Bloomfield College’s nursing program ranked No. 4 in the state

BLOOMFIELD, NJ — Bloomfield College has been recognized among the 2021 rankings of the “Best Prelicensure Bachelor of Science in Nursing Programs in New Jersey” by Nursing School Almanac. Specifically, the Bloomfield College nursing program was ranked No. 4 in the state.

“Bloomfield College nursing graduates consistently place well in the NCLEX-RN exam with a 94-percent licensure exam pass rate,” said Ismat F. Mikky, chairperson and professor of nursing in the college’s Frances M. McLaughlin Division of Nursing. “The excellence of our well-prepared nursing candidates is recognized by numerous, prestigious nursing program ranking organizations, as well as by the health care employers where our graduates work.”

Nursing Schools Almanac, whose mission is to provide aspiring nurses a detailed, comprehensive and analytical resource for selecting their future nursing school, uses several years of data to calculate each school’s NCLEX-RN pass rate among first-time test takers, plus additional valued criteria, to develop its annual rankings of the best nursing schools in the country.  

Additionally, the college was named by U.S. News & World Report 2022 Best Colleges rankings as No. 7 in New Jersey in the publisher’s first-ever “undergraduate nursing programs” category. Registerednursing.org also recently ranked Bloomfield College as No. 9 out of 46 New Jersey higher education institutions in its ranking of the “Best Nursing Program in New Jersey,” as well as the No. 4 “Best RN to BSN Program” in the state.

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