Your nursing career, your way
Advance your nursing career and augment your resume with an affordable degree in nursing at ACE.
Nursing and Healthcare online education programs to shape your career
When you enroll in one of our online nursing programs, you’ll be immersed in an evidence-based, innovative curriculum, propelling you forward to make a positive impact as a care provider.
If you’re a registered nurse, American College of Education is here to get you to the next level with our CCNE-accredited RN to BSN, BSN to MSN and RN to MSN programs, all built for your busy life at a price you can afford.
Choose the right path for your career
Our courses are designed to fit the lives of busy working professionals and cover today’s most relevant healthcare topics, such as patient safety and advocacy, resiliency and mental health, and transformational leadership.
Ed.D. in Nursing Education
The Doctorate in Nursing Education is for master’s degree nurses who want to help address the growing need for more RNs in today’s ever-expanding healthcare system. The American College of Education Ed.D in Nursing Education program is a fully online curriculum to prepare nurses as educators in either an academic or professional development setting.
TOTAL PROGRAM COST
$23,914*
FINISH IN
36
MONTHS†
CREDITS
64
Ed.S. in Nursing Education
This program is perfect for nurses who want to advance their knowledge in nursing education beyond a master’s degree without completing a dissertation. It’s also stackable, if you decide after completing the Ed.S. program that you would like to continue and complete an Ed.D. program with a dissertation. This means that you can apply your Ed.S. credits to the Ed.D. in Nursing Education and complete that program in just 37 credits.
TOTAL PROGRAM COST
$12,185*
FINISH IN
21
MONTHS†
CREDITS
34
BSN to MSN
Earning your Master’s in Nursing means you’re ready to become a leader in the healthcare field. If you’re a registered nurse with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, this is the next step on the path to be a nurse educator or nurse manager. With an MSN from ACE, students gain greater knowledge and expertise, potential for career advancement or extension through a different role, and more variety in career options.
TOTAL PROGRAM COST
$11,930*
FINISH IN
16
MONTHS†
CREDITS
31
RN to MSN
Turn your RN into an MSN with this accelerated program that also allows you to earn a bachelor’s degree on the way to your master’s. Designed to help you excel in evidence-based decision making, informatics, global perspectives and innovative thinking, this program prepares graduates to serve in educational or administrative roles in nursing.
TOTAL PROGRAM COST
$19,775*
FINISH IN
31
MONTHS†
CREDITS
55
RN to BSN
Earning a BSN means you’ll have advanced nursing knowledge and expanded professional skills to excel in a global and increasingly complex healthcare system. Nurses with a BSN qualify for more jobs and earn higher salaries than associate degree nurses.
TOTAL PROGRAM COST
$7,950*
FINISH IN
15
MONTHS†
CREDITS
30
Recognized and accredited
American College of Education is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission— a federally-recognized accrediting agency. This accreditation ensures that an institution’s academic program meets or exceeds acceptable levels of quality and is the most recognized accreditation status for higher education entities. To receive and maintain HLC accreditation and affiliation approval, we must continuously undergo routine peer review cycles and provide proof that our programs meet or exceed HLC accreditation criteria and expectations of quality.
Social responsibility
Our goal is to make continuing education accessible to as many people as possible. We strive to be a solution to the student debt crisis by offering high quality online programs at the lowest possible cost. Our status as a Certified B Corporation demonstrates our commitment to our online students, staff and faculty as well as the communities in which our students serve.
Take your next step with ACE
*All values shown are an estimated value of the cost of tuition and fees. Actual amounts may vary depending on the number of transfer credits applied to the selected program hours, the pace and satisfactory completion of the selected program, the receipt of scholarship or grant amounts, or adjustments to tuition or fees as described in the Catalog Right to Modify Tuition section. State sales and use tax will apply where required by law.
†This is an estimated time to completion. Actual completion time may vary depending on the number of transfer credits applied, availability of courses, a satisfactory pace, successful course completion and meeting program milestones as required.
Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) and Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) programs are accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, ccneaccreditation.org.