Texas Wesleyan bills $115,000 in tuition across four program years and closes applications on November 1 for the following year's cohort. The GRE and the CCRN are both required, and your ICU year has to fall within three years of your planned start date. The class of 2025 passed the National Certification Exam at 93% on the first attempt against a 90% national average, with 9% attrition.
Every figure on this page was read off Texas Wesleyan 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.
Texas Wesleyan CRNA Program: Key Facts
| Degree awarded | Doctor of Nurse Anesthesia Practice (DNAP) |
|---|---|
| Program length | 36 months (12-month didactic + 4-month clinical transition + 20-month clinical) |
| Credits | Not published — verify on the program site |
| Start | Not published — verify on the program site |
| Application deadline | Opens April, due November 1, for the following year's cohort |
| Minimum ICU experience | 1 year minimum, within 3 years of planned start date |
| CCRN | Required |
| GRE | Required; combined Verbal+Quantitative score of 300 and Analytical Writing score of 3 strongly preferred |
| Minimum GPA | 3.0 or greater (overall or last 60 hours); science GPA 3.0+ strongly preferred |
| Class / cohort size | Not published — verify on the program site |
| Format | Hybrid: 12-month on-campus didactic phase (Fort Worth), then clinical placement at distributed sites in 8 states, minimum 800 cases, ~4 days/week clinical + 1 day/week classroom |
| Tuition (in-state) | Not published — verify on the program site |
| Tuition (out-of-state) | Not published — verify on the program site |
| Tuition (as published) | $115,000 tuition across the four program years (Year 1 $41,250, Year 2 $37,500, Year 3 $30,000, Year 4 $6,250 for 5 credit hours; 2026-27 rates) |
| NCE first-time pass rate | 93% first-time pass rate, Class of 2025 (vs 90% national average); 100% pass rate at 60 days |
| Attrition | 9.0%, Class of 2025 |
| Employment | 100% within 6 months of passing the NCE |
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, within three years of your planned start date. 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 on either the overall or the last 60 hours, with a 3.0 science GPA strongly preferred. 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: Required. A combined verbal and quantitative score of 300 is strongly preferred..
Published prerequisites
- Bachelor's degree from a fully accredited college or university
- College-level chemistry course (no lab required), grade B or higher, within 3 years of start
- College-level algebra course, grade B or higher
- Current unrestricted RN license
- Current BLS, ACLS, PALS certifications
Deadline and Timeline
Applications close opens in April and closes November 1, for the following year's cohort.
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
$115,000 in tuition across the four program years, at 2026-27 rates.
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: 93% first-time for the class of 2025, against a 90% national average
Attrition: 9% for the class of 2025
Employment: 100% within six months of passing the exam
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 Texas Wesleyan Compares in Texas
Apply in-state where you can, since residency usually moves tuition more than any other lever. 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% |
| 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 Texas Wesleyan 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://txwes.edu/admissions/graduate/nurse-anesthesia/ednap/
- https://txwes.edu/admissions/financial-aid--scholarships/cost-of-college/cost-of-attendance/
- https://txwes.edu/academics/school-of-health-professions/graduate-programs/nurse-anesthesia/program-statistics
Programs change requirements and prices between admission cycles. If something here no longer matches the program site, tell us and we will fix it.