How Much is a BSN Worth?

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I would like to hear your thoughts on schools and costs. I have been done with my nursing pre-reqs for over a year and a half. I have applied at community colleges and have been denied or put on a wait list. For the current wait list I am on, I have moved from 212 to 136 in a semester. That still leaves me at least 2 maybe 3 semesters away. I am now thinking of paying the $30,000 to go to LVN just to get something started. Problem there is that I do not want to be stuck at the LVN level. I could always go on, but when and for how much more? Option 3 is to pay a ridiculous amount of money but get my BSN in two years. It would be about $100,000 overall but with grants I would hopefully be financing about $75,000.

I am almost 28 and a single mom with one son. My boyfriend is a RN and is an LVN instructor and my mother is a RN who also teaches. I have the knowledge around me to help me through the process.

What would you do? Keep waiting and waiting for community college, pay to be an LVN and then see what happens next or take on the debt and have a BSN in the amount of time (if not less due to wait time) it takes to get a ADN???

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Holey moley! What I would do is find some other option besides $30k for an LVN program or $100k for a BSN!!

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How many students are admitted each year to the ADN program? Can you continue to take classes that will help you get your BSN later on?

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How many students are admitted each year to the ADN program? Can you continue to take classes that will help you get your BSN later on?

About 50. I could continue on, its just the thought of age and actually going back.

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Specializes in Critical Care, Clinical Documentation Specialist.

OUCH!! Our BSN program is about 25k and it's one of the top in the state (if not THE top) and 4 of their MSN specialty programs placed in the top 10 nationwide. I would look into other options, even if it takes a year or two longer... the cost difference is worth it in the long run.

Good Luck!

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Specializes in NeuroICU/SICU/MICU.

My 6-semester BSN program cost around $17,500 at a state school. Where are you wanting to go that would cost you $100k?

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The other number to factor in, is two years of RN salary (figuring that you'd graduate two years earlier with the BSN program). Assuming there's no wait list for the BSN program, you'd start getting paid an RN's salary two years earlier than you would with the ADN program.

Just curious (it is more than just a nick name with me :D ) is this a private program? Are there other programs in your state that are maybe further away but cheaper? A move for school is a pain in the butt....however, it might be financially worth while to investigate.

I also go to a nationally ranked BS program.....and my total school budget (books, housing, tuition, etc) is $60,000 for two years. So, $100,000 sounds like a lot...

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