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?
Specializes in Vents, Telemetry, Home Care, Home infusion.
1982 Neumann commuter college BSN: 35 entered; 28 matriculated. Now B+M university with dorms: 2013-2014 -- 66 graduates took NCLEX.
PA graduates 2nd highest # nursing graduates each year so many leave to work elsewhere in US. From 10/2013 to 9/2014, 7,164 graduates took NCLEX with 82% pass rate = 5,933.
10/2013-2014 PA Nursing Programs with high # graduates taking NCLEX:
Community College of Allegheny County ADN: 293 (compared to 2012-2013 had 425 candidates)
There were a total of 30 people that started the last semester of my ADN program but the instructors told us many times that we were a "unique class" and that "about 10 of us shouldn't have passed the last semester". Sadly, only 23 or the 30 passed. I've been told that this many student failing the last semester is very rare.
I was glad to have only 30 people in my class. It was easier to get my questions answered in class, 88 seems like a lot of people to have shoved in a room to be learning such challenging material.
My very first Saturday skills class started with 22 people. By the time we finished 4 years later there were 4 of that original group. Some dropped, some failed, some stopped at the halfway point and were happy with their LPN degree.
The bulk of those we lost though were ones that were able to slide into the FT days program at the halfway point d/t those that failed/dropped/stopped. We did pick up 4 more at the halfway mark, current LPN's who decided to finish out their RN degrees. We were also combined with the FT group for the last year and all told there were probably 32-35 of us that finished together. We all passed the NCLEX on our first try too
NRSKarenRN, BSN, RN
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1982 Neumann commuter college BSN: 35 entered; 28 matriculated. Now B+M university with dorms: 2013-2014 -- 66 graduates took NCLEX.
PA graduates 2nd highest # nursing graduates each year so many leave to work elsewhere in US. From 10/2013 to 9/2014, 7,164 graduates took NCLEX with 82% pass rate = 5,933.
10/2013-2014 PA Nursing Programs with high # graduates taking NCLEX:
Community College of Allegheny County ADN: 293 (compared to 2012-2013 had 425 candidates)
Drexel University BSN: 357
Harrisburg Area Community College ADN: 364
Jefferson BSN: 243