Graduates of the Katz School’s Accelerated B.S. in Nursing have achieved a 96% pass rate on the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN), outpacing the national average and reinforcing the program's standing as a destination for high-achieving students pursuing an accelerated path into professional practice.
What distinguishes the Katz School approach is how the program is engineered. The 16-month, 62-credit curriculum is built on the American Association of Colleges of Nursing's competency-based Essentials framework, which includes 10 domains, four spheres of care and eight foundational concepts mapped directly into every course objective.
Students move sequentially from foundational sciences and health assessment into medical-surgical, pediatric, maternity, psychiatric and community clinical rotations at top-tier New York hospitals. NCLEX-style clinical-judgment questions are embedded in coursework from the first semester, and structured test-readiness coaching runs alongside the final term rather than after it.
For Batya Ratner ’25, the design made the difference: “The pace is demanding, but the way the courses are sequenced means nothing feels disconnected,” she said. “The simulation labs are extraordinary. By the time I walked into a real ICU, I had already worked through similar scenarios dozens of times, and I carried that confidence straight into the exam.”
Andrew Kolos ’25 echoed that experience: “We were given opportunities that our nursing friends outside this program said they never got,” he said. “Every rotation, every simulation, every learning moment, even the ones that left us wondering if we were cut out for this, helped shape us into the nurses we're becoming. And for that, we are genuinely grateful to our school and faculty.”
The Accelerated B.S. in Nursing welcomes applicants who already hold a non-nursing bachelor's degree. For students with 62 undergraduate credits or an associate's degree but no bachelor's, the Katz School offers a Transfer B.S. in Nursing. Applications for the next cohort are open at yu.edu/nursing.
