Palm Beach State College

This program was excessively labor intensive. They have a choice to graduate in 3 semesters, taking 4 courses per semester. This sounds great, however, it is impossible to achieve if you are a working professional. Most students seem to take no more than 2 courses per semester, making the RN-BSN program length 2 full years. The coursework is broken into 4 main units, 4 weeks per unit. Each unit has 4 discussion posts (APA initial post with peer-reviewed article citations + 2 peer-reviewed cited response... Read More posts, and at least 4 assignments (which are APA papers or PowerPoints) many of the courses also have additional weekly coursework due (Case Studies or VSIMS or an additional discussion post, paper, concept map or PowerPoint). Each unit also includes an exam that is taken with WebCam and lockdown browser. They cram so much coursework into the program that it is more than likely that they will be asking you to submit two unit sections, sometimes even three or four into one week's timeframe. Yes, that is up to one full month's worth of work due in one week's time! This all while you are also working full-time as a professional nurse. The professors do have much to offer and can be understanding, however it is a torturous program.