Aspen or Capella for MSN

[JanessiaRN]

Hello,

I'm a nurse with my BSN looking into online MSN programs. I'm torn between Capella and Aspen. Which one do you recommend? What was your experience or what have you heard? How are classes structured?

[klone, MSN, RN]

Neither. Capella is a for-profit and not considered to be very reputable. Aspen, if I recall correctly, has some accreditation issues (I think they don't have ACEN or CCNE accreditation, whichever one applies to grad schools).

[elkpark]

Aspen is also for-profit, isn't it?

[Miss.Jersey, MSN, APN]

Depending on the MSN track your want WGU has been great in my experience in their RN to BSN program

[Nina Beaman]

I attended both Capella and Aspen. I found Capella to be good, but expensive. I loved that Aspen was affordable, flexible, and yet it has CCNE accreditation. It does not matter if it is set up as a for-profit, as long as they are not charging the student high costs. I also learned a lot more about nursing, myself, and leadership from Aspen.

[GenRN75, RN]

On 8/2/2018 at 1:22 PM, Nina Beaman said:

I attended both Capella and Aspen. I found Capella to be good, but expensive. I loved that Aspen was affordable, flexible, and yet it has CCNE accreditation. It does not matter if it is set up as a for-profit, as long as they are not charging the student high costs. I also learned a lot more about nursing, myself, and leadership from Aspen.

Nina are you still at Aspen? How’s it going?

[Jay123]

anyone get an RN job with Capella BSN? details please! thx!!!

[PgrassRN]

On 1/24/2020 at 5:42 PM, Jay123 said:

anyone get an RN job with Capella BSN? details please! thx!

I do medically intensive pediatric homecare. A woman I used to work with did the RN to MSN flexpath program and got a job at st. Francis hospital afterwards on the peds floor. Now I cant say wether or not she would have gotten that job anyway. But, I can say that she thought the degree got her that job.