Searching for Good Nursing Schools

goldie1 · Jan 8, 2008

Univ of Chicago

Loyola

any community college like Triton

The City of Chicago colleges ie Truman

dePaul

is to name a fewto get u started

Anders.C · Jan 8, 2008

Do you know if the City College of Chicago have good nursing programs? I'm clueless as far as school reputations in Chicago! Thank you!

livingthedream, APN · Jan 8, 2008

I cannot comment on their nursing school through the CCC (chicago city colleges) but I can say that when I went there for pre-reqs it was horrible. I went to Harold Washington (no nursing program, but all pre-reqs) and they treat you like you are 9 years old. You have to wait hours in line to see someone just so you can register for the class that you know you need. WHY do I have to see an "advisor" for one class, and they make everything very complex when it really is not. It was a horrible eye opener for me after coming from an undergrad experience that was very easy and treated college students as adults.

Jilaweez, BSN, MSN, RN · Jan 9, 2008

Are you looking in the City or Burbs?

Anders.C · Jan 10, 2008

Preferably, city.

michelle9655 · Jan 11, 2008

I heard the UIC has the best nursing program around chicago. i, however, go to harper college which is pretty much a big community college in the suburbs. i like it so far but i am only a freshman.

livingthedream, APN · Jan 11, 2008

If you are a transfer, I would see which school will:

A: accept you - many schools are very hard to get into and have waiting lists

B: will transfer the majority if not all of your current credits

Good luck!!

4rom2bRN · Jan 11, 2008

I have a few friends who are attending Prarie state. They absolutely love it. They say the teachers are strict but in a much needed way.

City Colleges of Chicago is substandard. I know they are being sued by several, several students from their various city colleges. I have not heard one good thing about their programs. My aunt went there, she is still traumatize by what they have done to her and her classmates. I think they have a differnet agenda other than teaching nurses to become nurses. If any, I think Daley I heard was okay.

If you can't go out in suburbs. Go to St. Xavier its a four year program and their faculties are all about teaching their students. Unlike the college mentioned above.

Triton is a two year, I heard good things about them.

Good Luck! Do some more research - thats very important.

Jilaweez, BSN, MSN, RN · Jan 11, 2008

Preferably, city.

I am in the burbs. I went to Harper and now NIU. I loved/love both. In the city I have heard good things about UIC and Rush.

4rom2bRN · Jan 20, 2008

rush and loyola have great nursing programs. its not an adn but a bsn. at loyola, however, if you have a ba in something else, they definitely want you. you will receive a few incentives also.

go to their websites for more info. rush and loyola are expensive. thats why the instructors there are the bomb.

rush another great school, teaching hospital. organized. busy.

city colleges of chicago, i would recommend to stay away far away from them. there are alot of students who are suing them. the instructors and chancellors do not care about you becoming a skillful, and knowledgeable nurse. why, do you? they provide my aunt and her classmates with no nursing tutors, resource center closed, mock skills labs closed and no director of nursing. but yet the students still paid 450. for lab fees. that is based on my aunt's experiences there. i guess if you have several, several students suiing you, its best to find other schools. most of the city colleges school are not nln accrediated. its affordable tuition. maybe that why... you get what you pay for. i would rather pay extra just so i can have an instructor will wants to educate me and knows how to teach.

prairie state college in the suburabs, i have heard everything good about this school. tuitions are reasonable

a new school opened up in chicago...robert morris, have not heard anything about them yet. i also heard that kaplan will be having nursing program in the near future.

do research. listen to current of past students. they will tell you the truth about the school and instructors. its okay to have a strict instructor as long as they know what they are teaching about. as long as is constructive and not destructive.

wish you luck! :specs:

DermNP2Be · Jan 22, 2008

I cannot comment on their nursing school through the CCC (chicago city colleges) but I can say that when I went there for pre-reqs it was horrible. I went to Harold Washington (no nursing program, but all pre-reqs) and they treat you like you are 9 years old. You have to wait hours in line to see someone just so you can register for the class that you know you need. WHY do I have to see an "advisor" for one class, and they make everything very complex when it really is not. It was a horrible eye opener for me after coming from an undergrad experience that was very easy and treated college students as adults.

Boy does that sound familiar! I went to ccc's for my Associate's and livingthedream is not lying! You will stand in line for hours for absolutely no reason at all... the staff is rude, I haven't heard 1 good thing about the nursing program... in fact my cousin graduated from one of the ccc's nursing programs and told me that she finally figured out how to graduate during her last 2 semesters: kiss major professor butt. From what I've learned on this forum that I didn't know before, a couple of the ccc's nursing programs are not accredited (or wasn't at the time someone on this board said so- about 6 or 7 months ago). You don't get your financial aid refund check until about a month or two before the semester ends, and the list goes on! I now go to UIC, and although very, very, intense- I feel I'm getting a very good education.