What school to go to for nursing?!?

Charliesch
Fri, 19 Sep 2014 11:54:41 +0000

From what you have described, I would suggest looking for mid-priced private colleges with direct entry nursing programs that are near at least one major hospital and that offer substantial merit aid. I’d start with the list of direct entry programs on this website. Some colleges describe automatic merit aid on their websites.

You also would need to find a place with affordable airfare. You could test out the prices of flights to a few metro areas during the times of the year when you would want to go home (such as Christmas). Some airports have little competition and have expensive flights, while others are served by discount airlines. I imagine few have direct flights from Alaska. You might also be able to do part of the trip by rail.

There also are some US public universities that are still affordable for out of state students, such as in North Dakota and I believe Utah. You can look at the financial aid part of CC to see suggestions.

There are also some public universities that offer merit aid to top students. Most public universities offer little need-based aid for out of state students, unless you a top African-American student.

There are two public universities that meet full financial need for all out of state US students - UVa and UNC-CH. However, they are both extremely competitive for admissions. UVa has a great direct entry program and UNC-CH is not direct entry.

There are some expensive highly competitive programs that offer excellent need-based aid, such as U. Penn.

I know nothing about nursing programs at Canadian universities. You could check to see how hard it is to take the US RN exam with a Canadian degree. Canadian universities used to be very affordable for US students, but the popular ones in eastern Canada have raised their prices. There might be some good reasonably priced ones in western Canada.