Least Expensive School for Pre-Requisite Courses?

MurseJJ · Apr 28, 2015

A CUNY or a SUNY community college would be best. As I mentioned in the other thread, I enrolled as a non-degree student at a CUNY and did some of my prereqs there. As a non-degree, you are charged a higher tuition than degree/matriculated students, so perhaps you could look into becoming a matriculated student (maybe declare liberal arts or something). I ended up finishing the prereqs at Nassau CC because it was a lot cheaper.

KrushNYC · Apr 28, 2015

Thank you -

DoGoodThenGo · Apr 29, 2015

No two ways about it; CUNY or SUNY. That is unless you happen to work for a private university that allows employees to take classes free or at a discounted rate.

One of the reasons so many CUNY standard nursing pre-req classes are often so full is you have students getting a bulk of their work done "on the cheap" as it were before transferring/applying to a private program. This is not unique to nursing by the way and taking courses at local community or whatever college then moving on to private is a highly recommended way to keep degree costs down.

A&P, Bact, Micro, Nutrition, etc... are all pretty much standard courses wherever you go. Some may be taught to a higher level of difficulty than others but long as you make sure the content matches whatever school you want to transfer credits things should be fine.

KrushNYC · Apr 30, 2015

Thank you - I'm thinking of doing them online as well so long as they're from accredited universities - of course I'll check with the universities I'm applying to first -