Alot of people I’ve spoken to coming out of nursing school lately have been from community college to 4yr university bridge programs where they earn their AAS in Nursing along with their BSN upon graduation. I’ve heard good things about these programs, smaller classes, much cheaper, same curriculum & a lot less stress because they aren’t considered “traditional” students in the standard university nursing cohorts, it’s tailored to working people & older students. But it’s seemed to have caught on in some states especially on the west coast, to the point that students who would have otherwise went directly to a 4yr university are choosing the bridge program instead & now they have waitlist 2 yrs long because of it where I’m at. I wish they had programs like this when I went through nursing school because I’d have surely done it over going straight into a university & considering we’re all going in the same direction, nobody cares what school you went to in the workplace, I learned early that a Duke, or Stanford graduate makes the same amount as any state school grad lol! But like I said I’d highly recommend the community college bridge route, the instructors are more likely to help struggling students, & try to figure out the problem over hard failing & stomping them out, making them feel like they are nothing. This is a problem I have with every major in college, how professors don’t do enough to mentor students despite some making almost 200k a year.