Karen M.

Karen M. has big dreams—but she wanted to start small. And Bay State College had the perfect program that met her expectations. “Originally, I wanted to major in pre-med,” she says, “but then I just felt like, let me go for something smaller.“

For Karen, ‘smaller’ led her to Bay State. “Honestly, what attracted me to the College was the small classes,” she says. “I just feel like that's a real plus, especially in Boston. At a lot of other schools, it's like 40 students plus per class, so you don't really have that connection to the professor.”

When she arrived at Bay State College, Karen entered the Medial Assisting program. However, an experience during a student internship at a local hospital totally changed her academic direction. “The nurses there thought I was a nursing student,” she recalls. “Then one of the nurses in the clinic said to me, ‘Karen, when I get old, I want you to take care of me. I want you to be my nurse.’"

Now enrolled in Bay State’s new Nursing program, Karen has her sights set on a new goal after graduation—to earn her MSN as a family nurse practitioner. “Honestly, Bay State is the only college that I know where you can actually find what you're capable of doing,” she says. “There’s a support system here that will help you get there.”