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Who writes this, and who picks up the phone

A small advisory bench rather than a call centre. Everyone below works across the whole network of schools we cover, which is exactly why none of them has a reason to steer you toward Purdue Global.

Marisol VantreaseMEd

Lead adviser, undergraduate pathways

Spends most of her week on prior-learning assessments, which at Purdue Global is where the real money is decided. Her standing advice to every RN who calls is to get the credit count in writing before accepting any quoted total, because the same degree can differ by sixteen thousand dollars on identical tuition.

Devrin OkonkwoMSN, APRN, FNP-BC

Clinical placement specialist

Works the preceptor and site side across every school on the network. He is the reason the comparison pages take placement seriously rather than treating it as a footnote, and he is usually the one who can tell you in a single call how hard a placement will be where you actually live.

Corinne HalvorsenMSN, RN

Adviser, competency-based programmes

Covers ExcelTrack here and the equivalent tracks elsewhere. She is blunt about pace, because a flat term fee rewards speed and quietly punishes optimism, and she would rather talk someone out of a competency track than watch them pay for terms they did not use.

Emory LindqvistMSc

Research and policy

Reads the catalogs so nobody else has to. Every figure on this site traces back to a published Purdue Global source with a date attached, and when a policy note is ambiguous he is the one who checks it against a second surface before it goes anywhere near a page.

Priyanka RaghunathanMSN, RN

Adviser, graduate programmes

Takes most of the MSN and doctoral calls, which at this school means delivering unwelcome news early: neither the trial nor credit for experience reaches graduate candidates. She spends a good part of her week explaining what is left once those two are off the table.

Bethan AshgroveMA

Adviser, returning and stalled students

Works with nurses restarting after a gap, the group most likely to be caught out by the returning-student exclusion. Her first question is always about credit already earned, because it is usually worth more than people assume and almost never gets assessed properly.

How this site is researched

Every figure traces to a Purdue Global published source — the academic catalog, the tuition schedule or the university's own programme pages — and carries the date it was checked. Where a policy note is ambiguous we verify it against a second surface before it goes on a page; a closure notice on the tuition table was rejected that way after the catalog and the live programme page both contradicted it.

We do not reproduce the university's marketing figures. Where a published band exists we model from its midpoint rather than its floor, because the floor is the number the advertising already quotes.

Pages are written by the adviser who covers that area, carry a byline, and are revisited when the underlying policy moves. Our advisers write under professional names.

How we are paid

By the professionals we go on to support with coursework and clinical placement, once they are enrolled somewhere. Not by Purdue Global, not by any other school, and not through referral arrangements with any of them.

That is the whole reason a page like the one about the name can say plainly that a state university might serve you better. A practice paid per enrolment could not publish that sentence.

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Tell us where you are and we will put you with whoever actually covers it, rather than whoever answers first.

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