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I just finished UTA's RN-BSN online. The cost of the courses are about $10K, but that's not including prereqs. If you're missing prereqs, 3 hours ones are $504 and 4 hour ones are $672 each. Plus books. I went used for most of mine and my most expensive book was about $100. I sold my books back through amazon and recouped about 2/3rds of my book money that way.
No idea about student loans. My employer did tuition reimbursement.
if you use fed loans (Home - FAFSA on the Web-Federal Student Aid), they don't do a credit check. if you need private loans, they will. I've not heard of schools doing credit checks, but we did need to pass a background check. Inquire at the school as to their policies
Penn State has an online program through their world campus. It's costing me approx 14k for 10 courses - your number of courses will vary depending on how many additional courses you need (I had to take public speaking and statistics). I like it so far and I know a number of nurses who graduated from there and thought it was an excellent program. Here's the site if you're interested http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu/
Good luck!
lumbarpain, ADN, RN
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I am a seasoned diploma RN LTC/acute care...and would like to know what is a good online course for BSN to take...and how much does it usually cost? if you have high credit card bills would that prevent you from getting government assist for a program? Been a long time since I did this...... Thanks