Teaching and Learning Toward Tomorrow

According to the Canadian Nurses’ Association, 37-57 per cent of new nurses leave the profession within the first two years of practice. Nursing admission is highly competitive at UCalgary where demand has driven the admitting average over 90 per cent. Given the demand for nurses to stay in the field, the faculty is implementing a new approach to selecting qualified students for the program. Effective for the Fall 2026 semester, the Faculty of Nursing will move to a lottery admission process where students with an overall average of 82 per cent and above, in the required pre-requisite courses, will be entered into the nursing admission lottery. A computerized system will randomly select applicants at various times in the admission cycle until all seats are filled.