Re: FREE TUITION - FREE BSN - University of Arizona Originally Posted by suzanne4
This is not a new program, but again, you have to be accepted by the employer as well for a contract that lasts three years. And this is not something that many will even be willing to consider. Most are going to be interested in first offering this to their own employees first and this is exactly what has been done in the past. Just because it is posted, does not mean that all will get it. Als be aware that there are limits as to the number of students, there is never an unlimited number accepted to any of these programs. It is not going to work for all that apply for it.
Notice that it also requires that one already hold a Bachelor's degree in another field, and then they are also going to have to have completed all of the pre-reqs that are needed for this type of program.
So it is not as free as it seems.
This is quite likely a program to aid people who are pursuing second careers. MHO.
One of my pharmacy preceptors got his degree under similar circumstances; in the early 1970s, one of the University of Michigan campuses with a pharmacy school started a program where anyone with a bachelor's degree who had taken and passed all prerequisite classes was automatically admitted, regardless of GPA. He had a degree in biology and knew he didn't want to teach or go to medical school, so he chose this.
They had to discontinue it because within 2 or 3 years, they had way more applicants than they could possibly have taught with the resources they had.
BTW, it wasn't free, just easier to get in.
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