Full-time enrollment in the college’s R.N. to B.S.N. degree program reached 227 students in 2006, significantly higher than any other Florida school offering a similar program.

Part-time enrollments at some other schools give them bigger overall numbers than SPC, which does not have any part-timers. But the fulltime enrollment figures show the health of SPC’s program, said Jean Wortock, dean of SPC’s College of Nursing.

The enrollment numbers are contained in a report compiled by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.

Wortock attributed the healthy full-time enrollment numbers to “our commitment to excellence and our outstanding faculty.

“Our faculty has a great reputation, and we have been able to establish a very good national presence,” Wortock said. “Plus, our nursing program has been around since the 1950s – we have graduates everywhere, and the word really gets out from our alums.”

Because the figures provided by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing were for 2006, the next report should be even better. Wortock said that in the fall of 2007, nursing program enrollment at SPC increased by 50 percent.