Regis College FNP Programs | Family Nurse Practitioner

Regis College offers five Family Nurse Practitioner routes:

Online MSN
MSN Nurse Practitioner, Family Track (Weston campus)
Post-Master’s Certificate
Online BSN to DNP
Online MSN to DNP

Program Tracks Overview

Program	Est. Tuition	Est. Duration	Credit Hours
MSN (Online)	$41.4K–$66.8K	2–3 years (26 months BSN entry, 34 months ADN)	39–63
MSN (Weston)	$63.4K	Not clearly stated	48
Certificate	$22.3K–$27.7K	About 1–2 years (14–22 months online; term count not published)	21 (Weston); online not stated
BSN-DNP (Online)	Not clearly stated	About 3–4 years (40–44 months; term count not published)	Not clearly stated
MSN-DNP (Online)	Not clearly stated	About 2–4 years (20–48 months; term count not published)	Not clearly stated

Tuition estimates multiply Regis’s published per-credit rates ($1,061 online, $1,320 Weston) by Regis’s published credit counts.

Regis runs the same FNP course sequence two ways and charges less for the online version. The identical specialty courses (NU 664B, NU 665B, NU 675B-X) cost $1,061 per credit online and $1,320 per credit at Weston, a $259 gap that compounds to $12,432 across a 48-credit master’s. Online students also get three entry points into the MSN, including associate-degree and non-nursing-bachelor’s entry, which the Weston track does not offer.

The trade-off is accreditation standing. ACEN’s most recent decision for Regis’s master’s, post-master’s certificate, and clinical doctorate nursing programs is continuing accreditation with conditions, while the baccalaureate program holds plain continuing accreditation. Every FNP route on this page falls under that decision, and Regis does not publish what the conditions are or when they are scheduled for review.

Quick Facts

Feature	Details
Program Types	MSN (online and Weston), post-master’s certificate, BSN-DNP, MSN-DNP
Format	Online routes are 100% online with no required campus visits. Weston MSN is hybrid.
Clinical Hours	800 total: 600 in two concentration seminars plus a 200-hour final immersion
Clinical Placement	Student-led search with clinical coordinator assistance. Not guaranteed.
Population	Family across the lifespan, with prescribed hours in four population areas
Distinctive Coursework	Elective choice from complementary therapy, psychopharmacology, childbearing, gerontology, teaching
Concentrations	FNP is one of six NP specialties offered; no sub-concentrations within FNP
RN License Requirements	Active unencumbered RN license. No clinical experience required for MSN entry.
Tuition	$1,061 per credit online; $1,320 per credit Weston MSN; $1,475 per credit Weston BSN-DNP
Accreditation	ACEN, continuing accreditation with conditions for master’s, certificate, and doctorate
Enrollment Restrictions	Nursing programs not offered in Louisiana, New York, Oregon, or Tennessee
Preceptor Incentive	One free course voucher per 240 hours precepted, valid two years

Online MSN – Family Nurse Practitioner

The estimated tuition for the online MSN Family Nurse Practitioner program at Regis College is approximately $41,379 to $50,928 for BSN-entry students (39 to 48 credits at $1,061 per credit), rising to roughly $57,294 to $66,843 for associate-degree and non-nursing-bachelor’s entrants (54 to 63 credits). The program can generally be completed in about 26 months from a BSN or 34 months from the other two entry points, with three start dates a year.

Online MSN Curriculum

The family-specific work is compact: four course codes sit on top of a graduate core shared with Regis’s other NP specialties. Northeastern uses a similar shared-core architecture in Massachusetts, but Regis does not price its certificate off it the way Northeastern does. At Regis the core matters mainly for sequencing, because the specialty seminars cannot start until the core is complete.

The credit range is the other thing to read closely. A 39-credit BSN-entry master’s is at the low end for an FNP degree, while 63 credits for associate-degree entry is on the high end. The spread is not a menu. Where a student lands depends on prior coursework, required bridge credits, and any general education gaps, which means the advertised cost range has a $25,000 spread built into it before a single course is chosen.

Shared graduate core

NU 606 Advanced Pathophysiology
NU 641 Advanced Clinical Pharmacology
NU 650 Advanced Health Assessment
NU 605 Concepts in Nurse Leadership
NU 631 The Scientific Inquiry for Evidence-Based Practice
HP 609 Health Policy, Politics and Perspectives
NU 668 Roles and Issues in APN

Family specialty sequence and elective

NU 664B Clinical Concentration Course, Primary Care of the Family I, with NU 664B-X seminar (300 clinical hours)
NU 665B Clinical Concentration Course, Primary Care of the Family II, with NU 665B-X seminar (300 clinical hours)
NU 675B-X Final NP Clinical Immersion Course (200 clinical hours)
One elective from NU 635 Complementary Therapy, NU 661 Care of the Childbearing Woman, NU 643 Advanced Psychopharmacology, HP 626 Gerontology Perspectives, or NU 670 Teaching and Learning Seminar

The elective slot is more useful than it looks. Advanced Psychopharmacology and the gerontology course both extend an FNP’s range into populations family practices actually see, and the childbearing course adds obstetric depth that the standard 150-hour women’s health rotation does not reach.

You Should Know

Regis lists NU 664B-X twice in the online FNP course listing rather than pairing the concentration course with its seminar. The course-coded structure elsewhere on the site shows 664B, 664B-X, 665B, 665B-X, and 675B-X.
Exact credit totals are published only as ranges. Regis states that the final curriculum is set individually, so neither the credit count nor the cost is fixed at application.
Up to nine graduate credits may transfer, three credits per course, at a grade of B- or better.

Online MSN Clinical Requirements

800 total clinical hours: 300 in NU 664B-X, 300 in NU 665B-X, and 200 in the final immersion course.
FNP hours are prescribed by population: 150 adult primary care, 150 geriatric primary care, 150 women’s health, and 150 pediatrics, of which up to 50 may be school-based.
A second published distribution uses 125 hours in each of the four areas plus 100 specialty hours, reaching the same 600 before immersion.
Roughly 300 hours are completed per semester, which Regis puts at 22 to 24 hours a week.
Clinicals begin in year two, after NU 641 and NU 650 are complete and an unencumbered RN license is on file.
Students may space hours across two to four semesters with program director approval.
Up to 100 hours may be completed in an acute setting. Urgent care and occupational health hours may count toward primary care with prior faculty approval.
Preceptors must be nurse practitioners for NP students. Midwives and physicians are considered case by case.
A current coworker may not precept unless the facility is large enough that the preceptor does not work directly with the student.
⚠ Regis’s online MSN FAQ states that online students typically complete 664 to 724 hours, which contradicts the 800-hour total its course listings and NP FAQ both produce.

At 800 hours, Regis sits 300 above the 500-hour national certification floor and about 100 above the top of the 600 to 700 range most FNP programs occupy. The prescribed population split is the more unusual feature. Many programs publish a total and leave the mix to the placement that materializes; Regis fixes minimum hours in four areas, which protects breadth but narrows what a single preceptor site can satisfy. A student working in one clinic will need multiple placements, and the pediatric and women’s health blocks are usually the hardest to source.

You Should Know

The 664 to 724 figure and the 800-hour figure cannot both be right. The difference is up to 136 hours, roughly half a semester of clinical work. Confirm the number in writing before enrolling.
Placement is a shared responsibility, not a guarantee. Regis states that students have a role in finding their own placements and may receive additional help from clinical coordinators.
Regis discourages placements at a student’s current workplace, though faculty may approve them.
Clinical costs beyond tuition include Castle Branch tracking, malpractice insurance, immunizations, drug screening, background check with FBI fingerprinting, CPR certification, and a physical every two years.

Online MSN Admissions

Regis admits from three starting points and requires no GRE, no prior NP experience, and no interview for the online route, which is a lower gate than the Weston track imposes.

BSN entry: bachelor’s in nursing from a regionally accredited institution and accredited program.
ADN entry: associate degree in nursing, plus 15 bridge credit hours at B or better, with possible general education requirements depending on prior coursework.
Non-nursing bachelor’s entry: bachelor’s degree plus an ADN and active RN license; general education is waived.
Active unencumbered RN license and a college-level statistics course before classes start.
Minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA preferred.
Transcripts from all post-secondary institutions, resume, statement of purpose, and two letters of recommendation.
Application fee of $75.

You Should Know

Regis states that its nursing master’s is not offered in Louisiana, New York, Oregon, or Tennessee. Its separate graduate licensure table lists Louisiana, New York, Puerto Rico, and Tennessee as not meeting requirements, and marks Oregon as meeting them. The two pages disagree on Oregon and Puerto Rico.
Regis is separately approved by the Washington State Nursing Care Quality Assurance Commission to conduct practice experiences in Washington for its FNP program.
Massachusetts Board of Registration in Nursing approval is published for the BSN and ASN programs only, not for the graduate NP programs.
The online deadline and start date currently published had already passed by mid-September 2026. Treat them as an annual cycle with three intakes and confirm the next one directly.

MSN Nurse Practitioner, Family Track (Weston)

The estimated tuition for the MSN Nurse Practitioner Family Track at Regis College is $63,360 (48 credits at $1,320 per credit), a figure Regis publishes directly. Duration is not clearly stated; the program runs on a two-semester calendar with a two to three week winter intersession rather than the three-term year the online program uses.

Weston MSN Curriculum

The Weston credit structure is fixed rather than ranged: 24 core credits plus 24 family credits. That arithmetic checks out against the published 48-credit total and the published $63,360 cost, which makes this the only Regis FNP route where the price is a published number rather than a derived one.

Core (24 credits): NU 601 Nursing Theory, NU 605 Concepts in Nursing Leadership, NU 606 Advanced Pathophysiology, HP 609 Health Policy, NU 629 Health Promotion and Disease Prevention I, NU 631 Scientific Inquiry, NU 641 Advanced Clinical Pharmacology II, NU 650 Advanced Health Assessment
NU 664B Primary Care of the Family I, 8 credits including 300 clinical hours
NU 665B Primary Care of the Family II, 8 credits including 300 clinical hours
NU 668 Role and Issues in APN, 3 credits
NU 675B-X Clinical Immersion, 2 credits including 200 clinical hours
Graduate elective, 3 credits

All core courses except HP 609 must be finished before the primary care sequence begins, which makes the sequence rigid. A failed or deferred core course does not cost a semester; it can cost a year, because the specialty sequence starts only when the whole core is cleared.

You Should Know

Regis’s course listing states that NU 675B-X applies only to students entering in fall 2025. If the immersion does not apply to later cohorts, the program would be 46 credits, $60,720, and 600 clinical hours rather than 800. Regis does not say what replaced it.
Regis’s 2026-27 tuition table lists the MS Nurse Practitioner rate as covering “five tracks,” while the program page describes six specialty tracks. The discrepancy is unexplained.
Prospective students may take up to two graduate courses before applying, including NU 601, NU 605, HP 609, or NU 606. This applies to the on-campus MS in Nursing only and does not guarantee admission.

Weston MSN Clinical Requirements

800 total hours under the same structure as the online route: 300, 300, and a 200-hour immersion.
Same prescribed family distribution: 150 hours each in adult primary care, geriatric primary care, women’s health, and pediatrics.
Recent placement sites named by Regis include Boston Children’s Hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Franciscan Hospital, and Rosie’s Place.
Regis describes collaborative clinical placement staff supporting on-campus students in pursuing placements.
Preceptors earn one free course voucher per 240 hours precepted, valid two years, with more than one voucher possible per year.

The named Boston teaching hospitals are the practical argument for the campus route. Regis still frames placement as collaborative rather than assigned, but the on-campus program gets staff support that the online description does not promise in the same terms. The preceptor voucher is worth naming separately: at $1,320 per credit, a three-credit course is roughly $3,960 of value handed to the clinician who takes a student on. For a nurse trying to recruit a preceptor in a crowded market, that is a concrete thing to offer.

Weston MSN Admissions

The campus route adds an interview and a hard GPA floor, and it accepts BSN holders only.

Designed for applicants who already hold a Bachelor of Science in Nursing.
Minimum undergraduate GPA of 3.0, stated as a requirement rather than a preference.
Completed prerequisite statistics course.
Interview required.
History of an unencumbered RN license required.
Resume, statement of purpose, two letters of recommendation, and transcripts from every institution attended.
Up to nine credits may transfer in.

You Should Know

Applications must be complete no later than two weeks before the term start date to be considered for that term.
The MetroWest Health Foundation offers scholarships up to $4,000 for students from 25 MetroWest towns, with fall and spring deadlines. It is a regional award, not a Regis award.
Regis labels the Weston MSN a hybrid with synchronous and asynchronous classes but does not publish how often students must be on campus or at what cadence.

Post-Master’s Certificate – Family Nurse Practitioner

The estimated tuition for the online Post-Master’s Certificate in Nursing is approximately $22,281 (derived from 21 credits at $1,061 per credit, using the Weston certificate’s published credit count since Regis does not publish credits for the online version). The Weston Family Post-Master’s Certification is published at $27,720 for 21 credits. The program can generally be completed in about 14 months for a certified NP adding a specialty, or about 18 months for an MSN-prepared nurse becoming an NP for the first time.

Certificate Curriculum

Regis splits the certificate into two entries that share the same specialty sequence but differ in how much core work carries over. Entry One, for MSN-prepared nurses who are not yet NPs, adds the graduate core. Entry Two, for practicing NPs adding family as a second population focus, skips most of it. Both run the identical NU 664B, NU 665B, and NU 675B-X sequence, so both complete the same 800 clinical hours.

Core for Entry One: NU 606 Advanced Pathophysiology, NU 641 Advanced Clinical Pharmacology, NU 605 Concepts in Nurse Leadership, NU 650 Advanced Health Assessment, NU 629 Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, NU 668 Roles and Issues in APN
NU 664B and NU 664B-X, Primary Care of the Family I (300 clinical hours)
NU 665B and NU 665B-X, Primary Care of the Family II (300 clinical hours)
NU 675B-X Final NP Clinical Immersion (200 clinical hours)
One elective: NU 635, NU 661, NU 643, HP 626, or NU 670

The clinical load is the headline here. A certificate that carries the full 800 hours is doing the same patient-contact work as the master’s, which is the right design for certification eligibility but removes the “quick add-on” assumption some NPs bring to a second population focus. Fourteen months with 800 hours means clinical weeks of 22 to 24 hours while already working as an NP.

You Should Know

Regis does not publish a credit count for the online certificate. The $22,281 figure above is derived from the Weston certificate’s 21 credits and should be confirmed with an advisor.
Regis states that students may transfer “maximum credit hours” from a prior MSN without defining the maximum, so both the credit count and the price are unsettled at application.
The published Castle Branch clinical fee is $165 on the certificate page and $182 on the BSN-DNP page.
A telehealth description appears in the certificate specialization list without being attached to a named specialty. Whether telehealth coursework is available within the FNP certificate is not clearly stated.
State boards set their own rules for recognizing a second APRN population focus. An NP adding family certification should confirm with the board in the state of practice before enrolling.

Certificate Admissions

MSN from a regionally accredited institution and accredited program.
Active unencumbered RN license; minimum 3.0 cumulative GPA preferred.
Entry Two applicants add proof of NP board certification, APRN state licensure, prescriptive authority, DEA copy if applicable, and clinical logs.
Transcripts, resume, statement of purpose, and two letters of recommendation.

Online BSN to DNP – Family Concentration

Tuition for the online BSN to Doctor of Nursing Practice is published at $1,061 per credit, but Regis does not publish a credit total for the program, so no reliable estimate can be given. The program can generally be completed in 40 to 44 months, with three start times a year.

BSN-DNP Curriculum

The doctoral route layers a research and scholarship sequence on top of the same FNP specialty courses. Students take the NP core, then informatics, epidemiology and biostatistics, cultural perspectives, two advanced research methods courses, and a four-part DNP project, alongside NU 664B, NU 665B, and NU 675B-X.

NU 710 Informatics in Health Care
NU 713 Epidemiology/Biostatistics
NU 716 Cultural Perspectives in Health Care
NU 726 and NU 727 Advanced Research Methods for EBP I and II
NU 740, NU 741, NU 742, NU 743 Scholarly DNP Project I through IV
NU 623 Regulatory Issues: Nurse Leadership
Family sequence: NU 664B, NU 664B-X, NU 665B, NU 665B-X, NU 675B-X
One elective from NU 661, NU 670, NU 635, NU 643, or HP 626

Compare this against the online MSN and the picture is clear: the doctorate adds a scholarship spine and roughly 14 to 18 additional months, but the family specialty courses and the 800 clinical hours are identical. The DNP buys credential and research training, not more patient contact.

You Should Know

No credit total is published for the online BSN-DNP, so the all-in cost cannot be derived. Regis’s campus BSN-DNP rate is $1,475 per credit, $414 above the online rate.
Regis publishes a $182 Castle Branch nursing clinical fee for this route.
Admission requires a BSN from a regionally accredited institution and accredited program, a statistics prerequisite, an active unencumbered RN license, and a preferred 3.0 GPA. No GRE.

Online MSN to DNP – Family Concentration

Tuition for the online MSN to Doctor of Nursing Practice is published at $1,061 per credit with no published credit total, so no reliable estimate can be given. The program can generally be completed in 20 to 48 months depending on which of three entry points applies and how much co-requisite coursework is outstanding.

MSN-DNP Curriculum

The 20 to 48 month span is the fact to plan around. It reflects three different entry profiles: a certified NP pursuing the doctorate alone sits at the short end; a master’s-prepared nurse who is not an NP and must add the full advanced practice core plus the family sequence sits at the long end. Regis lists co-requisite blocks for each entry, and a non-NP entrant picks up NU 629, NU 606, NU 668, NU 641, and NU 650 on top of the doctoral core.

Doctoral core: NU 710, NU 713, NU 716, NU 726, NU 727, and NU 740 through NU 743
Family concentration: NU 664B, NU 664B-X, NU 665B, NU 665B-X, NU 675B-X
Co-requisites vary by entry point and must be completed during the program if not held at admission

You Should Know

Regis’s 2026-27 campus tuition table lists an MSN-DNP rate only for the Leadership, Education, and Global Public Health tracks. No campus rate is published for MSN-DNP NP concentrations.
This is the one nursing program Regis states is unavailable in Louisiana, New York, and Oregon but not Tennessee, unlike the MSN, certificate, and BSN-DNP.
Regis repeats that additional courses may be required for every entry point, so the published duration and any derived cost are both provisional.

Tuition

Regis charges $1,061 per credit for all online graduate nursing programs, including the MSN, the post-master’s certificate, and both DNP routes. The Weston campus rates are separate and higher: $1,320 per credit for the MS Nurse Practitioner tracks and $1,475 per credit for the campus BSN to DNP. Regis publishes these campus rates on its graduate tuition and fees page for the 2026-27 academic year.

Route	Rate per Credit	Credits	Tuition
MSN online, BSN entry	$1,061	39–48	$41,379–$50,928 (derived)
MSN online, ADN or non-nursing bachelor’s entry	$1,061	54–63	$57,294–$66,843 (derived)
MSN Weston	$1,320	48	$63,360 (published)
Certificate, Weston	$1,320	21	$27,720 (published)
Certificate, online	$1,061	21 assumed	$22,281 (derived)
BSN-DNP online	$1,061	Not stated	Not clearly stated
MSN-DNP online	$1,061	Not stated	Not clearly stated

Confirmed costs beyond tuition:

Application fee: $75.
Castle Branch nursing clinical fee: $165 or $182, depending on the program page.
Graduation fee: $300.
Technology service and support: $580.
Textbooks: $100 to $300 per course, by Regis’s own estimate.
Student health insurance: $5,621, waivable with proof of coverage for students taking more than 6.75 credits.

Be aware that:

The $300, $580, and $5,621 charges are published on the general graduate fees page without being scoped by modality. Whether online students are billed the technology fee, the graduation fee, or the insurance charge is not clearly stated.
Regis states that rates are based on the 2026-27 academic year and that cost per credit and total cost are subject to inflation, so a multi-year program should be budgeted above the figures shown.
The published campus totals explicitly exclude fees.
Discounts are available at 15% for military, veterans, military spouses, and federal employees, and 10% for alumni and partner-employer staff. They cannot be combined with each other or with Regis scholarships.
Clinical compliance costs are additional: malpractice insurance, immunizations, drug screening, background check and FBI fingerprinting, CPR certification, OSHA and HIPAA certifications, and a physical every two years.
Graduate assistantships require enrollment in at least six credits and a 3.0 GPA.

The practical reading is that the online route is the cheaper one by a wide margin and the only one where the cost is genuinely uncertain. Against Weston’s published $63,360, a BSN-entry online master’s lands near $50,928 at the top of its credit range and closer to $41,379 at the bottom. That $9,500 internal swing, plus an unpublished fee scope, means two students in the same cohort can pay materially different totals. Ask admissions for a credit-by-credit plan of study in writing before committing, because at Regis the plan of study is the price.

Why Choose This FNP Program?

Best suited for nurses who want the widest possible set of on-ramps into family practice and are willing to do their own diligence on accreditation standing and clinical placement.

Entry breadth is the real product. Very few schools will take an associate-degree nurse, a non-nursing bachelor’s holder with an ADN, a BSN holder, an MSN holder, and a practicing NP and route all five into the same family specialty sequence. Regis does, and it does it at a single online rate. If a nurse’s credential history is non-standard, Regis is likelier than most to have a route that fits without a separate bridge enrollment elsewhere.

The online discount is unusual and it is large. Online delivery normally costs the same as or more than campus delivery. At Regis it costs $259 less per credit than the Weston MSN and $414 less than the campus BSN-DNP, while carrying the same course codes and the same 800 clinical hours. A nurse who does not need Boston hospital placements or in-person class time is paying less for substantially the same degree.

Two things should slow a decision down. The first is accreditation: ACEN’s continuing accreditation with conditions applies to every graduate nursing program at Regis, and the conditions are not published. This does not affect certification eligibility today, but it is a status a prospective student should ask about directly and get answered in writing. The second is placement. Regis does not guarantee clinical sites, prescribes hours across four population areas, and expects students to lead the search. Compared with a school that assigns placements, that is real work added to an already demanding program. The preceptor voucher helps, and the named Boston sites help on the campus side, but neither is a guarantee.

Set against the other Massachusetts options, the picture is a trade. Boston College assigns placements across a named teaching-hospital network and charges accordingly. MCPHS offers a comparable associate-degree route with a fixed 42-credit master’s and a published total, which is the cleaner arithmetic. Northeastern publishes its certificate credit range up front where Regis leaves it open, and UMass Lowell and UMass Amherst both come in well below Regis on per-credit cost at the public rate. Simmons is the choice for a nurse who wants live weekly classes rather than Regis’s asynchronous delivery. Regis wins on breadth of entry and on charging less online than on campus. It loses on how much is pinned down before a student enrolls.

Accreditation

The baccalaureate, master’s, post-master’s certificate, and clinical doctorate nursing programs at Regis College, both online and at the Weston campus, are accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN), 3390 Peachtree Road NE, Suite 1400, Atlanta, GA 30326. ACEN is one of two nursing accreditors recognized for advanced practice programs, alongside CCNE, and both are accepted by the national certification boards.

The accreditation decisions differ by program level. ACEN’s most recent decision for the baccalaureate program is continuing accreditation. Its most recent decision for the master’s, post-master’s certificate, and clinical doctorate programs is continuing accreditation with conditions. Conditions indicate that the accreditor has identified areas requiring follow-up while the program remains accredited. Regis does not publish the substance of the conditions or the review timeline, and every FNP route covered on this page falls under that decision.

Regis College is institutionally accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE). Institutional accreditation is what makes a school eligible for federal financial aid and what makes its credits transferable, so it matters separately from the nursing accreditation above. Regis is also a participating institution under the State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements, which is the mechanism that lets it enroll distance students across participating states.

Graduates of the FNP tracks are prepared to sit for the national FNP certification exam through either the American Association of Nurse Practitioners or the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Regis reports a 92% NP exam pass rate across its online and on-campus programs combined, a figure it does not break out by specialty.

More FNP Programs in Massachusetts

Boston College - Chestnut Hill
MCPHS - Boston
Northeastern University - Boston
Simmons University - Boston
University of Massachusetts Amherst - Amherst
University of Massachusetts Boston - Boston
UMass Lowell - Lowell