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Hi, I currently hold my BSN and is looking to enroll in a NP program. Either online or in person. Any recommendations as to which college I should look into? I would truly apprecite everyone's input

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I generally liked my time at frontier nursing university. I find their didactic first, clinical second approach better than mixing things up. I also liked the comraderie sparked from their requirements to go to the schoolhouse in hyden for orientation, skills checks, etc. For the np program, they accept about 700/yr out of 1400 applicants and only about 200 graduate a year. So there are quite a few who don't cut it for a myriad of reasons. But their first time pass rate on boards are 98%... And their mandatory post clinical board prep it's pretty good. Proctored exams are stressful, but necessary. You find your own clinical, but they have a solid database of people who've worked with them in the past.

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Specializes in Psychiatric and Mental Health NP (PMHNP).

There are a lot of good schools in the Baltimore/Washington, DC area: Univ of Maryland, Johns Hopkins, Georgetown, George Washington, etc. US News and World Reports publishes annual rankings. Please do not go to a for-profit school.

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Specializes in allergy and asthma, urgent care.

Also lots of good schools in the Boston/New England region:Yale, Boston College, Northeastern, Simmons, University of Massachusetts, Mass General Institutes of Health, etc.

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Specializes in Internal Medicine.

This is a loaded question on this site and you're going to get a wide range of answers and opinions.

The honest answer is really dependent on you. Can you relocate for school? Can you afford to attend the very best school? Are your UG grades good enough to get into decent NP schools? Do you plan on staying put when you graduate or can you relocate? Are you in a saturdatrd market?

For most people the best answer is to choose the school in their area that has the best reputation, a good boards pass rate, and high employment rate.

If you go to a great school, but live in a saturated market, you still might struggle to get a good job. On the opposite side, you could go to a for profit online school, but if you are cool living off the beaten path, have lots of jobs available to you.

My personal opinion is to choose a good public university in your area if there is one available. They're usually cheaper and you'll find yourself often sharing clinical sites with their more expensive private school counterparts.

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Thank you for the info

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I was only ever looking at ACNP programs but Pitt, Vanderbilt, Georgetown, Duke and Drexel were some of the programs on my list.

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My strategy was to set minimum criteria for me to apply for each school. I was only looking at ACNP programs, NO for-profits, must have "X" amount of clinical hours, must have on campus requirements, must have proctored exams, must have "real-time" lectures. Once you've selected "good" programs you attend the cheapest one you're accepted into. Haha. I only applied to one but it was the cheapest of the programs I was willing to attend and I was accepted.

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Which college did you apply for?

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I'll PM you.

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Hi,

Which school did you pick

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i recommend south alabmaa

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