Hello, so I’m a high school student who has been accepted to 3 bsn nursing colleges. My options are as follows: Stony Brook for $4,000, NYU for $20,000, and Emory University for $8,000. NYU and Emory are definitely better than Stony Brook so I’m trying to mainly decide between those two. I’m not sure which school I should go to because I’m born in New York and is definitely coming back to New York to work as a RN. Would it be better for me to stay in New York and go to NYU where I can intern in New York or will it be better for me to go to Atlanta, Georgia? I know Emory is better than NYU nationwise but I don’t know if Emory has the same prestige NYU has in New York. Is it better for me to stay in my city and make connections or go to Atlanta knowing that Emory is cheaper and technically better?
Also I might decide to become a nurse anesthesiologist after college and a couple years of work.
What are your opinions on all of this?
Please help! Thank you so much!
New York State RN NCLEX Results: 2013-2017
School…2017…2016…2015…2014…2013
NYU…85.4%/344/403…80.4%/299/372…85.0%/339/399…82.5%/326/395…83.1%/360/433
SUNY SB…97.4%/148/152…94.8%/145/153…92.2%/141/153…85.9%/122/142…79.0%/105/133
http://www.op.nysed.gov/prof/nurse/nurseprogs-nclexrn2013-17.htm
OP, you keep using the term “better”, but looking at the NCLEX pass rate, NYU is NOT “Better” than Stony Brook and is 5-times as expensive. NYU BSN is extremely large, with close to 400 students taking the NCLEX exam each year. I read somewhere that, given the large number of students, the have some degree of difficulty placing their students in clinicals (do you own research on this) and students are forced to use the SIM Lab to supplement their limited clinical exposure.
If you want to attend Nurse Anesthesia school in a few years, your biggest challenge will be getting Adult ICU experience upon graduation and that is not an easy feat these days. Very few hospitals hire new graduates into their ICU and frown upon students using their ICU as a stepping stone to becoming a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA - NOT nurse anesthesiologist). The training cost for new ICU nurses are huge and hospitals are focused on getting experienced ICU nurses to staff their ICUs. Ten years ago, my daughter was hired into an adult ICU right out of college and spend 6-months in the classroom (2-days in the classroom and 1-day in the ICU for “on the job training”). The entire first year was considered a training period. So your chances of getting into NA school in a couple of years is very slim, unless you get lucky and land a coveted ICU position right out of undergrad.
A family member of mine, went to SUNY Health Science Center Brooklyn, spent 1-year in a NICU upon graduation and was accepted into a hospital based CRNA program in NYC (Program no longer exist). Very few NA schools accept students with NICU experience btw. The nice thing about this program was that there was no tuition and the students received a bi-weekly stipend of about $600! She graduated from this program with very little student loan debt as a result (<$10K), while average debt for CRNA students is in the $120K range, with some students accumulating over $200K.
If I were in your position, I would go to Stony Brook (better NCLEX pass rate, much smaller program and lower cost option). NYU nor Emory BSN program will not offer any advantages over SUNY-Stony Brook, especially, if your long term goal is to become a CRNA. Did you get admitted directly into the nursing program at both Stony Brook and NYU?
Emory NCLEX Pass rate:
Program Name…Type…2014 …2015 …2016 …2017 …4-Year Avg
Emory University…BSN …77.27 119/154 …85.55 137/168 …91.38 159/174 …97.52 197/202 …87.93
@Rina1234 if you do not mind, could you please share your admission stats. Im really looking into NYU Rory Meyers School of Nursing. Hope you can help~