Nursing Students in LabThe Winona State University Department of Nursing has been providing high-quality nursing education in southeast Minnesota for more than 50 years, and they have the statistics to prove just how high that quality is.

Today’s WSU nursing graduates have a 97.92 percent first-time pass rate for the NCLEX, and the job placement rate for WSU nursing graduates is approximately 96 percent for the last reporter data set (2014-15).

Nursing graduates Hannah Ringler ’19, Mikayla Eischen ’19 and Alexandria Van Gilder ’19 spoke with Rochester Post-Bulletin reporter Matt Stolle about their experience finding a job as they approached their May 2019 graduation.

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