is Angeles University Foundation (Philippines) a good school if I want to work in the US?

[Rzcola]

Hello guys,

im currently a pre nursing student in California right now, and I am considering going into the Philippines to take A four year course in nursing due to financial struggles. I have heard Angeles University Foundation is a very good school to go into and a lot of Fil-ams also go there to plan into coming back to US to apply for licensure.

whats holding me back is the new concurrency rules that CA Bon has implemented and the struggle just to get to take the NCLEX..I'm afraid I'd get denied once I come back here after graduating from that school... is there anyone who have also attended this school or has experienced going to a school in the Philippines that is focused on having US requirements completed so they can be eligible for a license? Or anyone that made it in general?

thank you all so much!

[Ginger's Mom, MSN, RN]

Best school is an American school, if money is aan issue do a lpn or adn to start. If your grades are not good enough to get in an American program take courses and get good grades.

[JustBeachyNurse, LPN]

It's always best to go to nursing school in the country you wish to live and work.

Concurrency isn't new it dates back to the 1980s

[steppybay]

Rzcola, here's a few things you should do and consider before enrolling in AU (or any other PH schools).

-- Ask and get in writing from the dean of the school, if they have had ZERO problems with any of recent graduates from 2006 to present in getting their ATT approved by the CA BRN without having to re-take any further courses. Recent must mean within the last 1-2 years of submitting their application so only those that applied in 2014 and 2015 to present, not prior to 2005, major difference. Mind you even the top 5 ranking PH schools have all been affected by the concurrency rules.

-- Yes, there's a large gap of the US schooling tuition versus going to the PH with much cheaper expenses, but at what cost are you willing to accept?

What I mean is so you have saved a bundle of money, but as you can see from the NCLEX section and forums as well as statistic surveys from the NCLEX companies, the first-time NCLEX passing rates of the international sector (primarily from PH) is a low 30-35% versus those educated in the states is a much higher 80-85%, understanding with each re-take the percentages drops to 15%.

Most US educated grads do not bother taking extra NCLEX prep courses and do take the NCLEX months after graduation if not sooner.

Within that same thought, if one should be so lucky as to land a job or be considered for a job or interview, upon passing the NCLEX, they stand a much better chance of getting their first job given the high unemployment rate of newly graduated students just for the US nurses. A nurse with a US education does not have to wait months maybe up to a year just to get the approval to take the NCLEX.

Unless the CHED, PRC and PNA have recently changed the curriculum (again) to meet the concurrency rules, you will be another guinea pig student to see what happens to you in four years.

This is what's happened to those tens of 1,000's who applied in 2011, who have not been able to re-take the minimum courses and who today have had to either re-apply again with having to meet the same exact requirements that declined their application in the first place as their application did not the 3 year completion date to finalize them. So now they will have to take the NCLEX for the first time after several years have gone by, IF they can get the so badly needed transcripts from the CA school.

Assuming they finally pass the NCLEX, their nursing knowledge and skills will have diminished after those years to a point whereby now their chances of a job interview will be lessen also, showing no real paid nursing jobs and don't qualify for the new grad positions.