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PCI Catalog 2025-2026

Licensing Rates


When graduates from a particular program must pass a licensing or certification exam prior to being able to work in the field, the Accrediting Commission for Career Schools and Colleges (ACCSC), our accrediting agency, requires that schools publish a licensing exam pass rate for those programs. Porter and Chester calculates a Licensing Rate for the Practical Nursing program using a formula specified by ACCSC. The formula uses a cohort of students who began school during a given 12 month reporting period, graduated, and took the licensure exam as the denominator, and as the numerator uses the number of students from that group who passed the exam.

For each campus which offers the Practical Nursing program, the licensing rates for classes included in the ACCSC 2024 Annual Report are:

Campus Shift Number of Graduates Pass Fail Did not take exam Pass Percentage
Porter and Chester Institute of Hamden
Hamden Day 15 6 0 6 100%
  Evening 5 5 0 0 100%
Porter and Chester Institute (Bridgeport main school and branch campuses)
Bridgeport Day 35 12 9 14 57%
  Evening 13 6 7 0 46%
             
Enfield Day 26 25 0 1 100%
  Evening 12 11 0 1 100%
             
Waterbury Day 15 6 1 8 86%
  Evening 7 7 0 0 100%