UT Tyler charges Texas residents $650 a credit hour across 117 credits, the largest credit load in this pilot, which works out to about $8,979 for a 12-hour semester. There is no GRE, but the CCRN is required and you need a current year of full-time critical care. The program has not graduated its first cohort, so it publishes no pass rate, attrition or employment figures yet.
Every figure on this page was read off University of Texas at Tyler'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.
UT Tyler CRNA Program: Key Facts
| Degree awarded | DNP-NA (Doctor of Nursing Practice in Nurse Anesthesia, dual certification with AGACNP) |
|---|---|
| Program length | 36 months |
| Credits | 117 |
| Start | Not published — verify on the program site |
| Application deadline | Applications open July 1, 2026; close January 15, 2027 |
| Minimum ICU experience | 1 year current full-time ICU experience (not including precepting time) |
| CCRN | Required |
| GRE | Not required |
| Minimum GPA | 3 |
| Class / cohort size | Not published — verify on the program site |
| Format | Not published — verify on the program site |
| Tuition (in-state) | $650 per credit hour (Statutory $50 + Designated $550 + Differential $50); e.g. $8,979 for 12 hrs, $11,061 for 15 hrs — 2026-2027 rates |
| Tuition (out-of-state) | $1,387 per credit hour (Statutory $478 + Designated $449 + Differential $460); e.g. $17,823 for 12 hrs, $22,116 for 15 hrs — 2026-2027 rates |
| 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 current year of full-time experience. 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 from accredited program
- Current unencumbered Texas RN license
- Chemistry, Organic Chemistry/Biochemistry, Physics courses with grade B or better
- Basic Statistics course, grade B or better
- Current BLS/ACLS/PALS certifications
- CCRN certification complete before application
- Minimum 1 year current full-time ICU experience
- Minimum 40 hours CRNA shadowing
- 3 professional recommendation letters (one from a practicing CRNA)
- Personal essay (APA style)
- Emotional Intelligence assessment
Deadline and Timeline
University of Texas at Tyler 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
$650 a credit hour for Texas residents at 2026-27 rates, about $8,979 for a 12-hour semester. UT Tyler publishes no single total.
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. The first cohort has not graduated.
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 UT Tyler Compares in Texas
Texas has other accredited options, and their requirements are not identical. 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 at Tyler'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.uttyler.edu/academics/programs/nurse-anesthesia-dnp-agacnp.php
- https://www.uttyler.edu/academics/colleges-schools/nursing/graduate/nurse-anesthesia/index.php
- https://www.uttyler.edu/academics/catalog/tuition/dnp-crna-tuition-and-and-fee-schedule/index.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.