How do Florida colleges compare. DSC, SSC, FSCJ, UCF Daytona .

[ArrowRN, BSN, RN]

Hey I live in the middle of these colleges so they are all on my list to apply to. I wanted to know if anyone has compared all of these colleges programs if you had to stack them up from highest to lower choice. Daytona State College ADN, UCF Daytona Campus for BSN, Seminole State College ADN and Florida State College at Jacksonville ADN. I guess St. Johns State and Bethune Cookman are also within my geographical area I just hardly here any comments about these two.

I current graduating with my AA and got all prereqs done from FSCJ.

My general opinions, I think FSCJ are a pretty good school and I readily get information from North Campus and they have good instructors. For DSC I only got hear-say but I think there website is lame, hard to find information and I'm been to the campus a few times and called them and everyone seems a bit clueless about everything. I been to Seminole and they were also nice and informative. UCF was most helful with everything, they even emailed all the procedures. That as far as I been to collect applications. But I do not know which has the actual best programs , most clinical experience, best professors, most hirings on completion etc. I guess I should be applying to all of them to spread my apples. I can't rmember where I saw this, but a ranking had FSCJ at the top of Florida's list for ADN programs for the past few years. I also heard Seminole State has the most advance training center. What do you guys think?

[ArrowRN, BSN, RN]

Well I found a program comparison based on nclex pass rates on florida's DOH website. Again previous pass rates does not necessarily mean one school is better than the other. Its just the percentage of persons who passed upon taking the test the first time.A school can have a 100% pass rate, but only 5 students took the test in the last year, so that is not a good judgement of where your school stands.

Anyways Here's how my 6 choices did and I also found some interesting info. for e.g UCF seems to be most consistent with 95% pass rates, followed by Seminole State and Daytona State then FSCJ. Most interesting is St. Johns State College program is NOT ACCREDITED , they have APPROVED status and Bethune cookman grads did not do too well at all. You can modify the search and pick your own school to see their pass rates and how they compare. Click on the SearchCriteria link below.

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[VanillaBean00]

Don't neglect the UCF-Seminole State concurrent program. :) You get your RN from Seminole while taking classes online with UCF, so you graduate from UCF with a BSN at the end of the program.

[kcamps]

I didn't know that this program existed. Thank you for the post.

[ArrowRN, BSN, RN]

Don't neglect the UCF-Seminole State concurrent program. :) You get your RN from Seminole while taking classes online with UCF, so you graduate from UCF with a BSN at the end of the program.

yeah I've read about it and spoke to their advisor. I think that is why Seminole ADN is 6 semesters long whereas most other ADN programs are 4 semesters...I dont know but I did ask them and they said it cant be done quicker unless u in a bridge transistional program. By the way for those applying to seminole according to their website 70% of seats are reserved for that concurrent program.