Hi, I’m from Pennsylvania so I do not know much about New York City colleges. I want to go to college in New York City for nursing. What would be a good school besides really tough schools like Columbia and NYU. I previously applied to NYU, Hunter, and Lehman. Are those good colleges? (I also applied to fordham and manhattan but they do not have a nursing program). Thank you!
The CUNY is a good system if you live at home and go to school. Housing is abysmal and the cost is high unless you are from NY and live at home.My advice is stay in PA.
I’d suggest you find an affordable college, study nursing, and then come to NYC to.work.
Hunter college has an outstanding nursing program that is not easy to get into. The school has undergraduate housing at its downtown campus, but there are likely more students than spots; housing is competitive. OOS tuition is over $17,000, and then you have to factor in room and board. If you can’t get into school housing, there are a variety of places to live… none of them are cheap. You might be looking at a $45,000 or more per year price tag ( tuition, room and board, spending money, travel, etc).
Lehigh will be just as pricey as Hunter, and is much easier if you live at home and commute. NYU will be even more money than these other schools.
My recommendation is to stay in Pa and work in NYC.
Lehman… not Lehigh. In any event… I would get my degree in Pa and then work in NYC.
Seton Hall is a 20 minute train ride from Manhattan in NJ. My son got a letter from them a few days ago offering a big enough scholarship to get the cost of tuition, room, and board down to around 28K.
You may want to run the Net Price Calculator at schools like Pace University in NYC, Molloy College in Rockville Centre (5 miles from NYC) and College of Mt St Vincent in the Bronx. However the high cost of living in the NYC area will be the deal-breaker. If you graduate with a nursing degree from Penn State you’ll have name recognition that should get you a job in NYC.
I’m from NJ and wanted to go to school in NYC for a decent amount of time. I know Manhattan pretty well because I worked there for 2 summers + have attended classes during the school year + music recitals + entertainment purposes. I live a reasonable commute away and was enticed by the idea of studying in such a cool city that has so much to offer…except apparently there are 0 affordable colleges to study pre-med, which is similar to nursing, if not easier to find colleges for.
The CUNY system is affordable (even for OOS), but it’s not the ideal college experiences, especially if you don’t have NYC housing already secured. You aren’t guaranteed housing at most of the CUNYs and even if you are, you aren’t necessarily near campus and since many students are commuters, the community feel can be kind of weak.
I visited Hunter College (which has a strong health program, and as above posters noted, great nursing)…and I hated it. I was so surprised; the location is amazing (very nice Upper East Side neighborhood I believe), but the interior is run down, the campus is compact, and the students are mostly here because of the price. When I toured other urban colleges, I never got this vibe because they were not commuter colleges. Urban PA schools are much different in my opinion (I used to live in PA so I am familiar with Temple, Drexel, West Chester etc.)…the community is much more college-like and vibrant compared to an in-and-out commuter campus.
Basically all of the other colleges in NY either have weak science programs (Fordham comes to mind), are in locations that aren’t what OOS people associate with NYC (Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, Harlem), or are very selective/expensive (Columbia, Barnard, NYU). I really like NYU’s area and they have a good science program…but I cannot justify the price for pre-med or nursing. And no one can really feel like Columbia or Barnard are anywhere near safeties.
I don’t recommend trying to go to undergrad in NYC. It’s expensive, complicated, and the education quality may not even be what you expect. Seton Hall is in one of the Oranges in NJ, which is nothing like NYC. Seton Hall and all of the NJ schools “near” NYC are suburban and although they may tout this easier “access” to NYC, trust me, the commute will prevent you from ever considering yourself an NYC student or NY person at all. Even though I know the area around where I worked so well, I could never consider myself a “New Yorker” simply because in the end, I live in NJ.
Sorry, this post is so long! I would consider applying to affordable PA schools…then branching into other states. Apply to NYU if you’d like, but don’t expect too much in terms of aid at least. Seton Hall has a decent nursing program…but keep in mind that the location is very suburban.
Good luck!
Temple has a great Nursing School, and you can enjoy an urban experience in Philly for much less money as a PA resident. It’s an easy, inexpensive trip to NYC aboard the “Fast” bus, and you can look for affordable lodgings for a weekend adventure in NYC now and then.
The CUNY schools have dreadful retention and graduation rates.
Mount Saint Vincent is excellent for nursing. If you want to travel a bit further, Molloy on LI and maybe even further Mount Saint Mary’s in Newburgh.
But in all honesty, it’s going to cost you more here in NY, especially housing.
As stated by others, PA has some very good schools for nursing. Have you looked at DeSales?
Health sciences and nursing at Hunter are not at the uptown campus… the health programs are on 25th Street and First Avenue ( Brookdale Campus). The nursing program is actually called the Hunter- Bellevue School of Nursing- Bellevue Hospital is right next door ( or a little down the street). The area, in my opinion, is great. It’s a bustling, vibrant area filled with medical students ( NYU Medical Center is also nearby) and other health care students. It’s a very different vibe than uptown.
The biggest issue, in my opinion, is room and board. There are undergraduate dorms which they reserve for students from far away, but if you can’t get housing you must look for it yourself. NYC housing is very expensive- the school gives out recommendations for apartments that cost $1500 … and UP… per month… per person…for a 12 month lease. The “cheaper” apartments get taken fast. There are other housing options in the city for students… But those options generally come with a year long wait list… and can also be pricey. I know a girl who lived ( just moved out) in “women only” housing near Penn Station and it was a room and bathroom with a month to month lease… she paid $1600 a month. The one nice thing was that this place served dinner ( included) every night. Hunter does not have a meal plan so regardless of where you live you will be spending $7 on a small bottle of salad dressing.
I would stay in Pa… You have great schools… and move to NYC once you graduate.
Take it from a NY’er you have no idea how bad the grocery situation is in Manhattan, not only cost but the amount of time it takes to go shopping.
People in NYC pay 2 or 3 times as much and incur huge stress over things middle class people outside the city take for granted.
@user4321 Housing costs are pretty reasonable because rents have not risen as suburban house prices have and restaurant prices are on par with the suburbs, but for other services prices are high. The stress you mentioned is self-induced.
If you are from NY you may know how to make it work… you can find “reasonable” housing with friends if you don’t mind being squished and/or inconvenienced, you can find more reasonable places to shop, you can develop expertise in finding lower cost restaurants and things to do… etc… The city is a great place, but it’s very expensive and it takes time to figure out how to lessen the costs. Parts of Brooklyn and Queens are now equally as expensive, as young people are now branching out of Manhattan.
If you are not from NY … you can have an added layer of stress while trying to figure it out… while at the same time trying to get through nursing classes.
The good thing is there really isn’t an unsafe or unappealing area left in Manhattan, so a crappy apartment somewhere still means a great neighborhood. Ironically, the Upper East Side is now a “value neighborhood” especially 3rd Avenue and East.
I am an RN , graduate of The College of Mount St. Vincent in Riverdale (part of the Bronx-on the Hudson River). Check out the website mountsaintvincent.edu . I f you love NYC and really want to be an RN, BSN, this will be the place. The price is right. It’s small and you will get alot of personalized attention. You can get cabs/Ubers to the subway and visit the City any time. Your clinicals will be in some of the best hospitals in the area. Call them up and talk about what you want- I am sure they will be helpful…Good Luck!