The National Council Licensure Examination pass rate for registered nurses dropped to 71.6% in the first quarter of 2025, down from 79.1% in the same period in 2024. The decline affected U.S.-educated ...

If you are planning for your NCLEX — National Council Licensure Examination — you are likely nearing the end of your nursing school journey and will soon complete the process of becoming a registered ...

Critics have raised concerns around the NCLEX test and the rate at which students are passing the exam, but chief nursing officers told Becker’s there are reasons for the improved scores. In April, ...

The share of candidates who pass the licensure exam to work as a registered nurse has significantly dropped in recent years, and the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) -- the ...

WASHINGTON, N.C.— The Beaufort County Community College associate degree nursing program’s Class of 2023 holds a 100 percent pass rate for the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX). The class ...

“Both as a nurse, but also as a potential patient, I want nurses to be highly qualified,” said Linda Aiken, PhD, RN. “I don’t think anybody in the public is interested in lowering standards for nurses ...

CHARLESTON — For the second year in a row, Eastern Illinois University’s Gail and Richard Lumpkin School of Nursing has led its students to achieve a 100% pass rate on the NCLEX – the licensure ...

Mikeie Reiland is a staff writer for Education at Forbes Advisor. Before coming to Forbes Advisor, he wrote magazine journalism for publications like the Oxford American, Bitter Southerner, and Gravy.