Any Accelerated BSN at IUPUI Fall applicants?

indylaurastockton,

I haven't really come across anything that ranks programs within the state. Here's a link to the Indiana government site that lists accredited degree programs within the state along with their NCLEX pass rates:

http://www.in.gov/pla/2490.htm

Looking at the PDF that lists NCLEX pass rates for each school from 01/2008-12/2008

Marian College: 85.40
University of Indianapolis: 100
University of Indiana-IUPUI: 93.7

National pass rate: 86.73

All three schools have full accreditation.

Are you looking for a traditional or an accelerated BSN program? I think UIndy only offers a traditional BSN. They do offer an accelerated Master's that looks like it's about 27 months long, but I don't now how much it costs or how many credits you have to take (or what the pre-reqs are). I was told for one of their other graduate programs that they typically admit people with a min 3.75 undergrad GPA and tuition was about $99,000, but I have no idea about the nursing program.

For me, a huge difference between these programs is price. Marian college's tuition is $20,970 per year and UIndy is $24,000. I know some master's degree programs at UIndy are about $30,000 per year.

I'm not sure about the other two programs, but the IU School of Nursing is listed as an NLN (National League of Nurses) Center of Excellence in Nursing Education and it's "the largest multipurpose nursing school in the country".

Also, I don't know what your ultimate goal is, but I would like to return to get my master's and/or a doctorate, and IUPUI-IUSON graduate school is ranked as a top nursing graduate school by U.S. News and World Reports.

If I hear/find anything else about those two schools, I'll post it.

I hope this helps.

Do you know what the tuition for the Accel. BSN at IUPUI is? I looked at IUPUI's website and saw that credit hours are $200-something for undergrad, but then it lists "Graduate and Professional", which has "Nursing" underneath that heading at over $400 a credit hour. Does that refer only to graduate-level nursing, or to undergrad nursing as well maybe because it is "Professional"? That girl I talked with at Ivy Tech was telling me that she thought IUPUI's ABSN tuition was about $15K for just the nursing courses tuition. If one could get the scholarship from Clarian that is for $15K, that would be great! I wonder how many of those they give out.

Just wondering what the current standards are in order to be a competitive applicant for IUPUIs ABSN program. I am looking to apply for the Summer 2010 start. What do they look at besides GPA from your previous Bachelor's? What is the application process like?

Thanks for any help!

Csab,

I've been trying to figure this out myself.

This website has a link to the fee schedule for 2009-2010: http://www.bursar.iupui.edu/
And this website has is the master fee schedule which lets you look up every fee associated with a particular school you're interested in: http://www.finance-admin.iupui.edu/M...ookieSupport=1

Tuition for the A-BSN is $230.76 per credit hour
Nursing program fee: $70.35 per credit hour
Nursing clinical fee: $277.30
General fee: $300.00 per semester which covers the previous "student activities fee, the athletic fee, the general services fee and the technology fee"

You can already find out which classes and clinicals you'll have each semester, so I calculated, for example, the first semester:

14 credit hours, 2 clinicals:
Tuition: 3230.64
Program fee: 984.90
Clinical fee: 554.60
General fee: 300.00
Total: $5070.14

But I'm not sure that's right.

The other semesters are 13, 15, 10, and 12 credit hours.

Someone within the program told me that it's roughly $5000 per semester if you include everything you have to pay for, but there are Clarian and Community scholarships and a whole list of other scholarships you can apply for.

BNE103,

Do you have any insight on how much the program costs?

JRenihan,

If you read this page, it tells you exactly what you need to do to apply: http://nursing.iupui.edu/degrees/absn/apply.shtml

From the information that I have gathered, and I could be completely wrong, the most important "statistic" is your pre-requisite GPA (see previous posts). BNE103, jennimarie, or awinfrey--Do you have any input on this?

When you meet with an advisor to go over the program planning sheet they'll go over the transcripts that have already been processed and use them to fill out your program planning sheet.

I hope this helps.

I'm planning on applying for the spring 2011 ABSN progam at IUPUI and have done a lot of research on all of the other programs offered in central IN. Here's what I found so far:

Tuition
Overall, IUPUI is BY FAR the least expensive ABSN program you will find. I've estimated the tuition to be around $20K, which is significantly lower than some of the other options, like Marian or UIndy, which will cost at least $50K. Also, the advisor for Marian's new 16 month program told me that their affiliation with St. Vincent is only for the purposes of providing clinical training, and no scholarships are being offered to program participants at this time (apparently, that was part of the original intent of the affiliation). The IUSON advisor I met with said that Clarian does give out a "handful" of $15K scholarships each semester, but I'm not sure on what basis they're awarded (i.e. merit, financial need, etc.).

Admittance
One of the only downsides that I've heard about IUPUI is the competition for admission to the program. Based on everything the IUSON advisor told me (and from the application) it appears to be almost entirely based on GPA. He said that the cut-off depends on the pool of applicants (they accept 30 per semester), but it is usually somewhere between a 3.8 and 3.9. However, on the upside, they only look at your pre-requisite GPA, not your total undergrad GPA. Therefore, if you're like me and only have a 3.5 from your first degree (because a social life was top priority at the time), but have more credit hours than required and/or need to take several additional science pre-requisites before applying, your pre-req GPA will likely be much higher. That is because the advisor will select the course with the highest grade that qualifies as a pre-requisite requirement to apply towards the ABSN pre-reqs. So where I had two courses that met a pre-req requirement, he applied the one with the highest grade. Because of that my current pre-req GPA is a 3.85 and will be above a 3.9 if I can manage to get A's in my science courses.

The downside of IUPUI seems to be the upside at other programs, like Marian and UIndy (Purdue is also VERY competitive), as I was told that they are easier to get into. This is probably due, in part, to their hefty private school tuitions, which deter many applicants.

One other downside that I've noticed about IUPUI is it's "big school" atmosphere. Since I attended IU Bloomington for my first degree, this doesn't bother me, but I know it's important to some people. Because IUPUI is a large public institution, they're very hands off in their approach to seemingly everything, not just in the SON, but everywhere. I've found it's oftentimes difficult to get answers to many of my questions about admissions, transfer credits, registration, etc. I didn't notice it much until I started meeting with advisors from other smaller schools and realized quickly how much more helpful those schools are in comparison. I'm not sure if this changes once you're in the school of nursing, but it can be frustrating when you're going through the pre-requisite and application process.

If you are interested in the IUPUI ABSN, I would strongly recommend that you meet with a SON advisor first thing. That was most helpful to me.

Sorry for the long post. Hopefully the information helps. Thank you to the rest of you for the other information! It's helped me a lot!

I saw this today on the University of Florida's nursing school website, and thought someone else might find it interesting as well:

Over the next several years, it is expected that nursing schools will begin to phase out those master’s degree tracks that prepare nurses for advanced practice (e.g., nurse practitioner). This is in keeping with national recommendations (American Association of Colleges of Nursing and the accrediting body, Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education) that as of 2015, advanced practice nurses should be prepared with a DNP, not a master’s degree. The national bodies that offer the certification exams for advanced practice are expected to require nurses to hold a DNP prior to examination as of 2015, and perhaps earlier for some specialties. Selected schools may initially offer the DNP as a completion program for those who already hold a master’s degree in nursing. However, over time many schools will phase out the advanced practice master’s degree tracks. The DNP is designed to be a post-baccalaureate degree and there is considerable interest among baccalaureate degree graduates in pursuing this degree already.

Sorry, I know it doesn't really pertain to this thread...

I spoke to an advisor at IUPUI about the Accel. BSN program. It looks like I have about seven courses to take (one of them is a retake) before I can apply. I hope to start Spring 2010. After some thought and after reading this thread, I decided to go ahead and stick with IUPUI's program rather than completing the one at Ivy Tech primarily because I want to eventually work on masters and teach. I am certain you need a masters to teach. Anywho, I'm pretty excited about eventually getting started in the program. Until then, I'll just bounce along through my pre-reqs.

A big thanks to those who posted. I found you insights and information supremely helpful.

Jones

Jones,

Did you apply for the Spring of 2010 then?

Sigh. I wish they would let us know about our admission status sooner than the first week of December.