Any knowledge of New England College in Quezon City, Philippines?

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Hello, all:

My situation is similar to other posts found here. I am an American man in my mid 40s, seeking a career change. I am in Iraq now as an advisor, but I am coming home soon and want to go into nursing. The prereq's for nursing consume about one year, the wait lists in the Detroit area for community colleges is two years, plus two years in the RN program comes out to about five years. I cannot wait this long for a career transition. My savings will not carry me anywhere near that long.

I contacted some schools in the Philippines, but they are age discriminatory. They will only accept those under 30 years of age. One school stated they will accept me. It is New England College in Quezon City, Philippines. It is a BSN program. Does anybody have any knowledge of this school? I have a list of top schools in terms of first-time passes on the Philippine nursing exam, but this school is *not* on it. I do not want to enter a diploma mill because it will be worthless to me if I cannot pass the nursing exam in the US after completing my training in the Philippines.

I will soon have a Bachelor's degree in Liberal Arts, so I am looking for a school in the Philippines that will admit me as a "second courser," the term I believe that is equivalent to the "BSN as a second degree" program in the US.

One other option: If the BSN in the Philippines is not workable, can you give me some information on the LPN. I cannot find stateside schools offering training in LPN. Where does one get this training?

Thank you in advance for your help.

The Philippine government is trying to close down many of the second courser programs there and even harder to close those that have not had one student pass their licensing exam. They are nothing more than diploma mills, just like the puppy mills that we have had here that many have tried to close down for the quality coming out.

Not sure why the school even uses New England in their name since they have no affiliation with anything in the US either.

There are still programs in the US where you can go for direct entry into a BSN program once you have the Bachelor's degree. Even the second courser programs in the Philippines are going to want to see the pre-reqs done, they are assuming that you will have had them done as well.

You will not be able to get licensed right away after you finish the program in the Philippines, you cannot even begin the process to apply for licensure until you have a completed set of transcripts and then add in the waiting time for the PRC to provide you with a letter that you are unable to write their licensing exam there. Many states require a local license before they will permit you to sit for the NCLEX exam, many forget about this. So you are looking at adding on months and months to when you think that you would be able to work. MI also requires the CES be completed by CGFNS and this can take four months or so to complete.

The LPN programs in the Philippines are also not universally accepted all over the US for licensure. You may not be aware of the fact that the graduates of these programs cannot even take the licensing exam in the Philippines as they do not recognize the training there for licensure.

I would recommend that you check out some other states in the US, or even some private programs as well in the US. They cost more, but you can usually get in much quicker.

Best of luck to you.

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I just when to their web site, they have not graduated a single nurse, track record for these type of schools will lead to probable failure of the NLE.

I'm sorry sir but you don't the right to say those words.... I am a graduate of new england college and the school is great,... they accept 2nd courses like...professors are fantastic...tuition fee very affordable...infact they have 30-40 students from u.s. who will study here ... so i'm a little bit offended by your remarks/....

i hope i was able to enlighten someone

When the above poster posted, not one person has pass the boards.

http://www.prc.gov.ph/documents/NURS1108ps.pdf

According to what I read , 18 students have graduated and only 8 passed the NLE. Not so great.

They do have a track record now. I think someone has posted a link to the passing rates of each school in another thread. I believe this school has a current passing rate of 44% where 8 out of 18 graduates passed the NLE

well its wrong its 10 out 20 .. the link is wrong.. we are still above the national passing average

jerro: I think you meant the list is wrong. I could say that all got the same list from the PRC, so it means that somebody somewhere had the wrong code for the school for at least 2 graduates. Since the PRC only processes the codes submitted, the most likely explanation is that someone from the school did not get it right so they were not credited to the school.

In any case the current passing rate is based on less than 30 examinees from the school, and i would assume that they are the first batch ever to take the exam, based on the list. It is something to be proud of, but of course, the original poster would have to consider that the school has just graduated the first batch ever, and that the track record of passing the NLE still needs to be established. Would you care to post how many graduates in total did the school have last school year, so we could track in the future how many of those will pass the NLE later on? The PRC list covers only those who took the exams, but not how many actual graduates from each school.

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Specializes in SICU, Burn Unit, PACU, CCU.

@ jerro

My heart goes out to you. But the forum must be based on hard facts to provide better, if not the best solution posted by a bewildered fellow.

In my own (honest) opinion. Wait.. wait.. wait.. Patience (cliche) is a virtue you know

when did u start taking classes at st ignatius. im actually thinking about taking classes here Im still here in US and plans to move ther so please give me some information about this school will they be able to take u to fresno or saipan

Try New England College, 40 Quezon avenue Quezon city. nec.edu.ph Their website Ain't updated though

I am one of their product. When I was studying there I had classmates who were from California and other states who were already LPN's and finishing their BSN degree at the College. Their Lectures were all pure online and the time that I got to be classmates with them were during our clinical exposures. The students from CA and other states were all given full credits for the courses (subjects) that they took in the US. I think the current group of foreign students are at Batch 5.

Some of the students were US army and navy nurses. :yeah:

International students outnumber the local students at the school.

I graduated and reviewed at NEC for my local NLE and I am proud that I made it with flying colors. By the way, I was an international student in the US - (NY) studying a different major , NEC credited all of my subjects, plus they allowed me to fully load on subjects as long as I sign a waiver. The waiver is for you to agree that yes you advanced a subject while taking the prerequisite subject, but if you fail the prerequisite then you fail the advanced subject as well. So, if you want to finish your NSG education ASAP, then I guess it is doable but sacrifice on your social life is a must.:up:

Hi, Im also planning to go back to the Philippines to continue my nursing education. Can you tell me if they credit classes that are taken here in the US? Also how long is the program at NEC and how much is the tuition fee over there. Hoping to hear from you, thanks.

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