What are the minimum requirements to get into a nurse-midwifery education program?
All programs accredited by the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) Accreditation Commission for Midwifery Education (ACME) require a bachelor’s degree for entry. Many also require that applicants be a registered nurse, although 22 programs currently have options for non-nurses. Many programs require that the bachelor’s degree be in nursing. Most programs have a limited number of spaces to admit new students each year because of the intensive faculty to student ratio needed to graduate quality nurse-midwives and midwives. It is, therefore, not unheard of for a prospective student not to be accepted the first time she/he applies to a nurse-midwifery or midwifery education program. Contact the program you are interested in directly about specific program prerequisites. (See our list of accredited programs and contact information at www.midwife.org/become_midwife.cfm.
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