Not-for-profit vs for-profit colleges...did this make a difference?

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I am curious to hear from those of you that have attended for-profit vs not-for-profit colleges.

Did any of you, when job searching after completing your graduate degrees, have anyone say anything if you graduated from a for-profit school?

In other words, do you feel that you were discriminated against in any way or did it make no difference at all as long as you held the credentials?

Thanks!

BabyLady

Specializes in NICU, Post-partum.
Case Western as in Case Western Reserve Univ.? If that's the school you're talking about, I know it has an excellent reputation for their medical school - right up there with Tufts, Johns Hopkins, etc. They're especially known for research with their profs publishing regularly in academic journals. I tried looking for accreditation on their nursing program website, but their website in general is really hard to navigate! But I'm almost 100% sure they are accredited. They have PhD's & DNP's teaching their students and they offer the highest graduate degrees.

This thread has been helpful for me. For a moment, I was willing to consider for-profit online-only schools for RN-BSN bridge. But I have to say that now I am not. Even if there is a theoretical possibility that a few of these schools are good, I can't afford to put their general stigma on my resume. I think my minimum starting point to consider an online program will be that they actually have a bricks & mortar campus and they are fully accredited. Then I'll start comparing student reviews, tuition cost, # of courses required, user-friendliness of their web platform, etc.

Many of the for-profit online programs are FULLY accredited...to me, this is huge.

I would also, include that in my cover letter, where your degree was from and what it's accreditation is.

I will attempt to find a traditional program that I am looking for, but so far, the only ones I have found have something that I cannot live with.

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Specializes in NICU, Post-partum.
You might want to check out http://www.ttuhsc.edu/son/ Texas Tech...they have an online nurse educator program.

I appreciate the suggestion and I checked them out today. I would be out-of-state, plus they were about 10 semester hours more than the majority of the programs I have looked at...an MSN would cost me about $20K more.

However, their program did look good.

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Specializes in Gerontology, nursing education.

Did you check out University of North Dakota?

ttp://www.nursing.und.edu/grad/nursinged/index.cfm

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Specializes in NICU.

If I went to college from 1997-1999 and have an associates in science, will all my prereqs be done for the RN to BSN program? Even my science classes? What about the 5 year cutoff?

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Specializes in TELE, CVU, ICU.

Short answer: NO

There is a cutoff for A&P as well as Micro. In addition, articulation agreements change.

If I went to college from 1997-1999 and have an associates in science, will all my prereqs be done for the RN to BSN program? Even my science classes? What about the 5 year cutoff?
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Specializes in NICU.

Thanks for the quick response! I am very excited to start, hope this enthusiasm continues?!?!?! lol!

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If I went to college from 1997-1999 and have an associates in science, will all my prereqs be done for the RN to BSN program? Even my science classes? What about the 5 year cutoff?

each state has different rules for nursing school requirements - it is not the schools that decide this. For example, i have a Bachelor's in biology and did masters work in Immuno/Micro - i still had to retake Microbiology 101 as even thos i had done the class in grade school, TA'ed the 101, and work in molecular Micro iit did not count towards it being done in the past 10 years for Maryland. If i had applied to UofPenn all of the pre-reqs would have to be done in the past 5 years - including biology 101 which i have taught/TA'ed and it is a subject that I have a degree in. unfair? - kind of - but if they keep the rules the same for everyone and don't make acceptations than it is a level playing field. Thus I decided not to apply to UofPenn. :)

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THIS is an informative thread. I am personally having a problem finding a graduate level forensic nursing program, I've started looking outside my area (SoCal) because the budget has adversely affected programs offered by the State Uni's. The only programs I've been able to find are offered by Kaplan (the subject of the PE news article linked earlier in the thread), Case Western (I cannot find it listed as an accredited school when I search on the site linked earlier in the thread), Xavier (its accredited, has a good rep but no online offering and its in Ohio), and an online post baccalaureate cert from Johns Hopkins. The DON at the hospital I work at graduated from Case Western it has not adversely affected her.

Fitchburg State University, in Massachusetts, has an online masters in Forensic Nursing.

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