How many credit hours did you take during summer in accelerated program?

[KaTStudentNurse]

For the people who are in accelerated nursing programs, how many credit hours do you take during the summer and how do you manage the courseload?

The program I will be attending in the fall is a BSN one that does gives it students the option to do the traditional track of 21 months (without summer) or the accelerated 16 month track (with summer while taking more than 8 credit hours). The accelerated track also does not require a previous bachelors, you just have to have at least a 3.0 GPA.

I already submitted my decision of choosing the traditional track but after some advisement from my family I am thinking about contacting the school and switching it before the deadline so we can be placed in a cohort.

Though I would like to hear stories of others first who is going through an accelerated program and wether you felt it was a good decision or not.

[verene, MSN]

We take the same number of credit hours during the summer as during other quarters (15-16). The workload isn't particularly different during the summer, but by going through summer it compresses the program into 15 months. My program is for second degree students and total workload is usually ~50 hours per week spent on school. With organization, time management, and reduced out-side commitments it is quite feasible to do well with this workload. The hard part is that your pretty much cannot work while in this program, which is hard if you want money or additional job experience while in school.

[bgxyrnf, MSN, RN]

How many credit hours did you take during summer in accelerated program?

16.

We also had no university holidays.

[AceOfHearts<3]

My program had 10 week sessions the entire program. We had anywhere between 21-24 credit hours a session. It was the shortest ABSN program (at the time- others have copied now).