RN to BSN Online...Need advice

silentRN · Feb 21, 2011

GCU isn't 20K...it runs about 12K...which if you compare that to any state University is a lot cheaper...remember 3 semesters vs 5 semesters...

AnaCatRN · Feb 21, 2011

I'm not quite at the point of enrolling yet, but just an FYI - a lot of the programs mentioned above are for-profit. Chamberlain is a division of DeVry. Kaplan is the Washington Post Company. Grand Canyon's full name is "Grand Canyon University Inc." $20K is very expensive for a BSN bridge, and $30-40K is highway robbery. Many state university systems now have an online RN-BSN option and a state school is a whole lot cheaper than these for-profits. NY, MA, TX, OH, WY, FL, AL, KS state universities have online RN-BSN and there are more states that have it. Often, there is a flat rate per credit, it does not matter if you live in that state or not. Explore your options and comparison shop before you choose.

That is very true. The for-profits are very expensive. I wanted to go with the University of Illinois at Chicago program, but I didn't want to wait for the next academic year to start. I made the choice to pay more for the convenience of starting in a few weeks and finishing in 11 months. For-profit status doesn't make a program bad, if it's accredited, it just makes it cost more - but the cost is usually the same as a private non-profit school. I wouldn't have gone with Chamberlain if it weren't accredited (by both the CCNE and NLN). Another poster mentioned that you won't find many RN-BSN programs that aren't online, and that is true. Yet another mentioned that grad schools won't take BSN degrees from schools that don't have grades and GPAs. That is very true, and you should be really careful to avoid those schools.