Anyone graduate from Texas Tech's 2nd degree Bachelor's in Austin area?

Hi Deyanna119,

I applied to this program for the January 2010 program and received an invitation for an interview on 11/17.

Although I'm not exactly IN the program just yet, I can answer your questions to the best of my knowledge.

Since the program is a web-based program, you do not go to lecture classes. Majority of your classwork is done online individually or with fellow students as group projects where you will have to meet up. The clinicals, from my understanding, is done at University Medical Center, where the Perry SON is located. They may offer other clinical sites but I'm pretty sure UMC is where it is primarily done.

As far as the job market after graduation, it has been said that many BSN students have job offers about 2 months before graduation so you shouldn't have a problem. I've also heard that some hospitals offer tuition reimbursement if you did your clinicals with them and sign a contract with them after graduation. I don't know if that's the case with this school, but I'm just throwing that out there.

I'm not sure how difficult it may be to get a job in the ICU right after graduation, but I do know that most recommend that you start in Med/Surg to gain experience and utilize the skills you learned in school to your job right out of school.

As far as my stats, I have a 3.78 GPA, B.S. in Psychology and Health, CNA and SAMA certification, medical and volunteer experience in family practice and wound care units.

You didn't mention if you have it or not, but it's also important to remember that TTUHSC weighs a large amount of your admission on your volunteer and work experience. If you don't have any volunteer experience, I would suggest doing that now while you still have time.

If I get accepted after my interview, I plan on moving to Austin. I'd feel more at ease knowing that I am just a few blocks away to meet with retention counselors should I need them or meet with classmates easily for study groups.

I hope I helped a little bit and wish you the best! Let me know if you have any other questions and I'll try my best to help you out if someone else doesn't have the answers for you!

Hi Deyanna!

180 hours in PT volunteer work I great! I don't know how important it is that your experience be in nursing volunteer work, but more volunteer work wouldn't hurt by any means. If you have the time, do it!

I have 150 hours in wound care volunteer experience, 1 1/2 years experience as a medical assistant and 1 1/2 years experience as a C.N.A.

About applying to other schools, I applied to University of Houston-Victoria and UTHSC-Houston for the accelerated programs as well. I received an invitation for an interview from UHV just this afternoon scheduled for 11/30.

Also, pathophysiology is required PRIOR to admission into the program and will be calculated into your GPA for their school. TTUHSC offers it online, but beware, its a very intensive course and definitely not an easy class. It is a great indicator as to how the classes will be in the program. The professors are awesome though and very easy to get a hold of when you have questions. That one class with them was $1,000, definitely not cheap, but I decided to take it w/ them as opposed to somewhere else because I know some schools prefer you to take certain classes w/ them. When they evaluated my transcripts they suggested I take it w/ them.

Just something to think about


Hope I answered you're questions and let me know if there's anything else!