summer |
| Application deadline | Summer 2028 cycle - deadline July 1, 2027 |
| Minimum ICU experience | Not published — verify on the program site |
| CCRN | Not published — verify on the program site |
| GRE | Not published — verify on the program site |
| Minimum GPA | 3.0 |
| Class / cohort size | Not published — verify on the program site |
| Format | On campus |
| 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 | 100% (2025 graduates) |
| 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 program does not state a minimum amount of critical-care experience. Every COA-accredited program requires at least one year, so treat that as the floor and ask the program office what it actually competes on.
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 published.
GRE: not published.
Published prerequisites
- Completed organic chemistry or biochemistry course with a grade of B or higher, taken within the past 5 years
Deadline and Timeline
Applications close July 1, 2027, for the summer 2028 cycle, and the program starts in the summer.
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: 100% for the 2025 graduates
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 UTHealth Houston Compares in Texas
Most applicants apply to four to eight programs, so UTHealth Houston is a comparison, not a decision. See all Texas CRNA programs, or start with these:
| Program | City | Degree | Cost | Acceptance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baylor College of Medicine | Houston | DNP | $90,000 | 12% |
| Texas Christian University | Fort Worth | DNAP | $115,000 | 17% |
| Texas Wesleyan University | Fort Worth | DNAP | $115,000 | 19% |
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 Texas Health Science Center - Houston'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.
- https://nursing.uth.edu/programs/dnp/nurse-anesthesia/
- https://nursing.uth.edu/programs/application-deadlines
- https://nursing.uth.edu/programs/dnp/nurse-anesthesia/admission-requirements
Programs change requirements and prices between admission cycles. If something here no longer matches the program site, tell us and we will fix it.