Excelsior BSN, why so few people here enrolled?

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Specializes in Telemetry.

I know, I know....I've seen this thread before, but I still have some questions. My main question is why most people who graduate from excelsior for their ASN, don't finish their BSN with them? I loved excelsior's ASN program, so I'm hoping to love the BSN program just as much. I haven't signed up yet but I plan to this week and I wanted some input. Any thoughts?

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Specializes in Surgery, Med/Surg/ICU, OB-Peds, Ophth.

I was wondering the same thing? I have followed a few threads about some students not liking the exams (no practice exams?) but that is all that I found. What is there (or IS there?) a clinical component? If this doesn't burn me out too bad I would really like to just keep right on going.

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Specializes in Psych, LTC, Acute Care.

For me, it boiled down to money. EC BSN was gonna cost me 10,000 dollars. I got my BSN through a local university for 2,200. That was an 10,000 savings because the hospital that I worked for paid for it.NC tuition is super affordable because we have so many great universities.

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Specializes in Surgery, Med/Surg/ICU, OB-Peds, Ophth.
For me, it boiled down to money. EC BSN was gonna cost me 10,000 dollars. I got my BSN through a local university for 2,200. That was an 10,000 savings because the hospital that I worked for paid for it.NC tuition is super affordable because we have so many great universities.

Wow, that is a huge difference in cost. I won't have a nearby option :mad: but one of the two that are 80 miles away is about the same cost, and I believe there is a 43 hour clinical portion.

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The EC BSN program has changed over the years. Anyone who has been watching it might not be happy with the changes. Most people are looking for ease of completion in an RN to BSN program and their program is no longer as easy to deal with as other programs, for the price.

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The reason I didn't was because they wanted me to take so many extra classes just to complete my BSN.

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Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.
The reason I didn't was because they wanted me to take so many extra classes just to complete my BSN.

Yep, exactly. I had 206 credits (yes, really) by the time I finished my ADN with EC -- it was my third Associates degree. They wanted me to do a bunch of general ed classes (not even upper level stuff) and couldn't tell me if they'd accept my statistics class for credit until I paid the enrollment fee. Ummmm ... no. Maybe I expected a little more as an ADN grad, but I took my education dollars elsewhere. With that being said, my nurse manager in my ED is doing her RN-BSN through EC and loves it.

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Specializes in Ortho, OB/GYN, long-term care.

My state BON does not accept the EC BSN program. They do accept the ASN which makes no sense if they accept one why not the other? So that is the reason I will not be moving forward with them after ASN. And I really like the set-up too. But most of all the support from other sstudents.

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I was in the program briefly. I took a couple of the EC Examinations with no problem, but, honestly, at the time I had a few too many irons in the fire. I wasn't very diligent about contributing to the web discussions as required in the WebCT-based courses.

Now, a couple of years later, I'm finding MSN programs that will accept nurses who have non-nursing four-year degrees. I'll have to make a more serious commitment this time, but it won't take me that much longer and the cost won't be that much higher than the cost of an EC BSN.

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Lissa,

Just out of curiosity, what do you mean when you say that your state doesn't accept the Excelsior BSN? In my state, the only programs that they approve are initial licensure programs and they leave the choice of RN-to-BSN programs up to the student since it doesn't give us a new license or any additional scope of practice.

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Specializes in Ortho, OB/GYN, long-term care.

Maybe that is what they meant as an initial licensure but before instated with EC I called and spoke with someone over education at the BON and was old they accept the ASN but not the BSN from EC. I was only interested in ASN at the time so isn't question it further.

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Ah - could be! EC did have an initial licensure BSN program at one time, but they phased it out a few years ago.

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