Pre-nursing: Ranked vs Unranked ABSN; ABSN vs ADN to BSN

[Phantc]

Hi! I began taking nursing prerequisites after graduating with a biology degree and no real professional career. I was wondering if a ranked versus unranked school play a large role in...1. getting a job, 2. admissions into a good masters program. 3. research opportunities. Or even ABSN versus ADN to BSN? In the end, is it all the same? Thanks!

[Student4_life]

The top schools have name value at the least. If you hear Hopkins that has an affect on you, and that can make a difference. It used to be said that a RN is a RN, but I am not sure that was completely true then and it certainly isn't completely true now.

I am going to an extreme here, but mind you the costs are comparable:

Johns Hopkins University, it's name is so well recognized that it's rank doesn't matter, then you have University of Phoenix, Carrington College, West Coast University, Strayer and those names are held so low in the overall academic world that even if they were ranked (not sure if they are, but even then rankings are for masters level) their name would imply a lower standard.

I can't say that school status is everything, but as it gets increasingly difficult to get a job or into a masters program, schools can become a tie breaker.