I'm wondering if any one has heard of Brandman University. They have a new ABSN program in San Diego, CA that i'm looking into. My grades are not competitive but i want to get into my career soon.
Has anyone been to this school, and if so, how did you like it? Do you think I'll be able to land a good job as an RN if I were to apply and attend? I'm nervous, since it is a new program! Such as, what if they end up closing and the degree won't be valid ?
Yes they did. It will take 22 months total including the 2 LBSU courses. 18 months for the nursing core. Each semester is 8 weeks long. Feel free to ask me any questions!
So - these are the Nursing Core Classes - 16 months and then the there is the 2 LBSUs - 2 months. That makes 18. Is that how you are counting it and that is what they are saying? National won't accept you into the degree program until you everything done and THEN it's 22 months. So if one were to knock those LBSU classes out as a non-degree student prior to being omitted to the program one could theoretically have 16 months yet if one had all other GEs done. Of course, you are taking a risk and it's 3K for what are otherwise worthless classes if you don't need units for anything.
After going through the thread and reading how many people have encountered some sort of confusion with Brandman as well, they're starting to sound sketchy or just plain unorganized.
I applied for the Fall 2020 cohort and submitted my application and all official transcripts back in March but suddenly my enrollment coach emails me (twice now) that admissions needs some of my transcripts to move my application forward. Although when I called the "one-stop" number, I was told all is on file.... Is anyone past this "step" already? I can't help but feel like my application is lost or almost non-existent at the moment ?.
Actually, this thread is mostly from accepted or waitlisted Summer 2020 cohort. The facebook group that was started should more accurately be called Summer 2020 Cohort, because of the prerequisite issue, many of them are starting clinicals in January, but some in September.
I would say Brandman is organized differently than some of the other programs and possibly a bit disorganized. It is much nicer when you can get a clear evaluation of your coursework prior to application review for acceptance. Also, they do not have clear guidelines for how applicants are rated like other schools do.
However, it is difficult when you accept people with different numbers of prerequisites to a cohort as it means people start clinicals at different times so they are looking at scheduling in a different way than all other programs.
After going through and reading this thread and the FB group, it sounded more like it was for the cohort prior to the one I applied to but was at times referenced to the same as mine. Hence my confusion hahha. So yes, your clarification helped a lot thank you ?
Also I made a separate thread for anyone else who applied for Fall 2020 (August 15th deadline) ?
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Thanks @nicolie
Did they give you an education plan? How long is it going to take?