What is the average of a nursing student?

OKNurse2be · Jul 23, 2012

I honestly think that can vary from place to place, but if I were to guess purely based on what I personally am seeing, I would say average age of today's nursing student falls somewhere between 25 and 30 years old. I have no statistics backing that up, and it's a a shot in the dark guess. I don't think age really matters. I think it's great that nursing attracts people of all ages, from all different kinds of backgrounds.

OB-nurse2013, BSN, RN · Jul 23, 2012

I would say at my school its about 23 y.o.

alex1987 · Jul 24, 2012

At my school I would say the average is about 30 years old. I'm 24 though :)

OB-nurse2013, BSN, RN · Jul 24, 2012

At my school I would say the average is about 30 years old. I'm 24 though :)

Hahhaha we should switch I just turned 30 this year

ShineyNickelRN · Jul 24, 2012

Well, all I can say is we had orientation last week. And I felt OLD! LOL! I am 36. So, in my school alot of them are early to mid 20's.

kgl_2014 · Jul 24, 2012

I'm 36 too. We have a range from just out of high school to a few people in their mid 50s. I've noticed more people my age going back to school. :)

prettymica, ASN, BSN, MSN, LPN, RN, APRN, NP · Jul 24, 2012

My first time around the average age was about 26. Four years later, about 35.

Nurse Lynette, BSN, RN · Jul 24, 2012

We have a very non traditional class. There are 65 of us and all but maybe 15 are over 25. I'm 28 myself. Our youngest is 22 I believe.

Annie07 · Jul 24, 2012

I'm in my third year and the average age of my class is early 20's. There are around 5/30 women over the age of 40. This is in Australia :)

DisneyNurseGal, BSN, RN · Jul 24, 2012

I'm 38 and I am worried that I will be the oldest (of a class of 32) when I start school next month.

BloomNurseRN, ASN, BSN, RN · Jul 24, 2012

My class seems to have a great range of ages. We have a few 21-year-olds all the way up to a few in the 40's. I'm 32 and I'd say the average would be between 25 and 32.