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9 Northern Virginia Community College Reviews Browse Northern Virginia Community College Reviews by Job Title → On average, employees at Northern Virginia Community College give their company a 4.5 rating out of 5.0 - which is 17% higher than the average rating for all companies on CareerBliss. Schools with Associate Degree Programs in Nursing near Washington, DC Northern Virginia Community College. Northern Virginia Community College's Medical Education Campus is about 15 miles southwest of Washington, DC. The courses you'll take in the AAS program cover such topics as communication, pharmacology, management, and psychology.
I know this shit. OK, in Northern Virginia: NVCC nursing program is cheap and 2 years long (not including pre-req) but hard to get into due to too much competition. I wouldn't consider this though because you would be graduating with an associate's degree in nursing. All the hospitals in the area want to see BSN on the resume. So this leaves you with the private school options of Marymount, Shenandoah, Stratford, and Chamberlain, which are all expensive. Marymount and Shenandoah have been around for a long time while Stratford and Chamberlain are new. So I recommend the first two.
I've heard Shenandoah is a bit more lenient if you don't mind the drive there. Public school option: If you finished all your nursing pre-requisite for George Mason's nursing program and got A's in everything, they are still NOT going to accept you because of all the Mason students that are waiting to get into the program already. If you must go to Mason, just transfer there with your major being biology or something different, do the pre-requisite there, and then apply to the nursing program.
If you apply to nursing directly from NVCC, you're not gonna get accepted. I applied to George Mason and didn't get accepted but I will be graduating with a general studies degree from NVCC at the end of the semester. George Mason (GMU) and NVCC have a program to make it easier for NCC graduates to transfer into George Mason.
It is much easier to get into GMU that way then when you apply out of high school. I don't know whether you'd qualify for the 'guaranteed admission' program (already mentioned by laneyh), especially for the school of nursing, but the NVCC advising office can guide you through your options. Talk to them! I don't of any way to get an accelerated nursing degree; lab and clinical work doesn't lend itself to that kind of program. The state is very aware that they need to create more slots in nursing degrees in the state universities, but funding, blah blah. One option might be for you to get qualified as a CNA and work part-time while you take classes for an LPN and then the full nursing degree and an RN certification.
Again, talk to the NVCC advising office, they can give you the best information. Note: Because of my professional background, I know a lot about the Virginia higher education system, but I'm not a nurse or other sort of medical professional. I'm going to make a hugely stupid confession. When I was looking for schools, my primary goal was to find a school that offered ROTC. I was too old to get the scholarship but I discovered that many of the schools around DC are part of a consortium meaning I can take a class at one school and get credit at another. Thus, the big school around DC with ROTC was Georgetown. I'd heard of them, despite being from New England and upstate NY.
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I knew that they'd be stupid expensive. Then, there was George Mason. I'd heard of them, I wouldn't be able to afford them. I shit you not, I settled on Marymount because I'd never heard of them. It was months after I graduated that I discovered that I'd paid more for Marymount than it would have cost me to go to Georgetown. As far as jobs, I was recently released from the military and I was a computer programmer with a clearance (my degree was CS, not my job in the military). Landing a job was trivial.
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There is zero chance you will have the same experience after you receive your degree. I had a decade of extraordinary good luck that put me where I am today. Also, Marymount will require you to take a religion class. It is for this reason that it's so expensive. They take no federal funding because fed funds means no mandated religion class.
This may have changed since I graduated in 1998 but based on the price tag, I doubt it. However, here is how you get out of it. You go to your department chair and demand to be released from the requirement. Volunteer to take an additional logic or philosophy class in place of the religion class. If they fight you on it, tell them that you are offended because the religion class treats your own personal belief in Thor as a complete fiction and unless they are willing to teach the controversy, it's not fair to your religious freedom. It is now 2014 and I only have $38k in student loans remaining.