Mountain State University LPN-BSN program Info please

I just graduated from MSU Martinsburg campus on Tuesday evening with my BSN. I was an LPN for 22 years before returning to college to get my RN, BSN. Mountain state is convenient with only going to college one night a week from 6p to 10p till you start the nursing part of the cohort than you go one night a week from 5p to 9p than one day for clinicals which is 7a to 7p. MSU is a bit disorganized but with the convenience you can do it. I am a single mom and have been hospitalized 6 times during my college time but made it. The program is actually 3 years and 5 months long. Good luck. Dani

For the first 2 and 1/2 years you only go to college for one night 4 hours each night. Than the rest of the time which is about one year you go one night a week than 12 hours one day which our day was Fridays but each cohort is different, the class chooses the day they want to do clinicals. I live right on the WV MD line so my commute was only 20 minutes but there were 2 classmates of mine that traveled from down the road about an hour. Dani

I started the LPN to BSN program at the Martinsburg campus in January 2006 and I just graduated on May 12, 2009. It is a 3 year 5 month program. For the first 1 year and 1/2 you go to class from 6p to 10p than the rest of college you are in the nursing program which is two days a week one 4 hours than another is clinicals which is a 12 hour day. You do have a 120 hour practicum at the end of your course that you have to do but you have about a month and a half to finish it. If I made it you can make it, I started with a 3 year old and now she is 6 plus I had 6 hosptializations during my 3 1/2 years of college for no less than 1 week at atime. It was very disorganized but I am so glad that I did it. You can make it but you have to a determined person to succeed. Dani

We stayed at the Martinsburg Campus, never had to go to any other campus. Our clinicals were at the Martinsburg Va which is about 10 minutes from the college, City Hospital which is actually the exit before college, and the Winchester Medical Center which was about 25 minutes farther than college but was amazing. It is just that we did not know when our were our clinicals were going to be until like a week before we had them at times, not always. I just felt that it was disorganized. If I could have gone to college more days or was out of work while going to college I would have chosen another college but I am just glad to be done. It was not torture but just disorganized. Dani