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2024-2025 Catalog 
  
2024-2025 Catalog

Information for Master’s Program in Health Science


Faculty

Jose Castillo

Brian Cornelius

Ashlee Ericksen

Terri Kane

Brian Koonce

James Schmidt

Scott Shaffer

Nate Stortroen

Dale Telgenhoff

Tito Tubog

Admission to the Master of Health Science

The Master of Health Science degree is designed to provide a degree option for students who were admitted to, and enrolled in, but did not complete the Baccalaureate to DNAP Program (eDNAP) at Texas Wesleyan University.

This degree options is available to students who have completed at least three terms (43 credit hours) in the Baccalaureate to DNAP Program (eDNAP). These students do not qualify to enter the Phase II curriculum of the DNAP Program.

Students awarded this degree are not eligible to apply to complete the National Certification Examination administered by the National Board of Certification and Recertification for Nurse Anesthetists.

Admission Criteria

For Baccalaureate to DNAP (eDNAP) students:

  • Students accepted into the Baccalaureate to DNAP (eDNAP) program and have failed to progress
  • Student completing at least 43 of the 92 credit hours of the Baccalaureate to DNAP Program (eDNAP)

Application Process

The following documentation must be submitted:

  • Documentation from the program director demonstrating dismissal from the eDNAP program and a request for the MHS to be awarded.

Graduation Requirements for the MHS

Master of Health Science

To qualify for graduation a student must demonstrate satisfactory completion of:

  • All course requirements with a cumulative grade point average of 2.7 on a 4.0 scale;
  • At least 43 hours of graduate level coursework from Texas Wesleyan University;
  • All financial obligations to the program, including the graduation fee*; and
  • All published program requirements.

*The graduation fee must be paid even if the graduate does not participate in the commencement ceremony.