Galen College of Nursing Reviews

"This school does not care about its students — only about filling seats and meeting quotas. I had my class schedule changed without my permission and was placed with an instructor I specifically did not choose. When I raised concerns about a language barrier that’s interfering with my ability to learn, I was completely dismissed.I drove over an hour to campus, waited almost two hours to be seen, and still got no resolution. When I escalated the issue, I was told to just “prepare and dedicate myself” — as if I wasn’t already doing that — and then offered the option to withdraw and fall behind, with a warning that I could end up with the same instructor again next term anyway. No accountability. No solution. Just blame placed back on me.If you’re considering this school, think twice. Once they have your tuition, your voice doesn’t matter. The support is surface-level, and the administration treats students like numbers — not future nurses.Read Less"

"Honestly I had higher hopes of this school but it has only gotten worse. They are super expensive and there’s a lot of miscommunication. If I wasn’t as far in as I am now I would’ve ran and gone anywhere else but here. There’s more ways to fail than there are to pass and the amount of BS for being clinically compliant along with passing through all of the other hoops is absolutely horrible. Do yourself and go somewhere else that is cheaper and has their crap together."

"Not a great school but too far in to stop there. I have 3 family members who were going to come to galen but i convinced them not to due to scattered teaching. It is unorganized and they pick and choose who rules apply to. The dean is great but is leaving and next week 3 teachers are leaving also. There is alot of turnover in staff for sure. I dont recommend this school to anyone.The info for the exams is not taught appropriately and needs to be looked in to. I have not failed any classes but alot of people i know have and it isnt there fault. It is the material and the way its taught does not align with exams.Read Less"

"I think the instructors seem extremely knowledgeable and educated beyond my expectations. I expect that they would allow remediation or ways to improve test scores for the exams. They simply throw a boat load of information at you and tell you to study the material such as the textbook the quiz exercises and read presentation slides to enhance your learning after having a 4-hour lecture in addition to an 8-hour clinical and you will have another ridiculous online course that is only there to absorb your time away from studying. They present as a private school and flexible to work hours but in reality, it is not for the average working middle aged person. The exam that our campus took was in dispute for a week with the nursing director and other instructors thought exam number 2 was unfair. After developing and ulcer and depression and patiently waiting there was no real outcome. I wanted to drop out after the second test because it was hard and we did not go over the material, which also stated by our ADMIN. It was just completely exhausting money driven and disappointing, best advice, get on the local community college wait list, pay the price *half of Galens Fees, and take a longer tract if possible. The enrollment rate is high because they make money and that is the sole focus. I didn't expect it to be easy, but this was ridiculous and unfair. The other point I want to detail is that we were told catheter training was only going to be once for now because" catheters kits are just too much money for us to keep practicing for CPE check off". There is no MERCY in this program so be ready to sacrifice your time, money and family at all costs. The college is nice, but the expectations are unrealistic, i am disappointed in myself, but if anyone is on the fence go somewhere else, as I heard Keiser is not a good college either. Something isn't right at this College, I hope there is an investigation, I also had a refund for my 3rd semester, they only gave me half and then added a balance back to my account after they disbursed money to me. I felt like sometimes people were just paid actors at this college. Last, they send so many email and course enhancement tutorials that by this time you dont know if you should listen to a different instructor's information or the instructors that threw packets at you all day. My point is information overload and mixed variety of information can cause major confusion with simply just trying to learn what to study. GOOD LUCK TO ANYONE WHO GOES HERE.Read Less"

"This is the BEST decision I made leaving the previous program I was in to come here! The instructors are great invested in your success! It is a positive environment. They do everything fairly and I like that! You want a good school this is the place to go!"

"A 91 percent in a class doesn’t even equal an A, Galen considers it a B, and a 72 percent is failing/repeat. They have unnecessary rules implemented just to make your life harder too. I didn’t know what I was getting into before it was too late. They accept low level entry scores and expect you to have high scores on everything after."

"After avoiding student loan debt for the first thirty years of my life, I naively decided to enroll at Galen College of Irreversible Student Debt and pursue an Associate degree in Registered Nursing. The biggest red flag for this school is what makes it appealing to people like me who are new college students with no transfer-in credits, they accept 100% of applicants who pass the TEAS test. 100% acceptance with 90% NCLEX pass rate, sounds like a dream, right? More like a nightmare. Galen is upfront about attendance policies (can’t miss <20%} and academic policies (>74% pass & failure of 2 or more nursing courses is grounds for expulsion). The problem is that voluntary withdrawal from any course is documented on official transcripts as course failure; even with documentation of adverse circumstances (serious illness, death, etc.). You can be on academic probation for withdrawing without ever being notified. This program is a minimum two-year commitment and, unfortunately, for a vast majority of alumni, serious illness, hardships, and loss of loved ones will occur during enrollment. Other ethical nursing programs have Leave of Absence programs that give grace to students in need of pausing academic pursuits, allowing them to maintain earned credits without penalizing them for negative circumstances that are likely out of their control to begin with. At Galen, if you have withdrawn from courses and proceed to be academically successful fourteen months after and then have your first course failure, they can dismiss you from the school. Then you have to repay the loans you now owe for the pre-requisite courses they charge double for, without an increase in income. Or pursue readmission. After sitting out multiple semesters and finally being approved for readmission, you are once again set up to fail. You continue the program with not only your earned credits, but also the negative course credits. If a re-admit passes retaken courses, the cumulative GPA will remain under 2.0 unless they achieve over an A-grade in ALL REMAINING COURSES. If the cumulative GPA is under 2.0, the student is again up for dismissal as well as non-approval for student loans to pay for this shark of a school. Greedy Galen will let a hopeful re-admit rack up even more debt, allowing the student to dig a deeper financial hole that they’ll likely never recover from, without advising them of the slim likelihood of success. There is also no official disciplinary probation period, so it can last as long as your Program Director likes(this is not universal & varies between students & campus). Again, past negative academic marks never dissolve, even after successfully retaking the courses, permanently staining student GPA’s! This school accepts all applicants so they can charge double for pre-requisite courses. Galen ensures NCLEX pass rates remain high by weeding out weaker students so that only self-taught academically gifted students who never fail or withdraw from a course make it to taking the NCLEX. My cohort started with >60 students, there are currently <20 students left that have two terms until graduation. I wish I would have looked at the statistics for students who successfully complete Galen’s programs before I wasted my time and money. I hope the BBB shuts down this money trap.Read Less"

"I had a horrible experience at Galen in Gainesville. I should have known something was wrong from the first semester I started they were passive things like giving me a brand knew pair of scrubs pants that was ripped down the middle. The classes are too expensive. Second semester fundamentals is $5,000. So if you don't pass it, that's what you have to pay again. When I took pharmacology, I withdrew because they brought in an instructor who told Cortney jokes the whole time would make passive aggressive remarks to get the students to single me out because he was targeting me. I knew the material but because he refused to give me my correct grade I was failing when I got my third grade. The pharm test was on scantron. The instructors have the pen, so they pretty much give you what they want. When I took sociology, I would always have issues when writing my papers on canvas too, like Grammarly would always mess up on me but not in any of my other courses. In microbiology online, that was just terrible my courses on canvas for this course and pharmacology were removed for no reason for about a week which delayed my studies,then my worksheets in Canvas got removed. I reported this to my instructor but she couldn't understand why I was having these issues. She did everything she could to try and help me, but I could tell that something else was going on to try and prevent me from studying. When I finished all my prerequisites I was supposed to start clinicals for med.surg. the next semester but all of a sudden it said I didn't have any financial aid to cover my tuition at Galen, even though I was told that I had enough financial aid to finish the program.Read Less"

"Horrible school, school instructors set up the students for failure. Instructors turn over rate very high in which makes learning in a classroom environment nearly impossible. School was convenient and heard great outstanding results from one of the other locations. 60-75 percent of the cohort is borderline failing and the instructors show no empathy or concern. RUN away before you invest your money and time"

"Great experience so far! New campus with a great location, faculty and staff are helpful and understanding. I’ve met so many new people and am in a study group that meets every week. Looking forward to my first clinical rotation next term…if you’re looking for a VN to ADN Bridge program, I would check out this one."

"Would Not recommend! The new program director is rude and condescending. She had me unenrolled the day before finals and the last day of class for an error in attendance. I had proof on my phone I was in class. She ignored me told me to take it up with the instructor who was quitting anyway so he didn't care. Then come to find out the same instructor was counting me present back in the fall when I had dropped the class and had proof. so she would not let me continue after being half way done with the program. Even though it was an error on her instructors.Read Less"

"To be honest I’m not even sure when I am graduating from this school anymore. They are trying to block my graduation because apparently they think some students should not graduate so they can keep the NCLEX pass rates high and block the students they think won’t pass. Last semester they switched clinicals from once per week to twice per week. Now they are choosing clinical sites and they’ve enrolled me in a 2 hr away clinical while working full time. If you actually want a degree, choose a different school. They make all these promises when you are applying in and then it’s the complete opposite. They said they had clinical sites close to me. When in fact there was only 1 and they split away from Galen when I started. I was fortunate enough that they accepted my other credits from another school but others weren’t that lucky. Just stay away from this school at all costs!Read Less"

"I see that someone using my name has written a terrible review for Galen. I DID NOT WRITE THAT POST. I had an excellent experience with Galen. Their communication is lacking in some areas but overall felt that I was VERY prepared for NCLEX and the world of nursing."

"I would say me personally if I knew what I know now. I would have never picked this school. i’m currently attending and finishing a course but as soon as it is done. i’m taking the lost of money I spent in this school and leaving. the program is designed to failed students at first they tell you a bunch of promises and they don’t even keep any of them. first of all I was told we was able to pick our clinical sites and when you do. they just chose a random location far away and sent you and then they refused to give you a reason. The tests are on paper and scantron for a such expensive school it shouldn’t be like that. I barely was able to read the paper test because of the printing. You CANNOT review your exam because they use the same exam every quarter. They claimed that they had opened lab till 6pm it’s a LIE. the open lab prof only here 9am-12pm basically the time you’re in class and he’s barely there at the time you show up you have to search the building for him or he doesn’t show up because of he’s doctor appointments. The medsurge prof one particular for bridge doesn’t even know what is on the exam herself always telling us to read the book and tell us oh you should focus on this and that and nothing she says focus on is on the exams so it’s a trick. THEY’RE Trying to fail you. Retaking the course is more money for the school. There is no study guide, no assignment to help boost Up your grade. ONLy 4 exams which are 25% of your grade which are so confusing. and a dosage test. if you fail dosage you failed the course, if you fail Cpe, you fail the course, If you fail ATI you fail the whole course. If you don’t have a 74 in the course you fail the course. They also do not round if you missing a point. IF you happen to choose this school GOOD LUCK TO YOU. I didn’t see those reviews until after I was already in the school I had high hopes until I realized nothing was how I was told and looked to see if I was alone then I found the reviews and i’m warning you guys that is thinking of this school.Read Less"

"These teachers are unprofessional. You can’t take them seriously. Sometimes I feel they don’t want some of us to be successful. The one professor has a mean look on his/hers face. It’s very hateful. I will never recommend anyone going to any campus. I see a lot of bad reviews about a lot of the colleges, and other areas. Apparently they all must work about alike. They want your money not your success. This school is a big joke."

"If I could score them lower I could. It’s designed to make you fail, they do not teach at all what is on the test. It’s about tricking you not about your knowledge. The skills assessments are completely unrealistic. The teachers don’t teach, instructors don’t instruct, nobody works in the front office, registration is a nightmare. If you work they will tell you to stop, the program is ungodly priced and they don’t even teach. Go anywhere else it’s a horrible school."

"This school is a joke. They try to encourage you by saying you can work full time while doing their class work because they have a "flexible" program. Nothing could be further from the truth. They assign you what they want to and you had better make your schedule work around it or you will be dismissed. You basically teach yourself through their "modules" on a computer. You will be lucky if you have a clinical assignment in the SAME STATE you are attending."

"Some of The staff at Galen college in Pembroke Pines branches is very rude. They don’t have no customer service skills when you email them you have to begging to get an answer back.they pretend like they going to help you when they are not.the way they respond to you give you a sense how much they hate their job.this is very sad to deal with people like that."

"This school for the most part does not care about the student. The last year during the pandemic, we had to self teach ourselves. Missed out on Galen's million dollar lab and did not get any reduction in money for having to teach ourselves and use youtube to learn content. This program is very disorganized and people fail right and left. Things change and are not told to students. The "flexible" schedule is a joke. They do not work with your schedule. They make a schedule and you work around it. If I could go back. I would have gone to a community college. Gotten credits that actually transfer to other school and paid less than half of what I paid for my tuition. I am thankful I am an RN, but Galen is NOT A good school, is not organized and benefits so much from failing students. Please look elsewhere.Read Less"

"I attended Galen from 2018 and was supposed to graduate in 15 months ...repeated 2 classes. During my final two quarters I failed advanced med surg by 1 point. I was in class via zoom. During this entire time I have had several serious personal issues occur and I was dismissed. During the first outbreak of covid I was working in a long term care facility with no RN in the building and of course no DON we were under severe distress. When I didn't make it this last time my administrator contacted the program director explaining what we had experienced and to allow me to return. We all are under so much distress. They told me to reapply. I did but they still denied me readmission. More now than ever they should be more flexible. They did not take anything into consideration. The first time that I had to repeat med surg 80% of that class failed. That should send out a red flag that possibly there is something wrong with the instruction. I'm very dissatisfied they will not allow me to go back and get my degree I have been an LVN for 29 years and now in debt due to GAlen over 27,000.00 and no degree. I agree they do make it hard to pass. I told several people since I started that this is not a good school to attendRead Less"