Anyone attending or graduated from Chamberlain?

Editorial Team / Moderator · Nov 25, 2008

I chose Chamberlain after exhaustive research. It came down to Chamberlain and U of Wisconsin-Green Bay's program for me. U of W-GB was less expensive per credit hour, but it would have required more credits than Chamberlain, the total cost would have been similar. And with 206 credits to my name, I didn't want to repeat a bunch of stuff! I only have to take 32 credits with Chamberlain to finish my BSN. :) The classes are 8 weeks long, and any general ed stuff is done through DeVry.

I'm only in my first semester, but so far, so good! No group projects, no clinicals. I'll send you the contact information for my admissions advisor, Tiffany -- she's great, and very helpful! She can answer any questions you have.

Also, I see you're in NC -- have you looked at the UNC Chapel Hill RN-BSN? http://nursing.unc.edu/current/rn-bsn/ -- it's $117/credit hour for NC residents. You've probably seen it, but I'll just throw that out there! :)

stressgal, RN · Nov 25, 2008

I will complete my BSN in 3 weeks with Chamberlain. I started in October of last year so it has taken me just about a year to complete. I could have been finished already but I decided to take 8 weeks off this summer to spend with family. I have really enjoyed the process. The classes have been well organized and very informative. There have only been a couple of "group" projects, but we were graded individually and it worked out fine. While there are no clinicals there are a couple of classes that require you to conduct interviews or shadow a public health nurse. There are a lot of papers. Invest in an APA manual, it will become your best friend. No, it isn't cheap. But I saved time in completing the degree and to me that is priceless. Good luck in whatever you decide to do.

L&D-RN · Nov 26, 2008

Thanks guys for all the info. I am going to see if I can get them to evaluate all of my classes to see where I stand. I did look at Chapel Hill but they wanted more classes from me. I think a foreign language. I am hoping to not have too many left. I guess we'll see.

Editorial Team / Moderator · Nov 26, 2008

You do have to complete a minimum of 32 credits with Chamberlain in order to graduate, so you can count on that number, at least.

One of the really nice things about applying to Chamberlain was that they take care of collecting all your transcripts for you, and they usually waive the application free (they did for me, anyway). For the transcripts, they ask you to fill out a transcript request form with your school info, and they pay the transcript fees and deal with all that stuff. That was great for me, because I have associates degrees from three different schools, plus 3 CLEP tests and 12 AP credits to my name. But I also sent my advisor copies that I had, and they did my eval off of the unofficial ones (but still got copies of the official ones for confirmation).