Employment

[jazhao]

Ok I have a questions does most hospitals care what kind of school you go to despite the fact that most school offer the same degree like BSN in nursing

[Nurse Beth, MSN]

Some schools (particularly online schools) have poor reputations. It is worse to graduate from a disreputable school than it is to not graduate from a prestigious school.

For the most part, nursing is not as school-conscious as some other professions. Once you've been a nurse for a year or more, experience trumps the school attended. Best wishes.

[jazhao]

What about if you both schools are accredited but one school happens to be a higher rank than the other

[DoGoodThenGo]

What about if you both schools are accredited but one school happens to be a higher rank than the other

What is this "rank" or "ranking" you refer to in your queries?

At least in New York State there isn't an official "ranking" order of nursing programs. Some accredited programs are more highly rated than others, and or have greater first time pass (NCLEX) rates, but no hospital/healthcare facility puts graduates of say NYU over LIU purely based upon some sort of subjective rank.

As for the rest previous poster pretty much answered your query; some schools have a better reputation than others but overall nursing isn't like say medicine where graduating from an Ivy League program gives one a certain leg up.

Will give you that certain schools did or do have excellent reputations for producing quality graduates; but much of that was in early to middle of last century when hospital based programs dominated nursing education. Saint Vincent's, Flower and Fifth, Bellevue, New York Hospital, Columbia, and some others all in their days were regarding as producing highly capable (and much sought after) graduates. However as nursing education has become more standardized and moved into colleges/universities things have changed.

Hunter-Bellevue which is widely regarded as the "crème de la crème" of nursing programs in NYC if not the USA produces some excellent nurses, but also those that aren't.

Nurse managers, recruiters, administration and others have their own ways today of determining who will make a good "fit" for their facility (especially for new grad programs), and where a newly licensed nurse went to school is but a small part of that decision.

Every newly hired nurse and or those recently licensed admitted to a new grad residency/orientation program goes through the same recruitment/hiring and training/orientation process. For new grads it is the results from pre and post employment screening/testing along with scores/grades achieved during residency/orientation coupled with feedback from peers and supervisors that largely determine if a new hire will remain or not.

Proof of this is that not one nursing program affiliated with a hospital here in NYC (NYU, Hunter-Bellevue, Beth Israel) makes any sort of promise or whatever that graduates will be hired into that system.

If the purpose of your queries is to research potential schools, best advice is to look at first time passing rates. This has been and still is one of the more accurate predictions of how well a nursing program does in laying the foundation for a career in the profession.

http://www.op.nysed.gov/prof/nurse/nurseprogs-nclexrn2013-17.htm

Going by the above information and as previous poster mentioned you can see many of the online/for profit schools have bad to horrible passing rates. That alone would cause many nurse managers/hiring/recruiting or whatever to think twice about a program, far more than any "ranking".

[jazhao]

Does Hunter College accept transfer students that has not completed a bachelors degree previously

[FutureNurseInfo]

Does Hunter College accept transfer students that has not completed a bachelors degree previously

Hunter will accept transfer students as non-degree students. You will still have to complete certain pre-reqs (if you have not done so yet) and then apply to its nursing program. Even if accepted into its nursing program, you will have to start from scratch.

[jazhao]

Ok if hunter accepts non degree students then why on the website it said to be considered a transfer student one must have already a degree previously

[karmax1]

...all they care is your licence number.