CSP Global- Portland ABSN Financial Aid

[em.m_carter]

Hello! 

I'm an incoming first year nursing student and wanted to see if anyone had any experience with Concordia St. Paul Global's Portland campus ABSN program financial aid. I noticed it's outside of what I'm willing to pay for nursing school and was hoping someone had some input about how they are with providing financial aid (how much in scholarships, if they only provide grants/loans, etc.) For reference, I haven't taken my TEAS yet, but my diagnostic score on a practice test was about 80%, I have a 3.0 science prerequisite GPA and a 3.2 overall GPA. I currently have 63 undergraduate college credits and have not yet received a bachelor's degree or nursing license in any discipline.

Thanks

[Jrod]

Hi, I was accepted to CSP Portland this year but decided to attend another program. I did go through the whole CSP process and financial aid offer, so I can speak to that. As far as I was ever able to tell, there weren't any scholarships offered by CSP Portland itself. So, the cost you see is what you're going to pay, unless you can find any outside scholarships or you qualify for outside grants. Loans will be standard for college where you can max out federal loans, but due to the cost, you'll also need a significant portion of private loans. This is what the Federal loan disbursement looked like for me in CSP's dashboard. The standard Federal loan limit is $12,500/year max, so that was divided up between three semesters. The program is four semesters total, and the fourth semester isn't shown here. I would have had to make up the remainder with private loans. 

The ABSN program for CSP is run by Orbis Education, which is a private for-profit company that manages the program in exchange for sharing the profits with CSP, from what I can tell. My guess is that is one reason why they don't offer scholarships. Like many ABSN programs, it is expensive. If it's more than you want to pay with loans, you might want to check out other programs. You could also try pursuing work-based scholarship programs, like from the VA. 

[em.m_carter]

Jrod said:

Hi, I was accepted to CSP Portland this year but decided to attend another program. I did go through the whole CSP process and financial aid offer, so I can speak to that. As far as I was ever able to tell, there weren't any scholarships offered by CSP Portland itself. So, the cost you see is what you're going to pay, unless you can find any outside scholarships or you qualify for outside grants. Loans will be standard for college where you can max out federal loans, but due to the cost, you'll also need a significant portion of private loans. This is what the Federal loan disbursement looked like for me in CSP's dashboard. The standard Federal loan limit is $12,500/year max, so that was divided up between three semesters. The program is four semesters total, and the fourth semester isn't shown here. I would have had to make up the remainder with private loans. 

The ABSN program for CSP is run by Orbis Education, which is a private for-profit company that manages the program in exchange for sharing the profits with CSP, from what I can tell. My guess is that is one reason why they don't offer scholarships. Like many ABSN programs, it is expensive. If it's more than you want to pay with loans, you might want to check out other programs. You could also try pursuing work-based scholarship programs, like from the VA. 

Hello,

thanks for all the info! Do you have any recommendations on work-based scholarship programs? How do they work? Do you work while in nursing school or is it a contract so you're committed to working for a certain number of years out of nursing school?