If you woul like to study nursing in Puerto Rico this might be helpful.
First, I live in NY. Nursing promgramas here are very competitive, even in private school. And thay ask for a lot of requirements.
So I'm moving to PR this summer to finish my associate degree in nursing. I'll be going to UMET Bayamón from Ana G. Mendez System.
About the program
They have practical nurse Certificate, associate Degree, Bachellor degree and Master degree.
Schedule, hours, days
Day program:
The programs during the day are semestral. There are 2 semester, 1 starts on mid August to mid December and the second one from Mid January to mid May then if you woul like you can take summer clases.
Night program classes are every 8 weeks.
Agust-October
October-December
January-March
March-June
And summer
There are diferent classes hours and dates, including weekend classes.
REQUIREMENS
The only requirement is 2.30 GPA
ACREDITATION
This system wich has around 5 schools
Is certificated by
the MSCHE (Middle State Commision on Higer Education)
and the nursing program is certificate by
CCNE (Acreditation Commision for Educational Nurse)
LANGUAGE
Clases are in Spanish. Only UMET Bayamon have a bilingual (English/Spanish) nursing program. This is during the night and is a Bachellor degree.
With this program you can have a Register nurse license and you can work in United States.
Contact your state Board of Nursing before you made a decision to see what are the requirement to have a licence in your state.
UMET is offering less than two core Nursing courses in English each semester now. That means that you will get an ADN in 3 years or a BSN in five years (if you are lucky!).
Both U Inter graduates and UMET graduates are eligible to sit for NCLEX RN. Both are regionally accredited if you are planning an MSN in the future. Now it seems U Inter would be a lot better option that UMET because you could graduate a lot quicker at U Inter.
Based on the UMET policy of offering very few nursing classes in English you can add at least one year, perhaps two years, to your nursing program. Now, all of a sudden U Inter is the least expensive option, as you can get a ADN in 15 months because they have no prereqs!
I posted a warning about the recent changes at UMET. Please note that it might be a few dollars cheaper at UMET, but, if you have to stay in PR one more year to get an ADN (3 years in total) or two more years (5 years for BSN) then your living expenses for the extra years will be a lot more than the tuition savings!
Also, UMET has very few online classes in English for their GE classes, whereas U Inter has almost all GE classes online, that you could complete from your home!
I posted a warning about the recent changes at UMET. Please note that it might be a few dollars cheaper at UMET, but, if you have to stay in PR one more year to get an ADN (3 years in total) or two more years (5 years for BSN) then your living expenses for the extra years will be a lot more than the tuition savings!
Also, UMET has very few online classes in English for their GE classes, whereas U Inter has almost all GE classes online, that you could complete from your home!
thanks for the info! If the GE is online, will I be doing those GE's while in the nursing program of Inter? I've done some pre-reqs, hopefully they transfer through. Also, what if my gpa isn't that great? I sent my transcripts for high school and some college courses (no bachelors, just classes I've taken) but if they base it off my high school gpa.. It's around a 2.4.. Which is low I know!
You can do your languages online in Puerto Rico? In Orlando we have to attend in person for 8 long weeks (for each class). Might add that the language classes are so basic I feel it's a waste of money, time and gas!
I am in PR right now. I have met with both U Inter and UMET admissions office. I met with U Inter director of nursing. I am trying to schedule one with UMET, Bayamon, director of nursing. I spoke with her last week from Texas.
I will write about UMET today, because it is my first choice!
For UMET, Bayamon, I have all my required courses completed, except Spanish 101/102 and Social Science. I have a 3 unit Sociology course completed in Texas. The UMET admissions office told me that is "too low." So, that means I have to take at least 3 GE courses at UMET.
I also met a UMET graduating student from mid-west area. She told me to transfer all credits in advance, and get their approval before starting your classes! She warned me that the transfer evaluation department is notorious to *screw* students. In her case, the transfer evaluation lady will not accept a College Algebra credit for a basic Math 102! She is about to graduate and she needs another Math class to get her degree.
She warned me that all UMET GE classes are in Spanish. So, if you do not have good Spanish reading and writing skills your grades/GPA will suffer.
The UMET nursing director was super nice on the phone. But, she told me that they will *not* offer any summer classes from the core nursing curriculum. She said it is because of difficulty in getting English speaking professors. She also said that the school cannot guarantee that there would be at least two core nursing classes (5 units each) during the Fall or Spring semesters.
This confirms my earlier suspicion that UMET BSN program cannot be completed in two years after transferring your AS or BS in another health science area. (I have AS in General Health Science).
Another graduating BSN student from New York told me that it is very likely that UMET will discontinue their English BSN program.
Tomorrow, I will post more more about the U Inter program. I found that their GE requirements are weird, as they require no foundation classes!
Anyone completed the ASN or BSN program yet that took the NCLEX exam? I was wondering if anyone had a difficult time transferring credits or taking the NCLEX in California? I plan to do the ASN in Inter-American University in November. Thanks :-)
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