CRNA Program Rankings

zrmorgan · Nov 25, 2003

DOES USC EVEN HAVE A PROGRAM ANYMORE????I WAS TOLD BY THE SCHOOL LAST YEAR THAT THEY DONT. THIS REALLY TRASHES THE RANKINGS IF IT IS TRUE.

gaspassah · Nov 26, 2003

i think usc has a school, but it's taught through the school of medicine i heard.

smogmatt · Nov 26, 2003

don't bash it!!

1st off: all the programs are good (no I'm being serious) the COA wouldn't allow them continue, if the program wasn't meeting the minimum requirements.

2nd as others have said: find the right one for you, location, class size, MSN vs MS, front loaded vs intergraded, clinical sites, quality of clinical sites, # of total cases, # of regionals and lines, thesis vs oral boards cost. there are alot of factors to consider.

3rd give the "experts" some credit!! read the methodology! fellow deans, program directors, other professionals rated the programs not Jay Leno and his "Jay-walkers"

4th NC Girl don't discount a program just be cause they have MDA residents, in my program (we do have residents) there is plenty of Anesthesia and quality of cases not just the scraps, like you say research!

Athlein · Nov 26, 2003

One of the CRNAs affiliated with the COA told us that about 80% of the programs in this country are quality programs. The other 20%? Well....

I think there is some merit to the rankings process. I thought of several programs that would make my top-ten list, and sure enough, they were all right up there on the USNews list.

It shouldn't be the determining factor in your decision-making process, however!

PS The USC program in LA is alive and well. It just moved to the med school when the USC nursing program was eliminated.

madisoncrna · Jan 22, 2004

Middle Tennessee School of Anesthesia is the ONLY regionally-accredited, single purpose university offering anesthesia training. We grant a Master of Science degree with a focus in Nurse Anesthesia. Middle Tennessee School of Anesthesia has had a 99.9% pass rate on the National Certifying Exam since its inception in 1950 -- 100% in the last ten years! Upon completion of the program, 100% of our students have jobs. While at MTSA, our students routinely perform 10 times the number of required pediatric cases and twice the number of other required cases (epidurals, etc.). Additionally, they achieve over twice the required amount of actual anesthesia time and attend twice the required amount of classroom hours. We are a completely integrated program - this means that our students are in clinical rotations within the first month, along with their classroom didactics. This allows our students to consistently merge their textbook knowledge with practical application. We currently have 20 clinical affiliations throughout Middle Tennessee and Southern Kentucky. Employers rate our graduates among the best they've worked with and we repeatedly hear from our alumni base that if you graduate from MTSA, you can work with anyone, anywhere!!

madisoncrna · Jan 22, 2004

Middle Tennessee School of Anesthesia is the ONLY regionally-accredited, single purpose university offering anesthesia training. We grant a Master of Science degree with a focus in Nurse Anesthesia. Middle Tennessee School of Anesthesia has had a 99.9% pass rate on the National Certifying Exam since its inception in 1950 -- 100% in the last ten years! Upon completion of the program, 100% of our students have jobs. While at MTSA, our students routinely perform 10 times the number of required pediatric cases and twice the number of other required cases (epidurals, etc.). Additionally, they achieve over twice the required amount of actual anesthesia time and attend twice the required amount of classroom hours. We are a completely integrated program - this means that our students are in clinical rotations within the first month, along with their classroom didactics. This allows our students to consistently merge their textbook knowledge with practical application. We currently have 20 clinical affiliations throughout Middle Tennessee and Southern Kentucky. Employers rate our graduates among the best they've worked with and we repeatedly hear from our alumni base that if you graduate from MTSA, you can work with anyone, anywhere!!

TraumaNurse · Jan 22, 2004

Don't take it personally. These rankings are not a true indication of the quality of all the CRNA schools. There are schools in the top that I know I would not want to go to and there are schools low on the list that are excellent. The school I have chosen to go to did not even make the list. Am I upset...NO. The school I am going to offers a fully integrated program, small classes and far behond the minimum requiremnets of clinical time. I will have a lot of regional and line placement experience. They also have had a 100% pass rate over the past few years and last year had a few students score a perfect score on their boards. After interviewing at several schools and being accepted to 3, this is the school I chose...but it's not on the "Top Ranked" list.

MTSA sounds like a great program too. There are plenty of them out there. My advice to anyone applying is to not choose a school based on it's ranking in USNews.

air · Jan 22, 2004

I see the ranked the school I will be attending this Fall near the bottom 10, well I do not know where they got their data from but that school has had 100% on first time board takers consistently for that last few years. Infact, while I was interviewing on the last student for class 2003, passed the boards and the results were called in, it created and atmosphere of extra excitement. I would throw that ranking through a dusty pile.

RNBEAUTY2003 · Jan 23, 2004

Valuable information. Thanks:roll

olabanji adeleye · May 28, 2004

I like to work as a nurse anaesthetist abroad.

geecue · May 29, 2004

USC is shutting their program down this year. The nursing school closed a couple years ago, and the CRNA portion was then handled by the medical school; hence there was too much conflict and competition with the anesthesia residents... medical schools always take higher precedence within Universities. The same thing with Loma Linda and UCLA....both had CRNA programs that ended up shutting down for the same reasons.

That leaves only Kaiser and Samuel Merritt for the whole state of Cali :uhoh3:

As far as the rankings go... I look at them and laugh. My school was ranked top ten this year and was top five last year. This brought me memories of what my buddy asked me a few years ago: What do you call the med student who was ranked last in his class: an MD. You pass the boards for CRNA school...you got the RIGHT STUFF. Who cares which school you attended....our patients certainly wont.

nuff said

kdst · May 29, 2004

are you sure about usc shutting down this year? i had an interview scheduled there but cancelled when i got into my first choice school. my understanding is that the program is now in the keck school of medicine but no one said anything about the program shutting down. keck : department of anesthesiology : education & training : applications