Prerequisites for nursing-community college or four year college?

Published

Hello all,

I've been thinking about nursing as a second career, more specifically at becoming a nurse practitioner. I'm in the process of looking at different schools to see what classes they require, but I have a question. Is it better for me to take my prereqs at a regular 4 year college, as opposed to a community college? If you're in the NYC area, I'm thinking about BMCC and Brooklyn College.

Would appreciate any input

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in public health.

Where you get your degree or where you take your classes has nothing to do with whether you are a good nurse or not. Heck, it even has nothing to do with whether you are going to pass NCLEX or not. As long as you can pass NCLEX and get licensed as a RN, employers don't care whether you got your degree from Johns Hopkins or some community college.

Up Vote Up Vote ×

For prereqs you can take them anywhere you want to. If a cc has it and you can sign up for classes and get what you need, go for it(the cost per unit is cheaper than at a state school).

I can see why it may be good to take prereqs at a state university only if they require applicants to specifically take prereqs at their school and give priority to their own students who are at that school. I've seen this happen for one school where they gave priority to their own internal pre nursing freshman students.

Take a good look at requirements from the program.

Up Vote Up Vote ×
+ Join the Discussion