I was reading the newspaper earlier tonight and I saw that a local community college had a total of 88 graduates in their nursing program and I was taken aback by this. I'm still pre-nursing myself, but everything I've ever heard and read has led me to believe that most nursing schools take a very limited amount of students and even less students actually make it through the program. Even the state university where I live (NJ) only turns out about 25-30 graduates per year, so 88 seems really high to me.
For some information on this nursing school: they have no admission requirements or tests to get into the school, and all are accepted as long as they have a 2.5 GPA.
Reading about this high number of graduates made me wonder; is this as out of the ordinary as I believe it to be? How many graduates were in your graduating class?
BSN class at private university, most of us new high school grads but a few older students. I don't know how many they admitted (I transferred in at 2nd year) but we graduated 136.
140 of us went into our pre reqs. Half failed out in anatomy.
71 got into nursing school We lost 3 in pharm and another one in medsurg and graduated 67.
4 year university, many started right out of HS. This was the traditional program, there was also an accelerated, but I don't know the numbers. 6 failed nclex, the rest passed first try.
I graduated from a traditional brick and mortar university-affiliated BSN program. Each class had 120 students that were admitted once a year. I think 112 graduated? Average GPA was a 3.9 upon admission. I know the year I started (2009), our Dean made a huge fuss about how our nursing school at more applicants per seat than the medical school next door.
We started with 40, graduated with 23. Three of them were from the previous year, having failed ob/gyn/peds. Med/surg took out the majority of my starting class. A few others had life issues that caused them to have to drop. One got a job with the postal service in the first semester and quit lol. To each his own, I suppose.
Specializes in public health, women's health, reproductive health.
I think we started with 80, graduated with something like 52, of which only half were our original class (there were transfers and people who originally started before us, but had to retake a semester). So, it appears we lost quite a few of our original cohort. Not sure if that's unusual for the school I attended.
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My BSN class started out with 50, and by graduation there were only 25. They only graduate once per year.
The expectation is to maintain 85% for all classes not just nursing. I have seen people dropped for 79.8% average; they did not round up. Our NCLEX pass rate is 98%.
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1971, hospital based nsg. program; started with 79, of which 32 graduated Sorry, but I have to brag, I graduated 2nd in my class I only say this because I was not a particularly 'good' student in HS, and it was the first time in my life I was actually proud of myself.
They had classes starting in September and February. All you needed was a HS diploma and a decent grade on the pre-entrance exam.
Haven't got a clue how many did or didn't pass the licensing exam. It would be interesting to know, but everyone pretty much scattered to the four winds after it was all over. There is only one person from my class on the school's (computer) alum page and I didn't know her very well at all. The school has since merged with another small school and is no longer affiliated with the hospital.
I only say this because I was not a particularly 'good' student in HS, and it was the first time in my life I was actually proud of myself.
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BSN class at private university, most of us new high school grads but a few older students. I don't know how many they admitted (I transferred in at 2nd year) but we graduated 136.