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My own cost $10,100 a semester? How much is yours?
70$ credit hour (some take minimum classes and grad with AAS, I'm loading up for the AS so I can bridge faster to BSN & MSN thru FGCU's accelerated 3 yr program so this figure varies quite a bit) + books, uniforms were 180 for 4 tops and 2 pants and 1 lab coat, luckily the government agrees with me that I'm broke so I qualify for Pell and have other scholarships as well
$185/hour = $2500 for 1st semester for just tuition. Gonna run me about $11,000 for the whole program plus books, uniforms, gas, etc etc. This is a 2 year ADN program
Holy crap! That's more than it's going to cost me to get my BSN! Mine will be about $2200 per semester x4 + books, uniforms, parking, and gas.
That is just for the actual clinical classes not including the prereq's. I'm taking my prereq's at a community college at about $43 per credit hour.
carolinapooh, BSN, RN
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Same here - about $40K for a 16-month ABSN. I'll be about half that in debt, but am hoping hoping hoping to get hired by the VA; they have a $40K, tax-free loan repayment over five years (and their starting pay is insanely high compared to what everyone else is paying). Plus I have seven years federal time (military and civil service), so retirement would come quick, and I could go teach, or pick another specialty...sky's the limit with this field!