Anatomy and Physiology I
Self-paced online Anatomy and Physiology I course (Biology 211). NCCRS recommends 3 semester credits; each college decides how it applies them.
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Which Mississippi nursing programmes take online A&P labs? How to ask before you enrol
By the team. Checked 15 Nov 2026.
The short answer
No public list says which Mississippi programmes count an online anatomy and physiology lab for nursing. Each school of nursing decides. UMMC lists A&P as two sequenced courses with labs and excludes survey courses for non-majors; Southern Miss lists lecture and lab separately. Email your programme in writing, naming the course and its lab, before you enrol.
What the admission pages say
Mississippi programmes describe A&P in slightly different ways, and the wording matters for an online lab. UMMC's 2025-2026 catalog lists Human Anatomy and Physiology as two sequenced courses with labs, 8 hours in total, needs a C or better in each and says A&P taken more than 10 years ago may not count. It also says science survey courses or courses for non-science majors do not count.
Southern Miss lists the lecture and lab as separate courses on its RN-BSN checklist: BSC 250 with BSC 250L, and BSC 251 with BSC 251L, alongside the matching Mississippi community college numbers. Coahoma Community College asks LPN applicants to finish A&P I and II, lecture and lab, before admission. None of these pages says whether an online lab counts.
Why the lab question is harder than the lecture question
A lecture course is judged mostly on content and level. A lab is judged on what you actually did: dissection or models, slides, measurements, and how the work was checked. Many programmes have a view on that which is not written on the admission page. Some count online labs from a regionally accredited college; others want a campus lab. Asking is the only way to know.
UPI Study's A&P labs are separate 2-credit online courses, NCCRS-recommended, next to 3-credit lecture courses. A programme that lists a 4-credit A&P with lab may count the pair, count only the lecture, or count neither. Ask how it would treat that split.
Who to ask
Write to the office that reviews transfer work for your programme, not to a general enquiries line. Useful contacts are:
- The school of nursing's admissions or student services office.
- The university's transfer credit or registrar's office, if nursing refers you there.
- For an LPN-to-RN route at a community college, the ADN programme director's office.
- Your academic adviser, if you are already a student there.
An email you can send
Keep it short and specific. Subject: Prerequisite question for [programme, term]. Then: I plan to apply to [programme] for [term]. Before I enrol, could you confirm in writing whether these courses would meet your Anatomy and Physiology prerequisite via a college transcript? Anatomy and Physiology I, 3 credits, NCCRS-recommended, plus Anatomy and Physiology I Lab, a separate 2-credit online course; the same pair for A&P II. The credit would be reviewed and recorded by a college that considers recommended credit. Would a grade be needed for your GPA, and do you have an age limit on A&P?
Save the reply with your application papers. If they ask for a syllabus, send it.
If the answer is no
Take A&P at a Mississippi community college or the university itself. The course will carry a letter grade on a college transcript, which helps where a programme ranks on GPA. You may still use online courses for general education such as Statistics or Psychology, if the programme agrees to those.
If the answer is yes
Ask the programme which college transcript it needs to see. TESU and UoPeople are partner colleges that consider ACE-recommended or NCCRS-recommended credit, and each sets its own rules and fees. The credit reaches your programme via a college transcript, so leave time for that review before the deadline. UPI Study does not offer Microbiology with lab, Nutrition, Lifespan Development, Organic Chemistry or Pharmacology, and no course here gives clinical hours.
What to ask in writing
Before you enrol
Ask your Mississippi nursing programme's admissions or transfer office in writing whether each named UPI Study course, including a separate online lab, would meet a listed prerequisite via a college transcript, and how it would be graded, before you enrol.
UPI Study is not a college and is not accredited. ACE and NCCRS review our courses and recommend credit; a college decides whether to give that credit and records it on its own transcript.
ACE and NCCRS have over 2,100 cooperating colleges that will consider accepting credits; the final decision is with the universities.
Questions people ask
does ummc count online anatomy and physiology labs
UMMC's catalog does not say. It lists A&P as two sequenced courses with labs, needs a C or better, and says survey courses for non-science majors do not count. Ask the UMMC School of Nursing in writing, naming the course, its credits and that the lab is a separate online course, before you enrol.
is a 3-credit a&p lecture plus a 2-credit lab the same as a 4-credit a&p
Not automatically. Some programmes add the two and count them as one course with lab; others want a single course or a campus lab. UPI Study sells the 3-credit lecture and 2-credit lab separately, both NCCRS-recommended. Ask your programme in writing how it would treat that split.
what should i include when i ask a nursing programme about an online lab
Name the course and lab, the credits, that the recommendation is NCCRS, that the lab is online, and that a college would record the credit on its transcript. Ask whether a letter grade is needed and whether there is an age limit. Ask for the answer in writing.
Courses that fit
ACE-recommended or NCCRS-recommended courses, studied online at your own pace.
Anatomy and Physiology I Lab
Self-paced online Anatomy and Physiology I Lab course (Biology 211L). NCCRS recommends 2 semester credits; each college decides how it applies them.
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Ask your programme in writing first, then take only the courses it agrees to consider.
Sources
- IHL: Mississippi Nursing Degree Programs Accreditation Standards (effective 15 August 2024) (official)Authority under Miss. Code 37-129-1; Standard III admission models for associate degree (ACT 18 and 2.0 GPA, or 12 semester hours in the nursing major including A&P with C or better and 2.5 GPA, or holistic Model Three) and bachelor's programmes (ACT 21 with C in each prerequisite and 2.0 GPA; RN or bachelor's holders without ACT with C and 2.0; Model Two C and 2.5). Checked on 15 Nov 2026.
- UMMC 2025-2026 catalog: Accelerated Nursing BSN (official)Prerequisites include Microbiology with lab (4), two sequenced A&P courses with labs (8), College Algebra (3), Statistics (3), General Psychology (3), Introductory Sociology (3), Human Growth and Development (3), English Composition (6); C or better in each and 2.0 GPA; A&P older than 10 years may not count; science survey courses do not count. Checked on 15 Nov 2026.
- Southern Miss School of Professional Nursing Practice: RN-BSN prerequisite checklist (March 2026, unofficial review sheet) (official)RN-BSN prerequisites: A&P I and II with separate labs, Microbiology with lab, Composition I and II, an arts appreciation course, two humanities courses, College Algebra, Nutrition, General Psychology, Statistics (title must include 'Statistics'), Developmental Psychology, Principles of Sociology, The Family, Public Speaking. Checked on 15 Nov 2026.