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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.
Ihe ọ na-efu iji nweta - n'etiti nke n'etiti nke n'etiti.
Ụbọchị nke nkụzi, oge zuru ezu. Oge akụkụ na-ewe ogologo oge.
Ụbọchị nke ụgwọ n'ime ọnwa chọrọ ka kpuchie na ụgwọ. Ọ bụghị ọnwa ruo mgbe ị na-aga n'ihu n'ozuzu - oge nkuzi n'elu na-abịa mbụ.
Òtù: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 · ngosi
Gịnị bụ ego nke ọnụọgụgụ ahụ, nakwa ihe ọ bụghị
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.
Olee ndị mmadụ na-echekwa nke a, na olee ndị na-arụ ọrụ na mpaghara ebe ahụ
Olee ndị na-enweta nke a n'afọ ọ bụla
226,946 people who passed the NCLEX-RN licensing exam for US licensure — 2025, calendar year 2025.
Anyị anaghị agbanwe ya n'ime pasent. Nke a bụ a afọ n'okporo ụzọ - ndị mmadụ na-enweta na credential na otu afọ. Ọrụ figures bụ a na-aga stock, onye ọ bụla na-arụ ọrụ na ọrụ na otu oge. N'ịga n'okporo ụzọ na a stock na-emepụta a nọmba na-agụ dị ka a na-enye ọrụ ọnụego na bụ ọ bụghị otu. Ebe anyị na-echekwa na-aga n'okporo ụzọ ọnụọgụgụ nke credential ndị na-echekwa anyị na-ebipụta na-arụ ọrụ share; ebe a anyị enweghị otu, ya mere anyị na-ebipụta n'okporo ụzọ na-akwụsị.
Ihe nke nke ahụ na-agụnye: 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) · ngosi
Gịnị ka e mere ndị mmadụ nke gwụchara nkuzi ahụ
afọ iri na anọ mgbe e mechara, site na ndekọ federal
_Nkebi 177,214 ndị ahụ mechara Registered nursing, bachelor's degree na-amụghị ihe ruo afọ anọ mgbe ahụ, 4,421 enweghị ego ọbụla n'ime ndekọ ahụ — 2.5%. Ndị na-arụ ọrụ na-enweta n'etiti nke $88,910, na n'etiti n'etiti $67,853 na $114,470.
"Ọ dịghị ego na-echekwa" abụghị "enweghị ọrụ". N'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'ihi na ọ bụ n'
Ihe nke usoroiheomume ahụ na-ekpuchi: 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.
Onye bụ n'ime cohort: completers nke natara federal ụmụ akwụkwọ enyemaka - na-erughị n'elu nke US undergraduates, na ọzọ n'elu na-adịghị achọpụtara ebe a. Ndị mmadụ na-aga na-aga n'ihu ọmụmụ bụ na ọ bụla n'ime elu. The Department suppresses ụlọ ọrụ na cohorts obere n'ihi na-ebipụta na-agbakwunye statistical ụda na-agwụcha, ya mere nke a bụ a sum n'elu ụlọ ọrụ dị ukwuu nke ukwuu iji kọwaa: 825 nke ha, na-agbake 97.1% na-eweta n’ime ụlọ ọrụ ahụ. Ihupụta program ndị dị obere na-eziga ozi na-akpụga ọnụọgụgụ site na 0.0 %d%%
Òtù: US Department of Education, College Scorecard, Field of Study data, 2026 — release of 10 June 2026; measured four years after completion · ngosi · akara nke otu maka program ọbụla anyị nwere ike ịdebata
Ihe ọ na-enye gị ohere ime
Nkwụ ụgwọ bụ nke ọrụ, ọ bụghị nke ikike. Ha bụ ọrụ ọ na-eweta gị maka.
| Ọrụ | Ọkachasị? | Median | Ejirila |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Nkwụ ụgwọ na ọrụ: BLS Occupational Employment na Wage Statistics, Mee 2025.
Ọ na-akwụ ụgwọ maka onwe ya?
Ọrụ a na-emechi ọnụ ụzọ ahụ na-akwụ median nke $97,550. Ọrụ-n'ozuzu-n'ozuzu n'ime ọrụ ọ bụla anyị na-ebipụta bụ $50,020, ka ọbụna n'ihi na ọ bụ ihe dị ka $47,530 afọ tupu tax.
Gụọ nke ahụ dịka ngbanwe n'ihe dị n'ime ọrụ, ọ bụghị n'ihe dị n'ime ọrụ gị. Gịnị bụ baseline ahụ, nakwa ihe ọ na-ewepụ
Na ọ na-atụ anya na ị ga-enweta ọrụ ahụ. N'ụdị ọbụla nke nkwụghachi azụ na saịtị a bụ n'ihi na a na-ewere ya n'ọrụ. Ọ bụ n'ihi na a na-atụ anya na ndepụta nke onye na-echekwa n'elu nwere ike ịtụle, na ọ bụ n'ihi na a na-atụ anya na ọbụla ọzọ nkwụghachi saịtị na-eme ya n'ụzọ dị n'enweghị isi.
Ihe ịchọrọ tupú ịmalite
- A place on an accredited nursing programme
- A criminal background check — every state board runs one
Enweghị ike ime nke a ma ọ bụrụ na
- 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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