Prestigious nursing programs?

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Anonymous wrote:Also, 80% of Penn nursing receives significant financial aid.

Penn financial aid is exceedingly good. Check its price calculator. It might be cheaper for you than a place like GMU.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A couple of other threads suggest there's basically no point to prestigious BSN programs like Penn and Georgetown. On the other hand, I've heard of starting salaries around $125,000 for Penn nursing grads.

What's the real deal? Who are these programs for? Are they worth it? Under what circumstances?

I hire nurses as part of my job. You can't find any nurse nowadays who will be willing to work for less than $50/ hour, which equates to about $110,000 a year. Going to a school like Penn doesn't add much on top of that. If it does, it might just be for the first year or 2 after graduation when where you went to college matters most. After that, the salaries pretty much become the same, regardless of where the nurse graduated from.