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Riverside City College · School of Nursing (SON)

Vocational Nursing

LPN/LVNPrelicensure — leads to a first nursing license examPublic

Award: Vocational Nursing (certificate or associate degree)

Program facts last verified October 6, 2026. Each fact links to the official page it came from.

Overview

A one-year vocational nursing program preparing graduates for entry-level licensed vocational nursing practice, available as a certificate or associate degree.

Credential
Practical / vocational nursing
Delivery
On-campus
Study intensity
Full-time
Duration
1 year
Source: rcc.edu · verified October 6, 2026
Credits
49.5-54.5 units
Source: rcc.edu · verified October 6, 2026
Campus
Riverside City College — Riverside, CA

Entry background & licensure

Who can apply
New to nursing (no prior degree needed)
Source: rcc.edu · verified October 6, 2026
Licensure stage
Prelicensure: prepares students who are not yet licensed for a first license exam

Admissions requirements

Background check
Clear criminal background, drug and health clearance at time of program admittance
Source: rcc.edu · verified October 6, 2026
Other requirement
Spaces are selected by rank order of multi-criteria points; there is no wait list
Source: rcc.edu · verified October 6, 2026

Requirements not listed here are unknown to us — not “not required”.

Tuition & fees

Shown exactly as the school publishes it, with its fee basis. Per-credit, per-term, annual and total-program figures are never treated as comparable.

  • $46 per credit

    All students — Per unit each semester as listed on the nursing page

    Source: rcc.edu · verified October 6, 2026

Other fees

  • ATI PN Supreme package (estimated): $1,650 (program) · mandatory Source: rcc.edu · verified October 6, 2026
Institution-wide tuition (all students, not nursing-specific)
  • Average undergraduate tuition, in-state, full-time, 2023-24: $1,380
  • Average undergraduate tuition, out-of-state, full-time, 2023-24: $11,190
  • Required fees, in-state undergraduates, full-time, 2023-24: $40
Source: nces.ed.gov · verified October 6, 2026

Start terms & deadlines

Start terms: Fall Source: rcc.edu · verified October 6, 2026

  • Opens first business day in February, closes first business day in March

    Fall (every year)

    Source: rcc.edu · verified October 6, 2026
    Date not confirmed

A date without a year printed next to it on the school's page is shown as “date not confirmed”. Passed dates are never rolled forward.

Clinical, simulation & campus requirements

Clinical arrangements: not verified. We publish this only when the school states it on an official page.

We never infer a placement guarantee from marketing wording; only arrangements the school states are shown.

Accreditation & approval

Program accreditation, state board approval and institutional accreditation are separate. Records below cover this program's degree level at this institution as the body lists it.

Nursing program accreditation

  • ACEN— Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing

    Practical (LPN/LVN) · Riverside, CA

    Source: acenursing.org · verified October 6, 2026
    Accredited

  • ACEN— Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing

    Scope as stated by the source

    Source: rcc.edu · verified October 6, 2026
    Accredited

Published outcomes

Exactly as published, with year and population. Results for one program or campus are never applied to another.
MeasureYearResultPopulation / scope
NCLEX-PN pass rateRiverside City College202598%64 candidatesFirst-time test takers, RCC VN program (California Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians data as reported by RCC)
Source: rcc.edu · verified October 6, 2026
Program completion rateRiverside City College2024-202577%70 candidatesStudents who began the first nursing course (NVN-42) and completed on time in two semesters and two intersessions
Source: rcc.edu · verified October 6, 2026

Sources

  1. ACEN Search Programs: Riverside City College — Accreditor directory, verified October 6, 2026
  2. rcc.edu/pathways/health-related-sciences/vocational-nursing.html — Official school page, verified October 6, 2026
  3. rcc.edu/programs/nursing.html — Official school page, verified October 6, 2026

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