PhiThKap

look at the other direct-enty MSN programs in the area, like UIC or Rush ... compare before you decide. Rush seems just as good, plus they have their own affiliated hospital/medical center while DPU doesn't (forcing students to run all over Chicago for clinicals) plus Rush is shorter overall. oh yeah - also plan on having the RC viewpoint/dogma on ethical issues crammed down your throat

the bigger issue is the Nursing Accreditation and according to NLN's website, Brookline is listed as an accredited member institution. The next thing after that is their 1st-try NCLEX Pass-Rate, but that can be harder to find out since grads may not be testing for licensing in the same State as a school's location; but if their pass-rate for the State in which the school is located is not up to par, its within the purvue of the State Board of Nursing to close the school down .... so besides accreditation, any nursing program has to meet criteria from their local SBN

the problem is called OWW (old white women) they treat nursing school today the same as when they went through during the 50's and 60's, when schools could get away with being blatantly discriminatory to men and ethnic minorities -- sorry ladies, but nursing is a PROFESSION and and ACADEMIC field; the OWWs want to treat it as if it were still thye 50's when they were allowed to use non-objective selection criteria to determine who was "most deserving" - which usually had nothing to ovbjective merit-based academic performance! Schools should be forced to use only objective / performance based selection criteria. and by the way - the recognized "minorities" (ie. statistically "under-represented" student populations) for nursing are: men, ethnic minorities, disabled students, older students and "non-traditional sexual orientation or gendered" (per the federal govt) .... but try getting any of that enforced. \ Nursing will never get the professional recognition it deserves until it stops acting like school girls pledging a sorority.

too bad for you umartin. while most of UU's nursing faculty are genuinely nice Christian people, the leadership of the SON are deceptive & vindictive, they'd rather tolerate someone who cheats openly on coursework & exams. The curriculum revision they've just enacted seems designed only to generate more income than to actually improve the program! They really do not understand what it takes to effectively run an accelerated program - all they do is carve up the 16 week traditional BSN coursework into 6 or 7 day-long lectures and deliver it in massive all day long lectures - now its a 16 month pressure cooker instead of 12 - and 79 credits instead of 60 (at nearly $500/credit). Some instructors are openly hostile to minorities (count the number of minority faces you see, ethnic or male ..... ) and if you're not Baptist or another acceptable fundamentalist church, well, plan on a rough time ... oh yeah - check your financials carefully & repeatedly to keep from getting overcharged - very critical considering the financial aid awards are so pitifully small. Thoroughly document everything that happens - everyday - because the faculty can retroactively create negative incident reports and put them in the dept file on you that you don't know exists, until they use it to screw you.