{"id":825,"date":"2024-10-01T14:42:06","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T14:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ocean.edu\/?page_id=825"},"modified":"2025-06-26T16:20:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T20:20:15","slug":"school-of-nursing-nclex-rn-results-and-program-completion-rate","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ocean.edu\/programs-courses\/school-of-nursing-and-health-sciences\/school-of-nursing-nclex-rn-results-and-program-completion-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"School of Nursing NCLEX-RN\u00ae Results and Program Completion Rate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading alignwide\" style=\"padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">Completion of the National Licensure Examination (NCLEX\u00ae)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alignwide has-text-align-wide is-style-intro\">Graduates of Ocean County College (OCC) School of Nursing are required to pass the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nclex.com\/index.htm\">National Council Licensure Exam (NCLEX-RN\u00ae)<\/a>&nbsp;to practice as a Registered Nurse. OCC School of Nursing prepares graduates to take this examination upon completion of the program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column pattern-icon__item is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>To maintain accreditation, OCC\u2019s NCLEX score for graduates taking the examination for the first time are required to be above 80%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2025 scores for the time period between January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025 were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>86.1% \u2013 All Associate Degree Programs (National Score)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>86.7% \u2013 All Nursing Programs (National Score)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>95.49% \u2013 OCC\u2019s score<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading alignwide\">Completion of the Nursing Program<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table alignwide\"><table><thead><tr><th>The following data reflects the number of students who graduated the OCC School of Nursing Program within six semesters (150% of the allotted time) beginning with enrollment in the first nursing course. The expected level of achievement is 65%.<\/th><th>Fall 2024<\/th><th>Spring 2025<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>Traditional Nursing Program<\/td><td>74%<\/td><td>73%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Hybrid (on site on line) Program<\/td><td>not applicable<\/td><td>61%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Total of all Programs<\/td><td>74%<\/td><td>71%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>The following data reflects the number of students who graduated the OCC School of Nursing Program within four semesters beginning with enrollment in the first nursing course. The expected level of achievement is 50%.<\/strong><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Traditional Nursing Program<\/td><td>56%<\/td><td>60%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Hybrid (on site on line) Program<\/td><td>not applicable<\/td><td>43%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Total of all Programs<\/td><td>56%<\/td><td>57%<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide pattern-cards__grid is-style-3-column is-layout-flex wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide pattern-card is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group pattern-cards__grid is-style-3-column is-layout-grid wp-container-core-group-is-layout-5 wp-block-group-is-layout-grid\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group card__item is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group card__text-wrapper is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-h4\">Honors By Contract<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A wide range of courses are available for students to participate in OCC\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocean.edu\/programs-courses\/honors-by-contract\/\" title=\"Honors by Contract\">Honors by Contract<\/a>\u201d Program!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group card__item is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group card__text-wrapper is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-h4\">Official Catalog*<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Our&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.ocean.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">interactive catalog<\/a>&nbsp;is updated throughout the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*Course requirements for degrees can and do change over time. Students are responsible for fulfilling the degree requirements that are in effect when they begin pursuing the degree at the college.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocean.edu\/programs-courses\/courses-registration\/catalog-archive\/\" title=\"Catalog Archive\">View Catalog Archive<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Completion of the National Licensure Examination (NCLEX\u00ae) Graduates of Ocean County College (OCC) School of Nursing are required to pass the&nbsp;National Council Licensure Exam (NCLEX-RN\u00ae)&nbsp;to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23466,"parent":2467,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-825","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"has_advanced_title_block":false,"subtitle":"","blurb":"","links":null},"aioseo_notices":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocean.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocean.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocean.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocean.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocean.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocean.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/825\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocean.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ocean.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ocean.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}