Adult Nursing PgDip/MSc at LSBU (2 years) or BSc at King's (3 years) - advice !
Appreciate there are a lot of "this uni vs that uni" posts so sorry to add another! I'm going back to uni as a mature student (31F) to study Adult Nursing in September and I'm struggling to decide between:
- BSc at Kings College London (3 years)
- PgDip/MSc at London South Bank University (2 years)
Kings is ranked no1 in the world for nursing. Personally I don't care too much about rankings and I know it wouldn't be perfect but it just reassures me that the teaching and placements will be high quality. Kings do offer a 2 year MSc programme, but I unfortunately don't meet the 900 hour healthcare experience requirement (I did work as a care worker in my early 20s but that was over 5 years ago so it doesn't count), otherwise I would definitely go for that
Financially it's going to be a stretch either way, but of course the PgDip is more appealing in that sense - I'd be a year closer to earning a full-time income again and would come out with less debt etc. My main hesitation is that LSBU isn't rated as highly overall (though it's not too bad for nursing - 16th in the Guardian) so I'm not so confident on what my experience will be like as a nursing student
From everything I've read, where you trained doesn't really matter for nursing jobs - it would maybe only make a difference if I wanted to go into academia, which I don't anyway
Would love to hear people's thoughts - especially from anyone who's studied nursing at South Bank. What's the quality of teaching and the overall experience like?
Thanks in advance!