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do study at silliman!

luke, i would highly encourage that you study nursing at silliman. i'm a graduate of silliman university college of nursing and the program or curriculum of this college is world renowed. very high passing rate in the local board exams and you'll be very much prepared for the nclex exam. i myself passed the nclex with just one take.

there are a lot of silliman graduate nurses in the US right now and most have excelled in their profession and have pursued further education.

at the same time, the environment in dumaguete is very conducive for learning. forget manila or cebu, too big, congested, polluted and crime is rampant. dumaguete is a very quaint university town. i'm a dumaguete native as well and there's no place like it in the philippines. check it out and you'll love it there.

hope you'll make the right decision, good luck!

hotsypatutsy

 

To be honest the whole 5 year thing for nursing is a bit scary for me I will be 22 when I get out and I don't want to finish college when Im 27. I also have about a year and a half of college. Also my Medic training in the army also counts for college credits. When I go to check out Silliman here later on this year. I will be sure to bring all my transcripts from my former college as well as my Military training hopefully it will count for something in the Philippines. But to be honest Im more interested in business but it doesnt hurt to think about nursing too.

 

. QUOTE * I will be sure to bring all my transcripts from my former college as well as my Military training hopefully it will count for something in the Philippines.


My wife has two bachelors degrees in education. She decided to take up nursing. Silliman offered no Credit she would have to take everything again Including the real important stuff to emmigrate ( Tagalog, History of Rizal Etc.)

Dont get your hopes up on getting academic credits at sillyman
All in all The more classes you must take the more The tuition is

Wish you luck

 

It seems that in PI students rarely transfer schools. Their system is not set up to even issue an unofficial transcript and usually require a student to withdraw before issuing an official transcript. The US schools aren't much better. My daughter moved to the States a couple years ago with 3 years of nursing and 4 years total college. North West Arkansas Community College charged us for a translation of her transcript which was in English; I guess it was to translate from English to Arkansan. They wanted her to start all over again to pursue a 2 year degree in nursing. She is currently enrolled in Eastern Tennessee State. At least they didn't require a translation. They accepted 115 of her credits but only as electives. She is taking all the required core courses and restarting nursing. If she had finished her nursing prrogram in PI she woulld have been granted a BS nursing and been able to take the nclex board exam in the States.
If your planning to go to college plan on getting your bachelors where you started. Unless your degree is from Harvard, Yale, or a dozen other top schools in the States your degree is going to be considered second rate anyway. Your overseas education experience may be an asset some places in the age of globalization.
Kenny

 

I think your decision would depend on your primary reason for interest in going to school in the Phils. There are a lot of people who would love to live here but don't have available means to create an income. Going to school and living off the G.I. bill is a great scheme for taking care of that part. Living in the Philippines for four years would be a great time.

Here is another option. Education costs are continuing to explode. I believe the costs are going to force many more people towards online education and there are some great options appearing. You could live cheaply in the Phils and get an education from a great school online.

There are some schools out there that are very expensive and carry the stigma of a online degree, but there are a couple of other good schools which offer online degrees with no distinction between a degree gained from physical attendence or online attendence.

Some of the better options I have found...

UMassOnline - Accredited Online Degrees

University of Illinois Global Campus

Each of the above are extensions of their parent schools, and each school is well respected. The second link is the global campus of the University of Illinois and it just got started. They seem to offer mostly degree completion programs at the moment but I believe there are full degree programs on there.

Because these online schools are part of a parent university, you can also mix and match online classes with the more traditional classes. If you have been taking the online classes for a year and decide you are ready to go back to the U.S. and the online thing is not for you then you can go back to a real college campus and pick up where you left off. Or you could try doing a mixture of the two to see which you like better. If you want to get international school time in but you don't want to commit to a overseas degree, then set yourself up with a school in the U.S. and go to the Phils on a "study abroad" program (I believe these are usually just a semester or two where you take some basic classes abroad, mainly for the experience rather than credits.)

There are lots of options. I just couldn't see myself investing in a degree in the Phils. Nursing is a bit more straightforward because it leads into a set route which people must take to get qualified to be a nurse. Business is much more general and the beauty of your degree / experience lies in the eyes of the beholder. In my line of work, a degree is usually required to get a job doing what I'm currently doing. So I went freelance and now nobody asks me for a degree or a resume.

 

Concerning your choice of school and degree perhaps should depend on the industry it serves and its demand. Good friends of mine, a married couple, both went to Siliman. The wife took nursing, the husband business. The husband is not working in his academic field, in fact he is pursuing work in IT, the wife has been a nurse here several years and makes more money than the husband. While having a degree is a foot in the door, I believe it is the certification you need to obtain that really gets you the job. In the states most americans it seems do not want the responsibility and long hours that are part of the nursing field which is why that is the best way for a foreigner to get a great job in the states. Perhaps the reason we are seeing more male nurses in the US. Also more than the degree it is the Certification at the end that gets you the job. Accountants and managers we have a ton of and a US degree would be a better door opener than an overseas one in that field.

Online degrees are getting better also I have one more to add to your list to check out. American Military University Accredited Online University - American Military University (AMU) - Online Military Distance Learning Degree Programs, Military Studies, Intelligence Degree they specialize in online degrees for active and former military members as the degrees are more tuned to the things which are part of military training and job codes. Good luck on your search.

 

The degree I got from philippines does not count of the work I have now (abroad).All this unecessary subjects (tagalog, history about lapu lapu 1,2 etc..even repetation from elementary--- is a waste of money and time, my parents invested big money of that).If I have to choose now, I will not study there.

 

Degree programs

University degree programs are not always recognized by the U.S. as equal. Even though students who attend universities in other countries do not automatically have the equivalency of a U.S. Bachelor Degree, they may be awarded the U.S. equivalency of their degree in some cases.

But at any rate welcome to the forum it is an excellent place to get information.

 

My wife did a commerce degree in Bacolod before we married. She found it absolutely useless here in Australia. No one gave it any serious consideration. Not sure how a Silliman degree would be treated, but down here I think it would likely rate about the same - except perhaps nursing. She got a couple units credit to do an aged care management degree here at one of the local universities....worked in aged care for several years managing a facility for the Catholic church...and followed that up with a nursing degree she just finished. Now working at one of the local hospitals. My opinion is don't waste time on a business degree in Dumaguete. Nursing or medical school would be a far better choice. We do have a lot of foreign students down here by the way..many thousands....a lot cheaper than the U.S., with the same - or better quality - in a safe friendly environment. And our degrees are recognized all over the planet. Last I heard, virtually every university here is VA approved.

 

Hi guys...kenneth here....been a lurker here for quite sometime now...now finally decided to join in the discussions...good day everyone...