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Registered nurse licence (RN)
The licence you cannot work as a registered nurse without. Two routes lead to the same exam and the same licence — a two-year associate degree or a four-year bachelor's — and they cost very different amounts.
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Watau, watanni na koyar da kai, a lokaci mai zurfi, kuma a lokaci mai zurfi, yana da tsawo.
Months of the pay premium needed to cover that cost. Not months until you are ahead overall - the training time above comes first.
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The low end is the 25th percentile across institutions offering the two-year associate route; the high end is the 75th percentile across institutions offering the four-year bachelor's. 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.
Two years full time for the associate route, four for the bachelor's. Both end at the same NCLEX-RN exam and the same licence, and employers increasingly prefer the bachelor's — which is the reason the cheaper route is not automatically the better one.
The licence renews every one to three years depending on the state, with continuing-education requirements attached.
Da yawa mutane da ke da wannan, da kuma da yawa suna aiki a cikin filin
Da yawa suna samun wannan a kowace shekara
226,946 people who passed the NCLEX-RN licensing exam for US licensure — 2025, calendar year 2025.
Ba mu mayar da shi ga wani kashi. Wannan shi ne a shekara-shekara gudu - mutane waɗanda suka samu da shaida a cikin shekara daya. Aikin lissafi ne a tsaye stock, kowa aiki a cikin aikin a lokaci guda. Rarraba da gudu a cikin wani ajiya samar da wani adadi da yake karanta kamar yadda a ba da albashi da kuma ba daya. A inda muka rike da a tsaye adadin da masu rike da shaida mu buga da rabon aiki; a nan ba mu da daya, don haka mu buga da gudu da kuma tsaya.
QDialogButtonBox: Everyone who passed the NCLEX-RN for US licensure during 2025 — first-time and repeat, US-educated and internationally educated. 328,443 people sat it and 226,946 passed, a 69.1% pass rate. A candidate can pass only once, so this is close to a count of nurses becoming licensable in that year. It excludes candidates sitting the exam for Canadian registration, whom NCSBN reports separately, and it is not a count of anyone holding a licence today.
NCSBN also publishes a count of active RN LICENCES — 6,062,790 as at 24 July 2026 — and we deliberately do not use it. That is licences, not nurses: a nurse holding single-state licences in four states appears four times, and NCSBN publishes no de-duplicated figure. Dividing employment into it would produce a share of about 56% that understates how many licensed nurses are working, so we publish the exam flow instead and no percentage at all.
NCSBN, 2025 NCLEX Examination Statistics, Research Brief vol. 96 (June 2026), Table 1 (People newly credentialed during one year) · QPrintPreviewDialog
Me ya faru da mutane da suka kammala horo
Shekaru huɗu bayan kammala, daga federal records
Dakata 177,214 Waɗanda suka yi ĩmãni, kuma suka aikata ayyukan ƙwarai. Registered nursing, bachelor's degree Kuma ba su ci gaba da karatu ba har tsawon shekaru huɗu bayan haka, 4,421 — 2.5%. Kuma waɗanda suka aikata sunã da rabo babba daga abin da suka aikata. $88,910, da rabin tsakiyar tsakanin $67,853 da $114,470.
"Ba da wani sakamako a kan record" ba ne "ba da aikin yi". Wannan adadin ya nuna cewa babu wani adadin albashi da kuma wani adadin kudin shiga na aiki na kanka a cikin shekara. Ba a tambayi kowa ko yana so ya yi aiki, don haka adadin ya kunshi mutane da suka bar aikinsu bisa zaɓinsu - suna girman yara, suna kula da su, suna tafiya, suna rayuwa a kan kudin shiga na wani, suna tafiya waje - tare da duk wanda ya so ya yi aiki kuma bai yi ba. Ba a wallafa wannan rabon ba kuma ba za mu yi zaton shi ba. Abin da ya bayyana shi ne yawan mutanen da suka kammala wannan horo kuma ba su samu komai daga shi ko daga wani abu ba a cikin shekaru huɗu, wanda shi ne abin da adadin albashi na sama ba zai iya gaya maka ba.
Abin da wannan lissafin shirin ya ƙunsa: CIP 51.38 is registered nursing, together with nursing administration, nursing research and clinical nursing specialisms. At associate and bachelor's level it is almost entirely pre-licensure programmes leading to the NCLEX-RN, so the figure can fairly be read as being about becoming a registered nurse. At master's level and above it also carries nurse practitioners, nurse anaesthetists, nurse midwives, nurse educators and nursing administrators, which are different jobs with different pay.
This is the four-year bachelor's route. The two-year associate route is a separate federal row and comes out at 3.0% not working, against 2.5% here — the cheaper route does slightly worse on this measure, and both are among the best outcomes published.
Wanda ya kasance daga ƙungiyõyin kãfirai, completers da suka samu federal dalibi taimako - kusan rabin na Amurka dalibai, da kuma sauran rabin bauna a nan. Mutanen da suka tafi zuwa ƙarin karatu ne a cikin ko dai zurfin. Ma’aikatar ya hana makarantu da cohorts da yawa ƙarami don buga da kuma ƙara statistical cece-kuce ga sauran, don haka wannan shi ne wani adadin a kan makarantu girma da yawa don rahoto: 825 Kuma daga cikinsu, akwai wanda yake mai nẽman ãgaji. 97.1% da kuma samar da wani tsari na gudanar da wannan shirin. @ action 0.0 @ action
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Abin da yake ba ka damar yi
Kuma lalle ne, haƙĩƙa, Allah Ya saukar da Littãfi, kuma Ya saukar da Manzo, kuma Ya saukar da Alƙur'ãni, kuma Ya saukar da Littãfi, kuma Ya saukar da Manzo, kuma Ya saukar da Alƙur'ãni.
| QDialogButtonBox | Shin, ana buƙata ne? | Median | QDialogButtonBox |
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| Registered Nurses | Legally required to hold the job | $97,550 | 3,379,720 |
| Nurse Practitioners Requires an active RN licence plus a master's or doctorate. |
A step towards it, not sufficient on its own | $132,300 | 323,040 |
| Nurse Anesthetists Requires an active RN licence, critical-care experience and a doctorate. |
A step towards it, not sufficient on its own | $236,590 | 51,840 |
| Nurse Midwives Requires an active RN licence plus a graduate midwifery programme. |
A step towards it, not sufficient on its own | $134,040 | 7,920 |
Median kudin da aiki: BLS Occupational Employment da kuma kudin aiki Statistics, May 2025.
Shin, yana biya ga kansa?
The job this unlocks pays a median of $97,550. The aiki-weighted matsakaici a kan kowane sana'a mu buga ne $50,020, Sabõda haka, da kyautar ga riƙe wannan ne game da $47,530 A shekara guda a gabãnin taƙawa.
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Abin da kake buƙata kafin ka fara
- A place on an accredited nursing programme
- A criminal background check — every state board runs one
Kada ka yi wannan idan
- you cannot pass a criminal background check, which every board requires
- you are not prepared to work nights, weekends and holidays for years
- you cannot physically lift, turn and move adult patients
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