Undergraduate grade point average and graduate record examination scores: The experience of one graduate nursing program

Nursing Education Perspectives

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 327-331

  Newton, Sarah E ^a   Moore, Gary ^a  

^a OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Admissions decisions; Benchmarking; Grade point average; Graduate record examination; Graduate school

Indexed keywords

EID: 37649009343     PISSN: 15365026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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