UT San Antonio CRNA Program: 108.5 Credits, 36 Months

UT San Antonio's DNP in nurse anesthesia is a 108.5-credit, 36-month full-time program, and Texas residents paid $34,459 in tuition for the 2026-27 year against $65,195 for non-residents, with about $11,100 in fees on top. The hard floors are a 3.0 GPA on your last 60 hours, a 3.0 science GPA, one year of ICU and a GRE with at least 3.5 in analytical writing. The CCRN is not required. The program took its first class in fall 2024, so it has no pass, attrition or employment rates to show yet, and the next deadline is January 2 for a fall 2027 start.

Every figure on this page was read off The University of Texas at San Antonio's own pages on 28 October 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.

UT San Antonio CRNA Program: Key Facts

Key facts for the University of Texas at San Antonio nurse anesthesia program
Degree awarded	Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP), BSN to DNP - Nurse Anesthesia
Program length	36 months / 3 years, full-time
Credits	108.5
Start	Fall (fall classes began August 17 in the 2026-27 year)
Application deadline	January 2, for the Fall 2027 cohort
Minimum ICU experience	1 year minimum critical care experience as an RN
CCRN	Not required; can strengthen an application
GRE	Required, taken within 5 years of the deadline; minimum Analytical Writing 3.5; no minimum Verbal or Quantitative
Minimum GPA	3.0 on the last 60 credit hours, plus a minimum 3.0 science GPA
Class / cohort size	Not published — verify on the program site
Format	Full-time, on campus: first 18 months mainly in-person classroom instruction (select DNP core courses hybrid), then clinical residency with about one campus day per week
Tuition (in-state)	$34,459 resident tuition for award year 2026-27 (Fall 15, Spring 14.5, Summer 13 credit hours); fees of $11,095 are separate
Tuition (out-of-state)	$65,195 non-resident tuition for award year 2026-27 (Fall, Spring, Summer); fees of $11,095 are separate
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 one year minimum as an RN in critical care. 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 3.0 minimum on your last 60 credit hours, plus a separate 3.0 minimum science GPA. That is the floor for review, and the committee weighs the whole file from there.. 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 required, though the program says it can strengthen an application.

GRE: Required, taken within five years of the deadline. Analytical writing must be at least 3.5 or the application stops there. There is no minimum for verbal or quantitative, but both scores are weighed..

Published prerequisites

Statistics
Organic Chemistry or Biochemistry, completed within the last 5 years, lab not required

Deadline and Timeline

Applications close January 2, for a fall 2027 start, and the program starts in Fall, with classes starting in mid-August.

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

$34,459 in resident tuition for the 2026-27 year, or $65,195 for non-residents. Fees add about $11,100 a year on top. The school does not publish a total for all three years.

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 yet. The first class started in fall 2024 and has not graduated.

Attrition: not published yet

Employment: not published yet

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 UT San Antonio Compares in Texas

If UT San Antonio is on your list, price it against the rest of Texas before you commit an application fee. 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 The University of Texas at San Antonio's own pages on 28 October 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.