OSUIT nursing program maintains 100% NCLEX pass rate for three consecutive years

Friday, February 20, 2026

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Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology's  nursing program graduates are passing their licensing test to become professional registered nurses at an exceptionally high rate.

One hundred percent of nursing graduates from OSUIT passed the National Council Licensure Examination for registered nurses (NCLEX-RN) in 2022, 2023 and 2024, according to Jodi Campbell, OSUIT assistant dean for health sciences and director of nursing.

They are on track to meet this benchmark again for 2025 graduates with one student left to test, Campbell said.

“NCLEX is the licensing test that allows you to actually practice as a nurse. You have to graduate from an accredited program, and then you have to take the national licensing exam before you're eligible to actually get your nursing license,” Campbell said. “You are not a registered nurse until you have passed the NCLEX.”

For accreditation purposes, both state and national, the nursing program tracks first-time NCLEX-RN pass rates and overall NCLEX-RN pass rates.

"Not every student will pass the first time, even if they are educationally prepared,” Campbell said. “It's an incredibly difficult exam, and tracking overall pass rates allows us to show the quality of our graduates and our program without relying on the single indicator of one exam attempt.

“It's a marker of the quality of our program and the quality of our instruction, and you can think of it kind of as an insurance policy for graduates. When they choose OSUIT, they know that if they make it through our program, which is admittedly rigorous, as all nursing programs are, that they are incredibly well-positioned to actually pass that licensing exam and become practicing nurses.”

Because Oklahoma is part of the Nursing Compact, all nurses who graduate from OSUIT can carry a multistate license and are eligible to work as an RN in any of the 43 U.S. jurisdictions that have joined the compact, which includes the states surrounding Oklahoma, such as Arkansas, Texas, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico.

OSUIT’s nursing program has 159 students. The program does not track graduates’ long-term job locations. However, 100% of the graduates who responded to an alumni survey, which was sent six months to a year after graduation, were employed in Oklahoma.

Campbell attributes the graduates’ high NCLEX-RN pass rate to the nursing program’s top-notch faculty.

“We have an incredibly dedicated and cohesive faculty group that is very student-focused and student-friendly. We do everything we can to work with the students and adjust where we can,” she said.

The nursing program faculty is mindful of their students’ responsibilities beyond the program, but they do what they can to help the students succeed in nursing.

“We do a lot of outreach. We do extra tutoring. We also keep up with them after graduation to check in with them on their NCLEX preparation and try to keep them on target for being successful on the exam,” Campbell said.