Launch your nursing career at Mesalands Community College and help the country!
Get a nursing degree and gain valuable skills that will significantly benefit the country and set you on a path to financial freedom. Mesalands Community College offers an excellent nursing program, providing qualified and compassionate individuals a road to pursue their dreams of becoming nurses.
Are you ready to make a real difference? Our program will give you extensive hands-on training to ensure that you are a safe and competent nurse by the time you graduate. With smaller class sizes and faculty dedicated to student success, aspiring nurses receive personalized attention that allows them to maximize their learning and eventually become accomplished nurses. This is illustrated by our recent 100% pass rate for the NCLEX and a 100% job placement rate within 3 months of graduation.
At Mesalands Community College, we gladly integrate technologies into our classes to provide the best training possible to our students. You will have the chance to work in a high-tech simulated lab with highly realistic patients, giving you first-hand experience in a hospital setting. We also use software and applications to prepare students for the NCLEX and improve their overall level of knowledge. Our future nurses complete their clinicals in the best hospitals in the region and often stand out thanks to the extensive in-house training we provide.
Join our affordable nursing program and become an exceptional nurse right out of school. With us, you will pass the NCLEX and find a job, provided you care as much as we do!
Change your life and save lives!
Nursing Student Handbook
Nursing Program Cost
State Resident Tuition – $63.00 per credit hour X 78 credits (total with prerequisites) = $4,914.00
Non-Resident Tuition – $116.00 per credit hour X 78 credits (total with prerequisites)= $9,048.00
Nursing Program fees: $4,600.00
- See the list below for fees broken down by course
- E-books are included in the cost of Elsevier 360
Students may purchase physical books if they choose, at an additional out of pocket cost through the college bookstore or a vendor of their choice.
College-wide fees $1,265.00
General Education Course fees (including BLS) $150.50
Total State Resident Nursing Program Cost= $10,929.50
Total Non-State Resident Nursing Program Cost= $15,063.50
*Program cost is approximate and is subject to change.
**These costs do not include room & board, transportation, or miscellaneous costs. An estimate of room & board, transportation, and miscellaneous costs can be found on the college website under financial aid – cost of attendance.
ASSOCIATES OF APPLIED SCIENCE IN NURSING
Nursing Application (Fillable)
Admission Application Scoring Tool
CERTIFICATES
Nursing Assistant Occupational Certificate
Phlebotomy Occupational Certificate
APPLICATION DEADLINE
- Fall application deadline: April 30th
- Spring application deadline: September 30th
ACCREDITATION STATUS
New Mexico State Board of Nursing – Initial Approval with Warning 03/07/2024 (Program Approval 2/4/2021)
New Mexico Higher Education Department (HED) – Program Approval 5/12/2022
Higher Learning Commission (HLC) – Program Approval 1/9/2023
Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing –
Effective June 27, 2025, this nursing program is a candidate for initial accreditation by the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing. This candidacy status expires on June 27, 2027.
Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN)
3390 Peachtree Road NE, Suite 1400
Atlanta, GA 30326
(404) 975-5000
https://www.acenursing.org/search-programs?status=Candidate
Note: Upon granting of initial accreditation by the ACEN Board of Commissioners, the effective date of initial accreditation is the date on which the nursing program was approved by the ACEN as a candidate program that concluded in the Board of Commissioners granting initial accreditation.
FACULTY
Shannon Fries BSN, MS, RN, CNE – Director of Nursing Education Program
Baylee Roberts BSN, RN – Full Time Nursing Instructor
Mercedes Marquez BSN, RN – Full Time Nursing Instructor
Kayla Hughes ADN, RN – Full Time Simulation Technician, Part Time Nursing Instructor
Krista Mericle MSN, APRN, FNP-C (LNP) – Adjunct Nursing Instructor
Tammy Phillips ADN, RN – Adjunct Nursing Instructor
Sandi Missildine BSN, RN – Adjunct Nursing Professor
Jenna Black MSN, RN – Adjunct Nursing Instructor
Amy Benjamin BSN, RN – Adjunct Nursing Instructor
Kayleigh Roberts, BSN, RN – Adjunct Nursing Instructor
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