I-Credential
Licensed practical nurse licence (LPN/LVN)
The shortest licensed route into nursing: about a year of training and a national exam, for work that pays roughly two-thirds of what a registered nurse earns.
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Iinyanga zoqeqesho, ixesha elipheleleyo. Ixesha elipheleleyo lithatha ixesha elide.
Iinyanga zemali efunekayo ukuhlawula iindleko. Ayikukuba yiinyanga de ube uphambili ngokupheleleyo – ixesha loqeqesho oluphezulu livela kuqala.
Icebo: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 · Imboniselo
Iinkqubo ezixhaswa yi-Agency for the
Read this figure with one caveat: the federal programme code it comes from, CIP 51.39, covers practical and vocational nursing together with nursing-assistant training, and at certificate level the two cannot be separated. That range is median cumulative FEDERAL LOAN DEBT at completion, not a tuition sticker price and not total cost. It is what completers actually borrowed, so it excludes grants, savings, family money, employer funding and living costs — which makes it a FLOOR on what the credential costs, never a ceiling. The low and high figures are the 25th and 75th percentiles across the institutions that report a figure for this programme, so a quarter of institutions sit below the low end. College Scorecard pools two award years into each figure; the release used here is dated 10 June 2026.
About a year full time at most schools, longer part time. The exam at the end is the NCLEX-PN.
Renewal is every one to two years depending on the state.
Iinkqubo zolawulo lweendawo ezikhuselekileyo
Iinkampani ezili-100 eziphezulu
53,362 people who passed the NCLEX-PN licensing exam — 2025, calendar year 2025.
Siza kuqhubeka nokwenza oku. Le yinkqubo yonyaka yokuhamba- abantu abafumana igunya lokusebenza kunyaka omnye. Iinkcukacha zomsebenzi ziimali ezihlala zikhona, bonke abasebenza kwimisebenzi ngexesha elinye. Ukwahlula ukuhamba- kumanani ahlala ekhona kwenza ukuba kubekho inani elifunda njengexabiso lokuqesha kwaye aliyiyo enye. Xa sigcina ubalo oluhlala phantsi lwabaphathi begunya lokusebenza sipapasha inxalenye esebenza; apha asinayo, ngoko ke sipapasha ukuhamba- sihlala.
Izinto eziquka: Everyone who passed the NCLEX-PN during 2025 — first-time and repeat, US-educated and internationally educated. 68,996 sat it and 53,362 passed, a 77.3% pass rate. It is a count of exam passes in one year, not of people holding a practical-nurse licence today.
NCSBN, 2025 NCLEX Examination Statistics, Research Brief vol. 96 (June 2026), Table 12 (People newly credentialed during one year) · Imboniselo
Iinkqubo zoqeqesho ezinikezelwa yi-IOM ziquka
Iminyaka emihlanu emva kokuphela — ixabiso lekhowudi yenkqubo, hayi le misebenzi kuphela
I-O 47,882 abagqibezela Practical nursing and nursing assistant training, undergraduate certificate or diploma minyaka mihlanu emva koko, 2,047 i-100% 4.3%. abasebenzayo bafumana i-10% yemali $56,073, 100% $37,200 kunye $76,301.
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Le mifanekiso ayichazi kakuhle le misebenzi. IGosa lezoBugcisa lipapasha iziphumo zenkqubo ngeenombolo ezine ezithe nkqo, kwaye le nkqubo yobungqina ibelana ngekhowudi yayo nabanye. Ngoko ke, lo mfanekiso uchaza bonke abagqibezela nantoni na phantsi kwekhowudi kulo mgangatho, hayi kuphela abantu abaqhubekeke ukwenza le misebenzi.
Iinkqubo ezixhasayo: CIP 51.39 puts practical and vocational nursing — the LPN/LVN route — in the same code as nursing-assistant and orderly training, and at certificate level the two cannot be separated. Those are very different qualifications: one is a licensed clinical role reached after about a year, the other is a few weeks of training for work that pays far less. This figure is both of them together, and the mix is not published, so it may not be read as the LPN figure.
The same code that blocks a clean cost figure blocks a clean outcome figure: practical nursing and nursing-assistant training share it, and the mix is not published. Read the rate as covering both.
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Icebo: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 — release of 10 June 2026; measured four years after completion · Imboniselo · i-100% yemali efunekayo
Izinto ezikuvumela ukuba uzenza
Imali ixhomekeke kwimisebenzi, ayixhomekeki kwidiploma. Ezi zimisebenzi eyenza ukuba uphumelele.
| Imisebenzi | Ingaba ifuneka? | Median | I-Ofisi |
|---|---|---|---|
| Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses | Legally required to hold the job | $64,400 | 648,410 |
Imali ephakathi yomsebenzi nomsebenzi: I-BLS, Umsebenzi osebenzayo kunye neNkqubo yoLwazi lweMivuzo, ngoMeyi 2025.
Ingaba ihlawulisa ngokwayo?
Umsebenzi ovulwa yinkqubo $64,400. I-median ethe tyaba yomsebenzi kwimisebenzi yonke esipapashayo $50,020, i-100% $14,380 kwiminyaka emibini
Funda oku njengenxulumano nemisebenzi eqhelekileyo, hayi nemisebenzi yakho. Iinkqubo ezixhasayo
Ikholelwa ekubeni ufumana umsebenzi. Yonke imifanekiso yokubuyisa imali kule ndawo ixhomekeke ekubeni iqeshwe kwimisebenzi. Lo ngumbono othi ubalo lomsebenzisi ogunyazisiweyo ophezulu lukhona uvavanyo, kwaye lumbono othi onke amanye amawebhusayithi ohlawula awenza ngokucothayo.
Izinto ofuna ukukhetha
- A place on a state-approved practical nursing programme
Musa ukwenza oku ukuba
- you want to be a registered nurse eventually — bridging costs more in total than going straight to an associate degree
- you cannot pass a criminal background check
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