So she’s a high school student who has been accepted to 3 bsn nursing colleges. Her options are as follows: Stony Brook for $4,000, NYU for $20,000, and Emory University for $8,000. NYU and Emory are definitely better than Stony Brook so she’s trying to mainly decide between those two. She’s not sure which school she should go to because she’s born in New York and is definitely coming back to New York to work as a RN. Would it be better for her to stay in New York and go to NYU so she can intern in New York or will it be better for her to go to Atlanta, Georgia? I know Emory is better than NYU nationwise but I don’t know if Emory has the same prestige NYU has in New York. Is it better for her to stay in NYC and make connections or go to Atlanta knowing that Emory is cheaper and technically better?
All three schools allow admission directly to nursing school. The NCLEX pass rate for Emory is 95%, for NYU is 91%,and for Stony is somewhere in the 80s.
Also she might decide to become a nurse anesthesiologist after college and a couple years of work.
What are your opinions on all of this?
Please help! Thank you so much!
This is tough. Can you afford NYU only because she wants to return to NY. Emory looks like a great option though.
If she wants to get her master’s degree and become a CRNA then I would think the less debt for undergrad the better. A BSN is not worth a lot of debt.
The term is nurse anesthetist. An anesthesiologist is an MD, not a nurse. A physician who does a residency in anesthesiology.
I am a RN and I would go with the ones that have more successful NCLEX pass rates.
I think you have the NCLEX rates mixed up.
NYU - 85.4% / 2017; 80.4% / 2016; 85% / 2015
SB - 97.4% / 2017: 94.8% / 2016; 92.2% / 2015
Stony Brook is a fine nursing school and for that cost, you can’t beat it.
http://www.op.nysed.gov/prof/nurse/nurseprogs-nclexrn2013-17.htm
My daughter graduated from nursing school in December. Actually, I would be concerned with schools with extremely high NCLEX pass rates. They are probably cut throat overly competitive schools purposefully flunking out students who won’t pass on the first try. There is a nationwide problem with nursing schools having professors who are not supportive and that unneccessarily flunk out high numbers of students. Here in Texas the Higher Education Coordinating Board has set up a formal study and program to try to correct this.
Find out how may students enter each class and out of that number how many graduate. My daughter visited 7 nursing schools and narrowed it down to two that were both high quality and supportive. She went to a very highly ranked school on an honors scholarship that had supportive professors and low drop out rates. We had to do some sleuthing to get some of the information we needed.
Look up feedback on the schools on allnurses.com. Ask current students just hanging out, not the ones they have you meet at the info sessions. For one school I found a you tube video of a nursing school grad ceremony - 7 girls were in the ceremony. The school admitted 50-70 students per class. The speaker wouldn’t answer my question at the info session asking what their dropout rate was.
After you eliminate the high drop out rate schools then make your selection.
How ill your family pay the difference in costs for NYU or Emory? How easy is it for your family to come up with the cost of Stony Brook? Are the federal loans already included in the aid packages?
The high admission rates of students with lower test scores, lower GPA’s and less rigorous courses are found primarily in the “for profit” nursing schools. It has also occurred in other state schools where they allowed the standards of their programs to fall and this resulted in a drop in the percentage of first time NCLEX takers failing the exam. These institutions faced losing funding. If you search for highly ranked schools with direct admission nursing programs, you will receive a quality education and be prepared for the exam and practice in the profession.
I would suggest that you look more closely at SUNY Stony Brook.
Ask in http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/nursing-major/
Definitely consider Stony Brook
Another option. Scroll to the bottom for outcomes (95%) and great merit aid. Forbes Financial Rating of A. DNP program as well.
https://www.saintmarys.edu/academics/departments/nursing-science
I wouldn’t base my decision solely on the NCLEX pass rates. There are a lot of factors that play into those numbers and I don’t think they are ever 100% accurate in reporting. They can have 100 cohorts graduate in Spring 2017 and 90 pass which is a strong number. They may also have 20 others from Fall 2016 that didn’t pass but pass on the next round of testing which happens to be in the spring of 2017. That number factors into their overall pass percentage
The other school might only be recording their numbers and percentage for one cohort and not including students from past cohorts. Make sense?
I have an MSN. I’ve worked as an RN / CRNP my entire career and have also taught clinical groups. As an RN, I had countless precepting students from all of the local and not-so-local schools. By and larger, the smaller schools that focused more on clinical skills and knowledge were my better students that had more emphasis on the book stuff and theory. I’ve always worked in an ER and I’d rather have a B students any day of the week. I realize that is a pretty generalized statement but these students always seemed to be better suited for the ER life anyway.
If she is wanting to advance her degree and career, I’d make sure she got a good foundation in nursing and made good grades getting there. The CRNA programs around here are very competitive! And very expensive! I personally wouldn’t take out a huge college loan for a BSN.
From what others have posted, Stoney Brook should definitely be a contender.
Go to Stony Brook, especially if any of that NYU cost would have to be loans. Even if nclex rate isn’t the best possible measure, it’s clearly not a bad school for nursing.
The resources at Emory are fantastic, with state of the art medical facilities. I would not spend more for NYU, certainly. Emory *was a cutthroat nursing school decades ago, but cannot speak to the current climate.