Ranking

[GuineaPigs, BSN, RN]

Hi all,

I understand that the CRNA school rankings are subjective. I'm curious as to why people would give certain schools a lower score and others a higher score? Is it because they feel that their school inadequately prepared them? Or do certain schools encourage/actively make a majority of their students respond to their surveys? Does a lower ranked school mean that the student is more likely to have a subpar education?

Thanks

[BigPappaCRNA]

The rankings are highly, highly subjective. But they do look at certain benchmarks, and these are not really important. Let's look at 1st time board pass rate. Sure it is nice, but it tells you nothing about the program. It could quite literally be the worst program in the country, but have a high rate, because they have taught their students how to pass a test, rather than how to administer an anesthetic. I have seen some programs get cited by the COA for low rate, and the programs plan is to make the students attend 2,3, or 4 board review programs, all on the students dime. Then they actually have someone teaching their students, and their rate goes up, and now they look like they are "highly successful" even though it is a joke.

This is is just one example of the rankings meaning nothing. But I will say, that those in the bottom third really are there for a reason. No matter the metric, there is no reasonable case that they should be in the top third. So, what does that mean? Well, is the 5th highest rated school better than the 12th? Probably not. But is the 20th highest rated program better than the 93rd? Most likely, yes.

[GuineaPigs, BSN, RN]

What about the school rankings given by Search for Top CRNA Schools in Your Area which they claim to be ranked by actual data and not subjectiveness?

[BigPappaCRNA]

What about the school rankings given by Search for Top CRNA Schools in Your Area which they claim to be ranked by actual data and not subjectiveness?

Well, I just reviewed several programs on that website. It is highly inaccurate and woefully outdated. Of the first three programs at which I looked, they still have a program director listed who has been gone for over 5 years. They have a program listed in California which does not exist in California, and never did!! They have some listed which no longer exist. They don't even have any program listed in Arizona, even though there are two. Several reviews still list score requirements for the GRE with the old criteria.

Maybe, maybe that site was relevant and valid at some point, but right now it is horribly outdated. Buyer beware.

[jj224]

Also.. keep this in mind about first time board pass rates. If you're in a large program with 60 people, you can have 6 people fail and still have a higher pass rate than if you had one person fail in a class of 8. Lots of subjectivity

[Spine_CRNA, BSN, RN]

Are the All-CRNA-Schools website Save Hours of Searching for the Best CRNA Program | All CRNA Schools rankings accurate? They too claim to avoid subjectivity and rank off data.