The Uniformed Services University charges no tuition or fees to Department of Defense employees, and students take on a service obligation set by their sponsoring organization instead. Its 36-month DNP posted a 100% first-time pass rate on the National Certification Exam for the class of 2026, and 99.8% since the program began. It publishes almost none of the usual admissions detail, so treat the program office as the only reliable source on requirements.
Every figure on this page was read off Uniformed Services University (USU)'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.
Uniformed Services University CRNA Program: Key Facts
| Degree awarded | Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) |
|---|---|
| Program length | 36 months |
| Credits | Not published — verify on the program site |
| Start | Not published — verify on the program site |
| Application deadline | Not published — verify on the program site |
| 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 | Not published — verify on the program site |
| Class / cohort size | Not published — verify on the program site |
| Format | Not published — verify on the program site |
| Tuition (in-state) | Not published — verify on the program site |
| Tuition (out-of-state) | Not published — verify on the program site |
| Tuition (as published) | No tuition costs or fees for DoD employees; all students incur an obligated service commitment per their sponsoring organization's requirements (non-DoD federal employees told to contact program directors) |
| NCE first-time pass rate | 100% first-time pass rate (Class of 2026); 99.8% since program inception |
| Attrition | 8.3% (Class of 2026) |
| Employment | 100% within 6 months of graduation (Class of 2026) |
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.
No GPA minimum is published for this track. Doctoral nursing programs rarely admit below a 3.0, and admitted classes usually sit well above whatever floor exists.
CCRN: not published.
GRE: not published.
Published prerequisites
Uniformed Services University (USU) does not publish a prerequisite list on the pages we checked. Check the program site.
Deadline and Timeline
Uniformed Services University (USU) does not publish an application deadline on the pages we checked, so ask the program office for the current cycle.
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
no tuition or fees for Department of Defense employees. Every student takes on a service obligation set by their sponsoring organization, and non-DoD federal employees are told to contact the program directors.
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 class of 2026, and 99.8% since the program began
Attrition: 8.3% for the class of 2026
Employment: 100% within six months for the class of 2026
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 Uniformed Services University Compares in Maryland
If Uniformed Services University is on your list, price it against the rest of Maryland before you commit an application fee. See all Maryland CRNA programs, or start with these:
| Program | City | Degree | Cost | Acceptance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore | DNP | $155,000 | 7% |
| University of Maryland | Baltimore | DNP | $111,905 (resident) | 13% |
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 Uniformed Services University (USU)'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.