NYC area BSN Programs: Everything you ever wanted to know

Goingthere · Jun 1, 2009

College of New Rochelle:

Main campus for nursing in New Rochelle, NY -40min from Manhattan

Accelerated 18 month program, and individualized program for second degree students.

Basic program for sophmores.

Tuition: 861 per credit-12,200 a semester

Accelerated program class size 25 students. Moderately difficult to get into.

Need a strong sense of determination and independence to complete.

Alumni placement availible.

Rolling admissions.

ccjus123 · Jun 1, 2009

There's also York College (Queens, NY)

http://www.york.cuny.edu/academics/departments/health-professions/program-courses/nursing

ccjus123 · Jun 1, 2009

Sorry about the previous post, but York has two tracks for the BSN program:

A generic track

and

another track for RN's who already have a diploma or asn

http://www.york.cuny.edu/academics/departments/health-professions/program-courses/nursing/bs-in-nursing

MariposaNYC · Jun 3, 2009

Thanks everyone. Keep 'em coming.

Also: I think I may be wrong about Queens college and that I might have confused it with York (they're both in East Queens). Please disregard unless someone points out otherwise.

SarahNYC · Jun 12, 2009

This is a great post. Thanks so much for compiling all this info. I've looked through a lot of these programs, but I find some of it a little confusing. I have a BA already and I'm looking for a BSN program that I can do either full or part time (not accelerated) starting in 2010 (need time t odo the pre-reqs) because my husband and I are planning to get pregnant soon. It seems that most of the BSN programs are for RNs without a bachelor degree or people who need the full four year deal. Any suggestions or advice? Thank you!

MariposaNYC · Jun 12, 2009

SarayNYC:

Almost every one of these schools offer options for getting a BSN after you already have a BA (not 100% sure about York).

If you want to go part time, Adelphi (both Manhattan and Garden City) is the only option that I know of. If you want to go full time, you should be able to choose between Adelphi, NYU, Columbia, and possibly Molloy. The CUNY schools may also accept you, although I think you'll be in school longer.

If you don't currently live in NYC, you may want to look into SUNY Stony Brook's 12 month accelerated program to just get everything out of the way. It's about 2hrs away from the city by car, but is generally held in high regard.

Good luck.

guiltysins · Jun 15, 2009

Long Island University (current student):

Tuition varies by the amount of credits you take. The more credits you take the higher the tuition but it's between 22k-30k. There are some good professors and some bad professors, so far I haven't had any problems with the professors. The administration is very meh but financial aid (at least for me) was fairly good. The dorms are horrible though, most students are leaving them (3 to room).

As far as their nursing program, there's been a few problems this semester because they just started to allow registration online and they are working the bugs out of the system. Also they can be a little disorganized. The motto for the nursing program is "easy to get into, hard to stay in". Meaning if you have GPA over 3.3 and have a science GPA over 3.0 you'll be just fine. They accept about 130 people into the nursing program every semester but by the time graduation come only 60 have made it. The program is very difficult and include exit Hesi exams every semester. There is no seperate application for the nursing program, if you are accepted as a nursing student then that's exactly what you are. You have to finish all your general ed and nursing pre-reqs before starting the program and then you have to take the HESI A2, but they only look at vocab, grammar, reading and math.

Overall I don't have a real problem with the school but maybe that's just the way I see it. The students are very friendly and people tend to branch off freshman year. The school is divided basically. You've got the students that are there for typical majors like Business, Art, English ect and then you have the health profession students doing physical therapy, pharmacy, nursing, physician assistant ect. Health profession students usually take to eachother and lose contact with the other students because of the large volume of science classes we all take together. The health profession students are very serious about their education because the programs are very difficult. The only ones that tend to goof off are the other students. I've been at the school two years and I hardly have any friends that aren't some type of health profession major. Clinical sites for nursing are New York Methodist, Brooklyn Hospital, Maimonides Medical Center, Lutheran Medical Center, NYP, New York Hospital-Queens and wycoff hospital. Lecture classes have about 40 students the most, Labs have 10 and clinicals have 10.

The campus is small but it looks rather nice. All the health profession majors are in the newest building with the better facilities. The school was a good fit for me and alot of students are really happy with it, while others can't wait to get it out so it really depends on the person and what they expect. The biggest complaint is that it's too expensive which I couldn't agree with more. So I guess to put it in perspective, if I weren't doing nursing or any other health profession they offer, I wouldn't come to the school because I really only associate with the health profession focus on the school.

guiltysins · Jun 15, 2009

Sorry for the double posting but I didn't want to make that message scroll forever. I also attended Lehman College for a year before transferring out.

I haven't heard too many good things about Lehman College. First of they don't have a school of nursing, meaning that they don't have a dean for the school, it's run by the same people that run the rest of the college. There are no specific nursing advisors, at least for the pre-nursing students and when you go to an advisor they pretty much tell you all different things if you don't see the same one every time. They have what they call a block schedule for the first semester where you pick from a premade schedule of classes. If you don't get a nursing block you're screwed because their you miss out on A&P for the entire year. They have have A&P I during the fall semesters and A&P II during the spring. It's extremely competitive to get into the program because they only allow 60 or 70 students in. There's a high school on the campus and the students eat in the same cafeteria, walk across campus ect and sometimes it was very annoying. The students are also still on the high school mentality for the most part. You have to apply to the school and then apply seperately to the program once you finish up your pre-reqs. Their entrance exam is the PAX-RN exam. It doesn't matter if you retake science courses because they take the first grade only, regardless of whether you got an A in the class the second time around. Trying to get the science pre-reqs in this school was like playing the lottery. You were lucky if you registered early enough before all the classes closed. They didn't require you to take any psychology classes for the nursing program which I found a little odd. Their nursing courses aren't bad, about 30-35 people for lecture and 10 people for clinicals.

There nursing program was on probation once before for having low pass rates on the NCLEX and I think they might have actually lost their accredidation once a few years ago.

They have a nice size campus, about 40 acres, there's about four classroom buildings, students aren't allowed to use the elevators though unless they have a pass, but that doesn't matter because there are only four floors. The nursing department is in this little shack of a building that also houses health services and a day care center.

MariposaNYC · Jun 15, 2009

GuiltySins:

WOW! It sounds like you're having a good experience at LIU. All nursing schools are going to have some administrative BS (especially in NYC for some reason), but it seems to be great overall.

Now, on to Lehman: Wow! All I can say is CUNY never changes, and it isn't worth the money. It sounds like a nightmare!

Thank you for sharing your experiences with both schools. This should provide a great resource to future students looking into programs.

guiltysins · Jun 15, 2009

GuiltySins:
WOW! It sounds like you're having a good experience at LIU. All nursing schools are going to have some administrative BS (especially in NYC for some reason), but it seems to be great overall.
Now, on to Lehman: Wow! All I can say is CUNY never changes, and it isn't worth the money. It sounds like a nightmare!
Thank you for sharing your experiences with both schools. This should provide a great resource to future students looking into programs.

Thank you, even though the LIU discussion a few posts down gives a whole different view on what they think LIU is. I'm not going to call them liars because maybe they have gone through hell but comparing it to my CUNY experience, it's a lot better. Not to mention it's really the only option I have right now so I'm going to try to find the best of it lol

jjean331 · Jul 17, 2009

Pace also has 2 programs one that is 1 year full time or 2 year full time. they alternate between westchester and downtown campus. they have an open house at the westchester campus on july 21 at 530 pm