OU graduation rates

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I ran across this interesting little article recently. Seems that 2 of the OU campuses (Southern and Chillicothe) are among the leaders in having the lowest undergraduate graduation rates among public colleges in the US. I would hope the that the main (Athens) campus rates are higher but then again, OU beat out Penn State this year for number 1 party school so who knows. Another Ohio school, Kent State, also has 2 campuses on the list with even lower rates.

While Ohio leads the nation in having 4 of the top (bottom) 11 colleges in terms of graduation rate, even the worst Ohio school has a rate more than two times better than the worst school (Southern University in LA), which managed to graduate a whopping 4% of their students. Interestingly, Southern's acceptance rate is 48%, which begs the questions: Where do the 52% of their unsuccessful applicants go and what kind of graduation rates do those schools have?

11 Public Universities with the Worst Graduation Rate

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Media/Slideshow/2012/05/17/11-Public-Universities-With-The-Worst-Graduation-Rates.aspx?index=6

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Specializes in Oncology.

OU's online BSN completion program is completely busy work. I haven't learned anything basically.

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Specializes in Pediatrics.

I went to OU Chillicothe LPN to RN program. I recommend it.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Neuro, ICU, travel RN, Psych.
OU's online BSN completion program is completely busy work. I haven't learned anything basically.

I don't completely agree, while I think a lot of it is busy work that doesn't really teach much, I thought there were some things to learn in the Legal/ethics class, and the Cross Cultural class. Although to be honest, I've heard the same complaint from pretty much everyone I have ever spoke with in any RN-BSN program, no matter what the school was.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Neuro, ICU, travel RN, Psych.
I went to OU Chillicothe LPN to RN program. I recommend it.

This is for an RN to BSN program she is referring to.

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Specializes in Oncology.

Well, there were small things that I find useful, and I'm not done with it yet, took summer off... but it seems to be more focused on "can you write an APA citation" than anything that I can really take away and use in nursing so far. My ADN program covered the cross-cultural stuff so it was like retaking a class.

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Specializes in nursing.

I must agree....I don't think I am learning as much as I had hoped/planned. I think it's a combo of some repetitive information and the fast pace of 5 weeks. Sometimes I just want to get the work done! I also wonder if I would have received a better education at Drexel....but those idiots wouldn't accept all of my credits...I needed 97 credits for them (semester) and I have the ADN from Hahnemann (the program Drexel took over) so go figure. But I chose the cost and convenience of OU. One good thing....I'm learning a lot about APA format

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Neuro, ICU, travel RN, Psych.
I must agree....I don't think I am learning as much as I had hoped/planned. I think it's a combo of some repetitive information and the fast pace of 5 weeks. Sometimes I just want to get the work done! I also wonder if I would have received a better education at Drexel....but those idiots wouldn't accept all of my credits...I needed 97 credits for them (semester) and I have the ADN from Hahnemann (the program Drexel took over) so go figure. But I chose the cost and convenience of OU. One good thing....I'm learning a lot about APA format

Honestly, I don't hear too much from anyone who says they really learned much in a BSN program. So many people do it just to get it done. I guess maybe I just didn't have too high of expectations to start, haha.

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