Trinidad State Junior College - San Luis Valley Campus

Trinidad State Junior College’s San Luis Valley Campus in Alamosa offers two pre-licensure pathways that share the same core: an Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN) with a Practical Nurse exit option after the first year. Students complete nursing coursework in a face-to-face format, and the program is also structured for working nurses through an LPN to ADN option that uses an admission test in the fall, a spring transition course (NUR 1089), and then placement into the second-level cohort. After successful completion of the ADN, graduates are eligible to apply for the NCLEX-RN.

Admission is competitive and point-based. Before you can start the professional nursing sequence, you’ll need three prerequisites completed: ENG 1021 English Composition, PSY 2440 Human Growth and Development, and BIO 2101 Human Anatomy and Physiology I, along with the HESI Nursing Admission test. Once admitted, expect the time commitment to increase each semester; the program notes that students are discouraged from working while enrolled due to course and clinical demands.

On the cost side, the nursing department lists program-specific expenses such as standardized testing (about $500 across two years), a nursing lab kit ($145 at registration), malpractice insurance ($16 annually), a clinical exchange fee ($36.50 for NUR 150), and the NCLEX-RN testing fee ($200 in the last semester). College charges shown include a program fee of $57.95 per credit hour, plus campus fees ($1.34 per credit), student activity fee ($3.47 per credit), and a $12.55 registration fee. First-semester supply estimates include items like a stethoscope ($58), blood pressure cuff ($26), a nursing polo ($20.99), and two sets of scrubs ($50).

Trinidad State’s San Luis Valley Campus posted an average weighted NCLEX-RN pass rate of 91.3%, compared with Colorado’s 2024 state average of 93.4%.