Please Note: Students may only apply to and participate in one (1) guaranteed admissions program, as each program has distinct eligibility criteria. Additionally, students should apply only to the university program for their intended transfer institution.
Career & College Promise (CCP) Dual-Enrollment program students are not eligible to apply for guaranteed admissions programs until they have graduated from high school and enrolled at Mitchell Community College as traditional students.
Bulldog Bound
Bulldog Bound is a co-admission agreement with community colleges to provide direct-entry pathways to Gardner-Webb upon graduation from community college.
Bulldog Bound provides the following benefits for community college students:
- Coordinated federal and state financial aid;
- Waived application fee for GWU admission;
- Coordinated degree completion so students who maintain established academic standards move seamlessly to GWU to complete upper-division coursework;
- On-site admissions and academic advising; and
- Access to a community college liaison on the community college campus who serves as a point of contact for the co-admission program, helps identify and recruit eligible students, facilitates visits, and serves as a liaison to the Division of Enrollment Management at GWU.
- Be an admitted or current Mitchell Community College student
- Click here or the button below to complete the Bulldog Bound Interest Form
De’Angelia N. Huggins
Educational Partnerships Liaison
Eason Student Services Center, Room 107D
dhuggins@mitchellcc.edu | (704) 878-4262
Nursing Bridge Program
The North Carolina Community College Bridge to Professional Advancement in Nursing Agreement with Gardner-Webb University provides a seamless ASN-to-DNP pathway for North Carolina Community College nursing students.
Transfer Pathway: ADN/ASN to DNP
Students who are accepted into the North Carolina Community College’s ADN program are dually accepted into the Davis RN-to-BSN program in the Hunt School of Nursing at Gardner-Webb with a seamless pathway to the Master of Science in Nursing
(Education/Administration/Dual – MSN/MBA) or Doctor of Nursing Practice (Family Nurse Practitioner/Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner).
By collaborative agreement between the North Carolina Community College and Gardner-Webb University, community college students in the ADN program are automatically accepted into the Hunt School of Nursing’s Davis RN-BSN program, conditional upon meeting admission criteria.
Upon receipt of admission documents, an enrollment representative from Gardner-Webb will contact the student to assist with registration for classes.
Upon successful completion of the Davis RN-to-BSN program, students may be seamlessly enrolled in the MSN (Education/Administration/Dual – MSN/MBA) or Doctor of Nursing Practice (Family Nurse Practitioner/Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner).
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing
- Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing
- Davis RN-to-BSN
- Master of Science in Nursing (Administration, Education, Dual MSN/MBA)
- Doctor of Nursing Practice, Post Masters
- Doctor of Nursing Practice, Family Nurse Practitioner
- Doctor of Nursing Practice, Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
- To be considered for acceptance into the bridge program, the community college ADN students submit in writing to the Director of Nursing their consent for the community college to share the student’s application/admission documents with GWU. Upon receipt of these documents, an enrollment representative from GWU will contact the student to assist with registration for classes.
- Students admitted to the Bridge to Professional Advancement in Nursing must meet admission requirements of the Associate Degree in Nursing at the community college and Gardner-Webb University.
- Gardner-Webb University’s Enrollment Management Office and Registrar Services will accept the community college’s official application/admission documents as official copies of Gardner-Webb University application/admission documents for the purpose of entering applicant data into the Gardner-Webb University student data systems as a dually admitted Bridge to Professional Advancement in Nursing student in both the North Carolina Community College and Gardner-Webb University.
- Gardner-Webb University will only process the applications of admitted applicants into the community college ADN program into the Gardner-Webb University student data systems after they have been accepted to the ADN.
- There is no application fee to Gardner-Webb University for Bridge to Professional Advancement in Nursing students
- All documents will be processed through the North Carolina Community College Registrar’s Office and official copies provided to Gardner-Webb University’s Enrollment Management Office.
- Each enrolling Gardner-Webb University student must have an immunization record on file at Gardner-Webb University (as required by law) before registration. Gardner-Webb University reserves the right to cancel admission offers to students who do not provide full documentation or meet the requirements for acceptance by the stated deadline.
- On the ADN-to-DNP pathway, the North Carolina Community College will serve as the home institution for students’ enrollment until they have completed their ADN, and Gardner-Webb University will serve as the home institution for students who have completed their ADN and enrolled in the Davis RN-to-BSN.
- Dual admission and continued enrollment for each school will be ensured for Bridge to Professional Advancement in Nursing students each year by maintaining full-time status at the home institution as designated above.
- Students accepted into the Bridge to Professional Advancement in Nursing must meet the academic and professional requirements for eligibility to continue in the home institution as designated above.
Linda Wiersch, MSN, RN, CNE
lwiersch@mitchellcc.edu | (704) 878-3302