WNC Regionally Increasing Baccalaureate Nurses (RIBN) Program will dually admit and enroll you at Western Carolina University and A-B Tech and provide you with a four year, seamless associate to baccalaureate nursing education. Unlike in a traditional BSN program, you will have the opportunity to begin working as an RN at the start of your fourth year in this option and pay mostly community college tuition rates for the first three years of your baccalaureate nursing education.

WNC RIBN makes a bachelor’s degree in nursing both affordable and accessible. The first three years of WNC RIBN will be hosted on A-B Tech’s main Asheville campus, with one class each semester taken online through WCU. Upon successful completion of the first three years, you will then finish your fourth year of classes through WCU at A-B Tech’s Enka Campus.

Students applying to the WNC RIBN must meet admission requirements of both A-B Tech and Western Carolina University.

Students interested in the WNC RIBN should contact:
Carol Douglas, RIBN Nursing Advisor
email: cdouglas@abtech.edu  
phone: (828) 254-1921 ext. 7534