Keepin' the fire goin... what to do after graduating Excelsior ADN program

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So, continuing with Excelsior college is probably my cheapest option. But it seems that their credibility is in a downward spiral. I fear that if the day came when I wanted to apply to a grad program, I would be limited because of where I graduated.

However, when I look into other schools, it looks like finishing a BSN would take $20k plus. Seems too expensive and unattainable. Have any EC grads found cheaper solutions for a BSN at other schools?

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Specializes in Psych, LTC, Acute Care.

Have you tried you local state supported college? They will probably be the cheapest. In my state of NC we have 16 state supported colleges and most of their RN-BSN programs run $2000-7000. PM Lunah. She made a list. Some are exspensive and some are not.

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Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.

Definitely try your state schools, J ...

http://nursing.boisestate.edu/admissions/rnbsonline.asp?ID=admissions

http://www.byui.edu/nursing/bsn/BSNGeneralInfo.htm

I'm also attaching my almighty spreadsheet. :D It has some of my state schools (Virginia), plus private schools. This is from last year, though, so some tuition info is sure to be out of date.

I ended up choosing Chamberlain, which, while it had the highest tuition of ALL the schools I looked at, it had the fewest requirements for me to attain my BSN. The other schools wanted me to repeat classes I'd had already, and coming in with 206 credit hours, I really didn't want to do that. I applied to Chamberlain, U of Wisconsin-Green Bay, and Slippery Rock. Slippery Rock couldn't seem to get their act together to respond to my inquiries, so I struck them from the list. U of Wisconsin-Green Bay wanted me to take 47 credits; Chamberlain, 32. The price was nearly the same, so I went with Chamberlain (although I really liked Green Bay's program -- it looked great!). I'm very happy with Chamberlain so far, but it might be way too pricey for students who don't have as many credits as I did going in. I actually only needed classes amounting to 30 credits, but they require 32 to graduate from their program; thus, I ended up taking a 2-credit computer class. Heh. That was an easy A for me!

I also got the unofficial eval from EC, and they want me to take 40 credits, and couldn't tell me if my stats course from 1991 would satisfy the statistics requirement until I paid the enrollment fee, even though they initially encouraged me to scan in and email the syllabus from my stats class, which I did. Then it was, "Oh, it looks good, but we can't promise anything." I thought that was lame; I expected more from them as a recent grad, I guess. A bit disappointing.

RN-BSN_Programs.pdf

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