Why Are So Many Students Worried About Expensive Tuition

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I was reading other threads and I came across students who were accepted to private nursing schools but declined their acceptance because of the tuition.:nono: If nursing is your passion by any means necessary you should do everything to accomplish your goal. In NY, nurses start off with 70K+ a year:yeah:, so in a rough estimate its possible to pay off large loans within 5-10 yrs. The cheaper schools are much more competitive to get into. If you get accepted into NYU, PACE, LIU etc. just go for it. Is anyone with me on this?

How many people are still paying off the loan debt from their first degree?

How many people are still paying off the loan debt from their first degree?
My daughter graduated in 1997 with $28,000 in debt. She will have it paid off in 2011. She is counting the hours.
Specializes in Psych, LTC, Acute Care.
How many people are still paying off the loan debt from their first degree?

I am (raising my hand). I also have an additional $6000 credit card to pay off for charging my my RN degree. I am a new grad making 54k a yr(7p-7a) and I still work in LTC once a week. Day shift makes about 42k a yr. Sounds like okay money but when you take out benefits and pay Uncle Sam, you are luck to see $1500 biweekly for nights and $1200 for days.

costs vary around the country. impossible in pa to get bsn for total tuition of $15,000

costs at state universities is $15,000/year tutition plus another $10,000 for living expenses if living on campus

penn state: http://collegecostestimate.ais.psu.edu/isapi/collegecostestimate.dll/submit

temple: http://www.temple.edu/bursar/about/tuitionrates.htm

$15,000/yr tuition only = $60,000 /4yrs

+ $10,000/yr on campus housing = $40,000/ yrs

$60,000 to $ 100,000 4yr bsn degree

private colleges tuition + board :

drexel ~$40,000/yr

[color=#2200cc]la salle university $ ~26,000/yr

gwynedd mercy ~ 35,000/yr (only school with 2 asn+2 bsn option eastern pa)

[color=#67989c]holy family university tuition ~ 24,00/yr

villanova ~$45,000/yr

community colleges average 3 years to complete prequisites + major:

community college of allegheny county nursing program produces more nursing graduates than any other two-year college in the united states $1,800 - $3,302.40/ 18 credits/yr

rn program course progression.

tuition calculator

community college of philadelphia ~ $3,450/yr

delaware county--only dleaware county and chester co residents may attend nsg program ~ $2,045.00 -$3,485.00/yr ( sponsoring vs non sponsoring school district)

duquesne university 2 semesters health sciences, $28,423.00. $pitt 15,120.00 and that is just tuition.

You're joking, right? Regardless of how much money you can make AFTER school, you still have to pay that money NOW, plus somehow live day-to-day! Even if I am going to make a million after I get out, I still have to front the costs of getting there and somehow survive for the years before I can make ANY money.

A lot of us have to actually pay for tuition, books, lab fees, other school expenses, rent, food, transportation, medical bills etc. The more tuition costs, the more likely it is I won't be able to pay my rent. I got through with only $4500 in total loans. I can start working next month, and other than what the government is going to steal from me, I'll get to keep most of what I make.

Do you think any of your patients are going to care that you went to an expensive school?

Honestly I didn't know RNs out of NYS start at $22/hr, that is what LPNs over here start with. At New York Presbyterian Hospital-Cornell the RNs start with like $35/hr.

This is the Rochester area. They start new grads out at $22-25 hr. Sometimes you can get more if you have LPN experience. My facility starts new RNs out at $19/hr (LTC). If you look for a job out in the suburbs it is probably $2-3 cheaper. And some facilities at this time have a hiring freeze, although it seems that the hospitals are still hiring. LPNs start at about $15/hr...I'm making close to $18/hr after working 4 years. :wink2:

Like any other profession, nursing is also a job used to support the nurse and possibly the nurse's family, so economics matter.

If the would-be nurse already has adult obligations such as a family, older parents, etc, the burden of high tuition may be simply unbearable.

It certainly isn't the job of posters on a board to imply they aren't sufficiently passionate about nursing because they take a look at financial reality.

I never said people arent passionate about nursing if they look at the "financial reality." What I said is if nursing is your passion you would worry about the loans later and do what you have to do to become a nurse. That doesnt make someone not passionate about what they want in life. Some are just willing to make that extra sacrifice, that doesnt make them any less than the other person. I don't understand why people are getting offended and making a lot of sarcastic comments on this thread. I thought this site was made for aspiring nurses, and nurses to come together voice their opinions in a positive way. Some of you are coming across a little too cocky, its not that serious.

Feel free to spend YOUR money however YOU want, but please don't wag your finger :nono: at other people. It is none of your business. Why do you care anyway?

I WILL spend my money how I want and your right I don't care who pays high tuition to reach their goals. I was just voicing my opinion. I have my way of doing things and you have yours. Do what you want, you act like I called you stupid for not paying the high tuition. BTW this is just for you>>>:nono::nono::nono:

Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho, ASC.

"some are just willing to make that extra sacrifice"

Well, there you go. That may be the clue as to why some of us are responding more heatedly than you may have anticipated. None of us want to be told that we didn't go the extra mile or make the extra sacrifice that someone else felt was necessary to properly educate us in the nursing profession. Most of us (however we got to this point in our nursing careers) feel that we're doing OK. After all, we all passed the same boards, got hired for the same jobs, etc., etc.

Let's face it, the title of this thread (all by itself) sounds elitist. I dare to say that it is the rare nursing student who doesn't have to deal with (in one way or another) the costs of nursing school. Some of us even had to weigh the immediate financial needs of our families against the long-term benefits of our nursing career in order to pay our tuition/books/clinical fees. I'm guessing that you are one of those rarest of students who had no need to consider cost. If that is true, then you might benefit from broadening your sense of the world at large. At the very least, you might consider concealing your surprise when you disclose your unfamilarity with financial realities.

Another aspect to consider is age. At 46 I really don't want to be racking up large amounts of debt in order to get my RN. I still have kids to get through school and college. I already have debt from a mortgage and car payments and I really don't want to have to work until I'm 80 - unless I want too. ;)

my tuition/books is running around $3000-4000 a year for my adn which of course is taking 3 years-1 for general ed and 2 for nursing classes, i get some state aid (everyone in the state is eligible-it pays about 50% of tuition at community colleges) and loans.

Specializes in LTC.
I WILL spend my money how I want and your right I don't care who pays high tuition to reach their goals. I was just voicing my opinion. I have my way of doing things and you have yours. Do what you want, you act like I called you stupid for not paying the high tuition. BTW this is just for you>>>:nono::nono::nono:

Obviously you do care or you wouldn't have made a thread about it, and you certainly wouldn't have done it with such an air of superiority.

I agree with the previous poster who guessed that you're probably not even paying your own tuition.

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