How many graduates were in your graduating class?

RNgirly07 · Mar 5, 2015

My nursing program, a BSN program at a university, admitted 75 students three times a year. I believe around 65-70 graduated. The ACT or SAT was required, and the official GPA for admission was 2.5, but you actually had to have around a 3.5 to be accepted. We also had to complete prerequisite courses and pass a math test with at least 90%. It seems odd that the program you described doesn't really have any entrance requirements.

MedChica · Mar 5, 2015

LPN, here.

I had between 38- 42 and graduated with 15-20. 2 were wash-backs.

We lost a great deal of our class in Med Surg/Pharm.

EDIT: The bridge program that I'm looking into has a 67% retention rate (92% NCLEX pass-rate).

katie92 · Mar 5, 2015

My group started with 79. We ended with around 50, however - This also included LPNs who joined our program in the second semester and countless people who failed previous semesters who 'fell' into our group.

calivianya, BSN, RN · Mar 5, 2015

My class graduated 72.

Don't let low requirements fool you. My BSN program had a 3.0 requirement, but that didn't matter because the year before mine the candidates were so competitive that nobody under a 3.8 got in, as an example. In a high demand program like nursing that has more applicants than spots, the minimum requirements are essentially useless pieces of information because the average accepted student will be light years above the minimum requirements. In fact, since community colleges are cheaper, they are typically harder to get into because they have way more applicants than the BSN programs.

mmc51264, BSN, MSN, RN · Mar 5, 2015

ADN program-started with 60ish; graduated 30. Each school in our state has a limited number of slots so that one school doesn't have all and that they can limit how many new nurses are turned out very year.

Knights Nurse · Mar 5, 2015

My BSN program started with 40, we graduated with 26 and have had a 100% NCLEX pass rate for the past 8 years.

allnurses Guide · Mar 5, 2015

48 in my class with two cohorts graduating each year. A total of 96 graduates each year pumping into the local economy from this one community college alone. There are at least 15 other colleges of nursing in the area. Tons of new grads with lots of difficulty finding jobs.

BusiestBSN · Mar 5, 2015

I am in a small BSN program about to graduate. We started with 45 nursing students & now in our 4th semester are graduating 25. The class below us have even worse ~ started with 48 and by their 2nd (current) semester they only have 32. I can only imagine how many more will drop/fail out since they are in med/surg this semester.

TheCommuter, BSN, RN · Mar 5, 2015

I attended an LPN-to-ASN transition program that accepted anyone with an LPN license who could pass the entrance exam.

The class started with about 100 students (50 in the day class, 50 in the night class) and about 80 graduated on time.

BrandonLPN, LPN · Mar 5, 2015

"Limited" is relative. 80-100 students admitted to a nursing program any given semester does sound like a lot. But if you consider thousands likely applied, using the word 'limited' makes more sense.

**LibraSunCNM, BSN, MSN, CNM** · Mar 5, 2015

Huh, I've never really thought about how large my graduating class for undergrad nursing was, I think close to 150. My cohort of traditional 4 year students right out of high school was the minority, about 30, and the rest were the accelerated, 2nd degree students who were getting their BSN in 15 months.