Studying with EKU from Indiana: enrollment, clinicals and licensing
Hoosiers can join any EKU online nursing program, from the RN to BSN up through the nurse practitioner concentrations, their certificate versions and the post-master's DNP. Indiana's Board of Nursing oversees only programs that lead to a first license, so for an Indiana student the working questions are the collaborative agreement behind your preceptor's practice and the license you carry into clinicals.
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Indiana on EKU's authorization page
| EKU program | Indiana status | What EKU's table shows |
|---|---|---|
| FNP (MSN) | Yes | Meets Requirements |
| PMHNP (MSN) | Yes | Meets Requirements |
| Post-MSN certificates | Yes | Meets Requirements, via the shared MSN table |
| DNP, post-master's | Yes | No licensure table; Indiana is on EKU's unrestricted SARA list |
| RN to BSN | Yes | Meets Requirements |
EKU attaches no Indiana note to any program. Status can shift, though, and EKU cautions that a move once you have applied or enrolled could cost you your place, so revisit EKU's state authorization before a clinical term or any move.
Indiana's board and graduate programs
Indiana licenses nurses through a State Board of Nursing housed in its Professional Licensing Agency, and the board's accrediting work covers in-state schools preparing candidates for an initial RN or LPN license. Graduate education is outside its remit by its own account: the board's education page puts RN-BSN and graduate nursing programs beyond its review, and the administrative code section on qualifying programs, 848 IAC 1-2-4, addresses prelicensure schools alone. Nothing in our research points to an Indiana filing that an out-of-state RN to BSN, master's or doctoral program must make before its students train there.
So EKU's own process governs your Indiana placement. Under Kentucky's APRN program regulation, securing preceptors is EKU's responsibility and you keep room for input, which the Kentucky preceptor rule page explains in full. EKU's catalog, for its part, asks you to report where any supervised placement outside Kentucky will take place.
Collaboration and where Indiana NPs practice
AANP counts Indiana as Reduced Practice, since every Indiana NP must keep a state-regulated agreement to collaborate with a physician on at least part of their practice. For you as a student, that agreement is part of the clinical picture: it frames how your preceptor works, and asking about it early helps you make sense of the prescribing decisions you watch.
The Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood metro is the state's largest, home to about 2.21 million people in 2025. About 729,000 Indiana residents belong to the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin metro in the northwest, and Fort Wayne's metro holds about 466,000. Parkview Health, Franciscan Health, Community Health Network, Indiana University Health and Ascension St. Vincent are among the state's large systems. Each writes its own terms for students from other schools; whether EKU students train at any of them is not something the systems or EKU publish.
Southern Indiana and the Louisville metro
About 281,000 Hoosiers live inside the Louisville/Jefferson County metro, which straddles the Ohio River. Baptist Health runs facilities in both Kentucky and southern Indiana, and the Louisville systems on the Kentucky side publish their own rules for advanced practice students, summarized in the Kentucky guide.
A Louisville practice would be a Kentucky placement, so your preceptor there would be licensed by Kentucky, and EKU's out-of-state reporting step would not apply. Nothing on EKU's public pages addresses training across a state line from your home, so talk to your faculty before putting a Kentucky site forward.
Licensing for Indiana clinicals
Compact licensing reached Indiana in mid-2020, with implementation on July 1 of that year. As an Indiana resident you can train at home and in other member states on one multistate RN license, while APRN licenses remain state-issued because the APRN Compact has not started operating. Each RN license you carry must be unencumbered in EKU's eyes, and the RN license and Nursys guide explains that rule and e-Notify.
Why Indiana students in EKU's programs choose us
We search where you actually live, from Indianapolis and the Fort Wayne area to the northwest corner and the river counties near Louisville, for a preceptor whose practice fits your EKU course and whose clinic days fit your job. Your placement advisor verifies the license, asks the site about EKU's clinical contract before you commit, and assembles the preceptor details EKU reviews, so the option you offer is ready for a decision. If a preceptor has to bow out mid-term, we begin looking for a successor at once. Start with your county and program.
Questions EKU students ask
Does Indiana make EKU register before I start clinicals there?
Indiana's Board of Nursing describes its approval role as limited to prelicensure RN and LPN programs, and it names RN-BSN and graduate programs as outside its review. Our research found no Indiana filing for an out-of-state graduate program. EKU's own page lists Indiana with no restriction, and the catalog asks you to report your placement's location.
Is EKU's RN to BSN available to Indiana nurses?
Yes. EKU's RN-BSN licensure table lists Indiana as meeting requirements, with no Indiana note. Its lone clinical course is NSC 442C, which an archived handbook put at 60 clock hours spread over eight weeks, and EKU says RN to BSN students may base the capstone clinical project where they already work. The RN to BSN clinical guide has the details.
Does my Indiana multistate license cover clinicals in Kentucky?
For your own RN practice, yes, since Indiana and Kentucky are both compact members. It says nothing about your preceptor, who needs Kentucky licensure to practice at a Kentucky site, and it does not settle whether EKU will place you outside your home state. Clear the idea with your faculty before you propose a Kentucky site.
Will I need a collaborative agreement as a new NP in Indiana?
Under Indiana's current law, as AANP summarizes it, an Indiana NP works under a physician collaboration agreement that the state regulates, covering some part of practice. Licensing after graduation runs through the Indiana State Board of Nursing. Your rotations are a good chance to see how an Indiana practice structures the agreement before you sign one yourself.
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Last checked 2026-09-25
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