Competitive nursing school forces students to consider community college - Danielle Legler, State Press

Recent budget cuts have forced ASU’s nursing school to cut enrollment numbers, an action that has made the school more competitive and has led some nursing students to consider community college. In 2008, U.S. News and World Report ranked ASU’s College of Nursing and Health Innovation in the top 8 percent in the nation for nursing graduate schools. However, due to University budget cuts in 2009, ASU was forced to cut many of its faculty members and in turn cut student enrollment in half, causing nursing students going into upper division classes to face heavy competition among their peers, according to the college’s website.