Does going to a well reputed 4 year BSN program

[The_Signal]

improve your chances of getting a job after you graduate? Like do these programs have better job placement for their grads?

[lmccrn62, MSN, RN]

I am not sure that it does. The market for new grads in some areas is very poor. So not sure what will help.

[KelRN215, BSN, RN]

It depends. I think it does in my area because the hospitals are familiar with the programs/have their students rotating through for clinicals all the time. It definitely helped me get my job.

[elkpark]

Going to a school with a good reputation in the area (or nationally) is always a good idea. Nursing is a pretty small "club," and most employers of nurses in an area have a pretty good idea of the general caliber of graduates the different nursing programs in an area produce.

[nurseprnRN, BSN, RN]

Elkpark is right. I have worked all over the country, and my degrees from two really excellent brick-and-mortar schools have opened doors for me.

[llg, PhD, RN]

Definitely. Schools have reputation. If your school has a good reputation among employers, it will help. If your school is unknown ... or has a bad reputation, it will hurt.

But keep in mind that there are no guarantees either way.

[KelRN215, BSN, RN]

Elkpark is right. I have worked all over the country, and my degrees from two really excellent brick-and-mortar schools have opened doors for me.

Another good point. If you go to a well known school and then move across the country, it will help you that the hiring manager/recruiter will be familiar with your school or will have at least heard of it. I had my resume professionally reviewed at a women's conference last year and the first thing the reviewer said to me was "you have a degree from X College (Nationally known top 40 school) and 5 years at X hospital (another nationally known, nationally ranked place), you could go anywhere with this."

[elkpark]

I have worked all over the country, and my degrees from two really excellent brick-and-mortar schools have opened doors for me.

(Me, too.)

[RedSoxFan84]

A high percentage of students that started with me for new graduate orientation (maybe half) went to a very respectable university that does clinicals at the hospital and has some instructors affiliated with the hospital as employees. Most of the rest also went to some very well known schools. Two nurses graduated from a community college, so in that respect I think it's a game of luck. I went to a lesser known state school and feel like I mostly got the job because I was already an employee in the hospital.