New York and Clarkson College's online NP tracks
Clarkson College of Omaha, Nebraska, is a different school from Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York, and its 2026-27 state workbook answers Does Not Meet Requirements for New York wherever a nursing tab asks: graduate study, CRNA, RN-BSN. New York's education department layers its own registration rule on top for out-of-state clinical rotations. Read on if you live in New York, expect to move there, or study with Clarkson from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Vermont or Massachusetts.
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Clarkson's answer for New York
| Clarkson tab | New York |
|---|---|
| Graduate Nursing (MSN, post-graduate certificate, DNP) | Does Not Meet Requirements |
| CRNA | Does Not Meet Requirements |
| RN-BSN | Does Not Meet Requirements |
The licensing contact Clarkson gives for New York is NYSED's Office of the Professions. New York also featured in the exclusion sentence that Clarkson's catalogs carried from 2018-19 to 2023-24, so the workbook row extends a long-standing position. The state authorization guide lists the full Does Not Meet group.
NYSED's registration rule for rotations
In New York, the state signs off before a clinical rotation, not after. NYSED says nursing programs based elsewhere, online ones included, must hold its registration or approval before placing a single student at a New York site, setting aside only federal VA and military facilities. NP students face a sharper version: their NP program has to be NYSED-registered in its own right, and NYSED cautions that rotating without that registration may break the law.
NYSED's college evaluation staff go further: in the licensed professions, a clinical placement counts as physical presence in New York even for a SARA school, so the Office of the Professions has to approve or exempt it ahead of time. The carve-out for federal sites belongs to New York's rule, not to Clarkson; the workbook still says Does Not Meet, and only your program director can speak to exceptions.
Practice and licensing in New York
New York has never entered the Nurse Licensure Compact, and nothing pending would bring it in. RNs arriving with licenses from elsewhere are pointed by NYSED to a checklist for getting licensed in New York; a multistate license issued in Nebraska or Iowa carries no weight with New York patients. Nor has Albany passed the APRN Compact.
AANP lists New York as full practice once an NP passes 3,600 hours; below that mark, the NP practices under a written agreement, with protocols, alongside a collaborating physician. The license page explains how Clarkson pairs RN licensure with the clinical's location.
Big systems, big metros, and the students next door
Downstate, the names nurses recognize include Northwell Health and NewYork-Presbyterian, Mount Sinai, and the city's public system, NYC Health + Hospitals; upstate, Rochester's academic center operates as UR Medicine. Some 13 million New Yorkers live in the state's share of the metro centered on New York City, Newark and Jersey City, while Buffalo and Rochester each pass a million residents and the Albany area falls a little short.
That gravity pulls nurses across state lines every day, and it is where Clarkson students must be careful. If you live in New Jersey and commute into Manhattan, or near the border in Pennsylvania, Vermont or Massachusetts, your hours belong at home, precepted by someone your state has licensed: all four read Meets. Connecticut, like New York, does not. See New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Why Clarkson students around New York choose us
If you live in New York and are considering Clarkson College, make a program director your first call; Clarkson's authorization page directs residents of unauthorized states there before they apply. An enrolled student facing a move to New York should call before the move, too, because Clarkson ties such moves to lost aid and unfinished programs.
For Clarkson students in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Vermont and Massachusetts, we deliver the most thorough path to a clinical near home and on the correct side of the line: preceptors licensed in your clinical state, screened against Clarkson's track rules, with every detail the agreement form asks for gathered early. In Vermont we also apply the Board's bar on PA preceptors for APRN students. Send the placement desk your county and track through the contact form.
Questions Clarkson students ask
Is Clarkson College the same school as Clarkson University in New York?
No. Clarkson College sits on a one-block campus at 42nd and Dodge in Omaha, Nebraska. The similarly named Clarkson University is its own school, located in Potsdam in northern New York. The workbook on this page belongs to Clarkson College, and its New York answer is Does Not Meet across every graduate nursing track.
Could I do Clarkson clinicals at a VA hospital in New York?
Ask your program director rather than assuming. New York's registration rule leaves out federal VA and military facilities, but that is NYSED's exemption, not Clarkson's. Clarkson's 2026-27 workbook still marks New York Does Not Meet for Graduate Nursing, and only the program can say whether it would approve such a site. Get any answer in writing before a preceptor signs.
I live in New Jersey but work at a New York hospital. Where do my hours go?
New Jersey. Clarkson's workbook reads Meets for New Jersey and Does Not Meet for New York, and Clarkson expects the preceptor's license to come from the clinical's own state. A New Jersey clinic or hospital with a New Jersey-licensed preceptor keeps you inside the rules; your New York job stays separate from Clarkson hours.
Does holding a New York RN license help with Clarkson?
A New York license is what RN work in New York requires, since no multistate license reaches there, but Clarkson's answer stays the same. The Does Not Meet status follows the state of your permanent address in MyCC. If you live in a Meets state, what matters is an RN license valid wherever your clinical takes place.
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Last checked 2026-09-27
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