College
 

Never having gone to college, or even thought about it I know nothing about how degrees work, and th progressive stages. Any info?
I've been thinking about going to nursing school at UT here in Austin and I'm not sure if to be a nurse you have to actually go to college and do that whole thing or if you just go to nursing school. Searchs are coming up blank. Any idea?
Ty

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well i found a nurse forum, ha, and it seems you do have to go to college and get a bachelors(?) before you can do the stuff to become a registered nurse. hmmmmm college..... :confused:

Yeah, you have to go the basic 4 years. College doesn't seem that bad anyway. It's a once in a lifetime experience; just imagine all the booze, chicks, and parties. GL AND HF!

A bachelors degree is your basic degree.

I guess that for nursing you'll need to do a Bachelors Science - you need to do mostly science related subjects.

They are also called the 4 year degrees and are needed for most things.

Above a bachelors is a Masters degree and above that the PhD.

I don't think nurses go for a PhD, since that would make them a doctorate. I don't know if they go for a Science degree, or something more specific either though. There are 2 and 1 year nursing schools, but it is recommended that you go to a 4 year first, then take a 1 year for a different type of learning experience.

Geez, is there anything in life that doesn't require a grotesque amount of waiting? I'm starting 4 year college soon for Software Engineering, and no doubt I could learn the exact same job-specific shit I would at a vocational school for a year. Of course, somehow knowing a bunch more shit you don't care about makes you a better person.

God I hate people.

It's so true. I went to school for 5 years, received my Bachelors and Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering, and the job I have now is something my brother has been doing for 7 years, and he only went to college for 1 year before failing out. Ironic, huh?

The only thing I'm not looking forward to in college is having to pay for it. The way I look at it, it's high school with more freedom, closer living quarters, more parties, but a little more studying. I can't wait, but it'll take an arm and a leg to pay for.

College = heaven on earth. more booze, girls, and drugs than you can shake a stick at. Personally I stuck to the girls and booze, but to each his own.

Hopefully, by the time I get to Uni (is your college the equivalent of our University??) I should be get a grant - many universities are closing their Chemistry departments and in a few years there's gonna be a shortage of chemists...and I want to do Chemistry at Uni...government grant...oh yeah...:D

Lenny = England h4x

Universitys here are like better colleges. You've got your community colleges, your colleges, and you universitys.

I've always thought our colleges are only two year dealies...

I don't know...

How's your search coming along??

The majority of degrees are 4-year degrees.

You can get a 2-year degree and be a nurse, but a lot of people get 4-year degrees (because....?) anyhow. UT has a really good nursing program. If you can't get into it (it's pretty competitive), there's UTA in Arlington that has a really good program and is cheaper (~$2000-2500/semester).

Actually it donned on me earlier that I could just go to the Austin Community College. Cause I know I don't have a chance w/ UT.

Colleges and Universities are basically the same thing. When a "college" has a certain amount of students enrolled (like a population) it becomes a "university". Simply, the only difference is that universities are larger colleges.

All colleges and universities are the same type of ciriculum, and have the same time frame. Associates degree is usually 2 years. Bachelors is usually 4 years, and Masters is another 2 years. Those are the normals, however depending on how many credits you transfer from high school, and you course load each term, it can be faster, or longer.

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I thought my school was cheap, I am paying around 16000 a year, and it seen to be keep rising.

Snorting hydrocodone is fun.

Don't you even get halls of residence??


Good grief...you poor guys!!

Yes, underprivileged people are funny!

$16,000?? yeesh. Mine's at $40,000+

College is going to burn a huge hole in my pocket (parents too).

omg....

I'm paying €1475 a year, books and equipment not included (probably somewhere around €400)... There are some private schools that are €20000+ a year but I went to check them out and the quality of those schools isnt all that better than normal colleges.

Who are you paying $40,000?

I'll be paying around the same thing...maybe...something in the region of £2000-£4000 I think...

How come these guys are all paying so much??!!

Drexel's like $33,000/year. It's in Philadelphia.

Fairfield U. in CT.

Inflations fucking sucks. I just hope I can get a decent scholarship somewhere.

Hmm, a teacher told me back in the day that the difference between universities and colleges is that universities have professors (and doctors?) who execute research in various subjects, and that there is no other diffence.

How do you manage to pay for college/university in the US, if you don't have a scholarship and/or a good economy to rely on to start with. Loans? What kind of loans?

In Europe (except for Scandinavia, where colleges and universities offer full tuition free of chage), it seems to be harder to get a $100,000 loan (for a 4-5 year period) for education, than a house loan at $400,000. I don't see how a house could be so much more important than an education, that the government and companies will easily sponsor you with 4 times more money than for getting a decent education.

A house loan has little risk. If you don't pay, they reposesss the house and sell it to cover their losses.

We have scholarships, grants, student loans, and certain types of school sponsored funding like work study courses.
The amount of money a grant gives you depends on your familys income and what the government deems they can afford to pay for your college. A grant won't take up all of the slack though. If you don't have a sholarship, your usually looking at a student or parent loan.
Student loan: For Dependent Undergraduate Students: Year 1 - $2,625 Year 2 - $3,500 Years 3, 4 and 5 - $5,500

For Independent Undergraduate Students: Year 1 - $6,625 Year 2 - $7,500 Years 3, 4 and 5 - $10,500

So you can see even then, depending on your choice of school. You could still be hurting. Although most students have jobs.

True WW, my stepmom had students loans and she hasn't paid off any of them.

Over here we can get student loans, and only have to start paying if our wage gets above something like £21,000 a year. If it doesn't after 20/30 odd years, then we don't have to pay them any more.

Parents :D

God bless em!

Yeah, and then when you squirt out a little fucker you pay for them too!! It's a cycle of fun for everyone!!

Imagine having 3 daughters and no sons...then you're fucked.

Pay for this, pay for that, daddy I want those shoes, and those, and those, heck why not I'll have all of that shelf as well.

Daddy, I'm engaged...the 3 words all fathers hate to hear from their daughters lips...:p

I've got 2 sisters, and they are bad as if not 4. Spoiled as HELL!

That's so gay. I'm glad that I have 2 brothers. Girls have way too much shit. They need 20+ pairs of shoes, at least a thousand shirts and skirts, and endless amounts of other stuff. I wonder how much money was not spent for a guy as opposed to a girl.

I've got one sister...and she gets everything whereas I get rarely anything, though when I do get things I get expensive things and she just gets clothes...she pays £50 for about 2 square yards of material for a skirt...it's crazy...at least things like my guitar are worth the £200 odd that I pay for them...

I'm going to Ohio State this fall and I think it's only going to cost me around 11000 for everything. I'm not sure I remember the exact total though so that is just an estimate.