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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]RN here.

Cheapest school possible. It does not matter.

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Cheaper would be community college.  But why bother with CC when a vocational nursing school is even cheaper?  No distribution requirement to boot - no history, literature, philosophy in vocational schools.  You just might find that the lower you go, the quality of people attending those schools are lower as well.  [/quote]

I received a diploma in nursing (linked directly to a hospital) and my associates in a CC together in 2.5yrs. Starting working immediately after passing the boards. My hospital paid for my BSN a year later for a 2yr commitment. Left after 4 years and worked for a travel nurse company and that company paid for my Nursing informatics master so I could run their east coast office. I make over $200K a year. I spent less than 10K on schooling.

So yes, cheapest possible.

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Well, I think it all depends on what you feel is the purpose of college. If the sole purpose of it is to get the credential as fast as possible so you can start working, then the “cheapest as possible” route would be fine. For our family, yes college is an important step in workforce preparation but it’s also sooo much more than that. For us, college is also about becoming well-rounded and honing skills in areas even if they don’t necessarily related to your career path, expanding your mind, being surrounded by people who are smarter than you, etc. And I want my kids to get the whole college experience thing. Even if my kids were planning to enter a field where school prestige doesn’t matter (eg nursing), I’d still strongly  encourage them to seek out deeply rigorous and challenging environments where they can grow intellectually, socially, and personally. Going for the fastest and cheapest route possible because “well, we all end up in the same place anyway!” - that’s really not the kind of thing we’d encourage in our kids.[/quote]
Clearly you've never been to nursing school! Outside of prereqs and nursing classes, my BSN program included very little room to take any electives. In fact, we could take exactly 2 over the course of 4 years. There's no room to take art history or any other courses related to my pre-nursing and nursing majors. I agree that things may have changed, but freshman and sophomore years were filled with non-negotiable courses needed for the school of nursing. Once you got to nursing school, it was a 100% dictated curriculum. The only input the student had was around a couple of nursing electives but there's very little room for exploration of interests outside of getting in and getting out of nursing school. Seriously, if you want your kids to meander, explore, and become well-rounded, I applaud you but that's not going to happen if you go into a vocational major like nursing, engineering, etc. Liberal arts is your friend... I know because I'm shelling out 60K a year so DS can have exactly the experience you describe above because to be honest, I kinda feel like I missed that. OTOH, I did my BSN, MSN and PhD in Nursing, I love it and I make a ton of money so I guess the bright side is I can easily afford to give my kids the liberal arts route.
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