Marquette publishes what almost no other program will: it received 223 applications for the 16 seats in its 2026 cohort, an admit rate of about 7%. Tuition is $131,950 for the full three years, applications close December 15, and the CCRN is required while the GRE is not. Its 2025 cohort passed the National Certification Exam at 100% on the first attempt, after 90% the year before.
Every figure on this page was read off Marquette 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.
Marquette CRNA Program: Key Facts
| Degree awarded | Post-BSN DNP (Nurse Anesthetist DNP) |
|---|---|
| Program length | 3 years, full-time only |
| Credits | 91 |
| Start | Fall |
| Application deadline | December 15 (2026/27 admissions cycle, per page context; application opens September 1) |
| Minimum ICU experience | Minimum 1 year, preferably 2 years, full-time critical care RN experience |
| CCRN | Required |
| GRE | Not required |
| Minimum GPA | 3 |
| Class / cohort size | 15 admitted (2025 cohort); 16 admitted (2026 cohort) |
| Format | On-campus with hybrid elements — courses primarily in person, some hybrid/online courses; simulation labs and clinicals in person |
| Tuition (in-state) | $14,661/semester for 9 semesters = $131,950 total (Fall 2026 entering students; no in-state/out-of-state distinction on page) |
| Tuition (out-of-state) | Same flat rate as in-state — $14,661/semester for 9 semesters = $131,950 total (Fall 2026 entering students) |
| Tuition (as published) | $131,950 total program (Fall 2026 entering students) |
| NCE first-time pass rate | 90% first-attempt (2024 cohort); 100% first-attempt (2025 cohort); overall pass rate 100% both cohorts |
| Attrition | 0 (2024 cohort); 1 (2025 cohort) |
| Employment | 100% employed within 6 months post-completion (2024 and 2025 cohorts) |
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 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: Required.
GRE: Not required.
Published prerequisites
- BSN or MSN (direct entry) from nationally accredited institution
- Minimum cumulative nursing GPA and science GPA of 3.0/4.0
- CCRN certification (adult or pediatric) by time of application
- Current BCLS, ACLS, and PALS certifications
- Minimum 1 year (preferably 2 years) full-time critical care RN experience
- Statistics course completed within 5 years of program start
- Unencumbered U.S. RN license
- Casper assessment
- 3 employer recommendation forms
- Essay response (max 250 words)
- Virtual and in-person interviews
Deadline and Timeline
Applications close December 15, with applications opening September 1, 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
$131,950 for the whole program, billed as $14,661 a semester across nine semesters. The rate is the same for residents and non-residents.
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% first-time for the 2025 cohort, after 90% for 2024
Attrition: one student in the 2025 cohort and none in 2024
Employment: 100% within six months for both cohorts
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 Marquette Compares in Wisconsin
Apply in-state where you can, since residency usually moves tuition more than any other lever. See all Wisconsin CRNA programs, or start with these:
| Program | City | Degree | Cost | Acceptance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edgewood University | Madison | DNP | $149,000 | 15% |
| Mayo Clinic Health System–Franciscan Healthcare School of Anesthesia | La Crosse | DNP | Varies | N/A |
| University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh | Oshkosh | 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 Marquette 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.
- https://www.marquette.edu/grad/nurse-anesthetist-dnp.php
- https://www.marquette.edu/grad/nursing-faq-anesthesia-dnp.php
Programs change requirements and prices between admission cycles. If something here no longer matches the program site, tell us and we will fix it.