Rasmussen University Reviews

"Even with a reduced 1-2 class schedule per term, the rapid 6 week terms leave absolutely no room for retention or studying the subject matter. Teachers vary wildly from involved and encouraging, to completely uninvolved. Regardless, the class subject matter is almost entirely self taught. Most of my programming classes I had to google how to do basic things, because neither the lecture or the lesson content taught me how to do them. Also, when you make Honor roll, over half the letter they send is encouraging you to advertise Rasmussen to your friends and family. Absolutely disgusting! I feel deeply disappointed in myself for taking this program. At least I'll have another degree to slap on my Resume, I guess."

"Before you start reading this, know I am an A student, a hard worker, and I know that 90% of success depends on us as students. I had done a lot of schooling in my life, and this has been by far the worse experience ever. 1) When I requested information to get into this school, in the nursing program, my advisor will not stop sending emails and checking on me. Once I enrolled, I never heard of my advisor anymore, and it was super difficult to get a hold of him. I would write very long emails with details of what I needed help with and a few weeks later (if any), I would get a very broad, random answer that answered none of my questions. Very frustrating. Talking to the Dean is worse than getting an appointment with the president of the United States. The Dean is not approachable at all and if you run into the Dean in the hallway, she barely answers good morning and sends you to make an appointment with her secretary, who is also impossible to get a hold of. 2) The school offered me an ONLINE format program, reason decided to go to this school is because I am head of the household and must work full time. I cannot afford to leave work to go to school. Once you are enrolled, you discover that only 1% of the program is online, literally, one single class is online, and everything else is in person. 3) They do not let you schedule your own classes, times or professors. You as a student have to go by what they impose to you. Yes, I said impose, all classes are assigned to you, once they are assigned, you are not allowed to make any changes, nor the times, nor the professors, nor the number of classes you take. When you say something, all they say is "this is a full-time program". 4) The professors DO NOT TEACH, they are there just as moderators to enter grades, to push you to do assignments online. All assignments are across the board for the school and any campus, the professors have nothing to do with them. Some professors are not even aware of the assignments we have. They force you to write essays in APA format every week, but they do not even read them. They grade them not knowing what the topic was. All the papers have a due day, and they penalize you for sending them late, but time goes by, and the professors don't grade them until they know if you are staying in the class or failing (the failure rate is VERY HIGH). The instructor I had for physical assessment thought us NOTHING, all the knowledge comes from us reading the books and doing SELF-studying. The instructor makes the students teach each other. Many students come to the nursing program with a healthcare background. By the end of the physical assessment class, they did not even teach them how to hold a stethoscope. 5) IT IS EXTREMELY DIFFICULT to get a hold of your instructors, and they get offended when you ask them why they have not followed up on your emails. 6) The reading materials and student resources are excellent, and very useful if the students use them. 7) I personally did not find the tutor sessions helpful; they are done by more advanced students. 8) THE FAILURE RATE IN THE NURSING PROGRAM IS EXTREMELY HIGH. Yes, classes like Pathophysiology, Pharmacology, or Mental Health, start with about 100 students, by the time we take the first test, it gets reduced to 70, and by the time we take the second test, there are only 20 students left in the classroom. The school has continuously high failure rates semester after semester and doesn’t seem to care about doing anything about it. When you ask the instructor, the instructor says they had nothing to do with the test. 9) The grading system the school has is ridiculous. Each class has a bunch of assignments each week and they are time-consuming. But, their passing grade is solely based on 3 tests, the average of these tests has to be above 78%. It does not matter if you get a 100% in all the assignments. 78% sounds doable, but it is not when you have to take a test that covers 4-6 chapters at a time only in a couple of weeks. I am a really good student an had to study 24hr a day in order to barely get an 80%. I felt I did nothing else other than being on the books all the time. I love school and learning, but it is very discouraging when you have to give your life away to barely make it in class with no incentives whatsoever. I rather do online schooling if I have to teach myself. I believe it is a waste of time and resources to pay a teacher who does nothing but talk about their personal lives. I am not writing this review, because I failed. I passed my first classes with EXTREME effort. I decided not to continue in a school that only cares for the money, but not the success of the students."

"This school has lied from the beginning. I read reviews and thought maybe people just didn't apply themselves. I was wrong. I have held an A average since the beginning, I was told it's a hybrid program and flexible as I am a mother and have children and a job. I don't know about other people but I have a mortgage and bills to pay and children to feed. It is very hard these days to find adults who can afford to live without working. I have almost lost my job of 14 years due to all their schedule changes that they give with literally no notice. I have had them change my schedule literally after clinicals started and they call you at home to tell you they changed your clinicals to that day instead so drive to that facility. You are 100 percent self taught. The teachers tell you they are not there to teach you it is your job. They are strictly there for their paycheck. They have zero interest in helping you succeed. They change their policies the entire time you are in their program, moving the goalposts further so you are unable to graduate. They are doing this because they are going to lose their accreditation and it is very evident why. You have to not only achieve 78 percent on your exams, but 78 percent on your other assignments, and now their latest rule of the year is you have to achieve a level 2 in ATI in 2 tries or you fail the course. It doesn't matter if you passed all their other nonsense they put in your way. You also only get one fail because 2 fails and you are kicked out of the school. If you ask for help or guidance you will be laughed at or talked down to. Many many people are in a tremendous amount of debt, depressed, their dreams of becoming a nurse have been shattered and they have no degree. Do not go to this school."

"This school is money hungry. This is my first semester and I'm already looking to switch to another school. They truly set you up for failure so you can retake the class and they continue getting your earnings. Everyone that I talk with feels the same way. They break down the testing into different categories so they can grade you separately and if you have below a 78% on anything they automatically fail you from the class. 2 strikes and your dismiss from the program and have to wait an entire year before reapplying and starting over. Please think it through before choosing this school."

"Worst instructors, I rely on YouTube more than what they provide to me to learn. I just dropped out after 7 months in this dumb school. These so called professors have no teaching degrees they just have that specialty. So they know the job but don’t know how to teach it."

"Little to none instructor help. Have several different counselors throughout each semester which seems like they not only have external problems, but internal problems as well. I’m in graphic design but they have me in courses that pertain to other focuses"

"I'm extremely confused by these reviews, particularly the negative reviews associated with the accounting program. If you have never attempted to take an online degree program, please do not blame Rasmussen for your ignorance! This school is 20x easier than other online programs I have enrolled in. I initially questioned the quality of the education solely because of how easy it was until I came here and saw all these terrible reviews saying it was hard and realized the quality was exceptional. That was why I was breezing through it. Still, it will only work if you can handle an online format. This includes a lot of self-teaching and self-discipline for keeping on a schedule with the CBE courses. This is not unique to Rasmussen. Any online program will feel like you are teaching yourself, for the most part. Rasmussen has taught me valuable skills I am already using in my day-to-day work, and receiving this degree will skyrocket my career. Something about the actual-life application format of the classes and the ability to self-pace has proven to be the perfect recipe for me. I am performing better academically than I ever have in my entire life."

"I was sceptical when I visited the campus at first. The review I got about Rasmussen College kept me on my toes. I enrolled at the Bloomington campus in Minnesota which was very competitive. If you are able to graduate in the RN program, I am very certain you will pass your NCLEX-RN at one sitting. I graduated in May, 2020. It was worth the stress. I am currently a psych nurse in Saint Paul."

"It's entertaining to read the many negative reviews of the school. There are many of us who made it through our program and degree, and graduated, that speak highly of the experience. The workload for Criminal Justice is all online, which is very accommodating to working adults and families. There are a lot of papers, but once you learn APA and follow the requirements, they become a breeze. Instructors are knowledgeable and accommodating to students and schedules."

"I wish I had researched this school better before I enrolled. I have never written a review like this before but I hope it can help someone else. I would not recommend this school. It is poorly organized and I do not think they value their students. I have had 3 different "advisors" call me this week with 3 different plans continuing my education here. It makes me wonder if the admissions team gets commission for enrolling students- at first the school seemed like a great fit for my career change, but now that I am here I see all the things my admission advisor told me were not true. I look forward to transferring to my community college, it will take longer, but a better organization and education is worth it."

"I have started attending this school recently and decided to read some reviews about it. After reading several reviews I understand the concern for lack of teaching. I’m taking a accelerated degree that results in 5.5 week semesters and roughly 30ish hours of HW/research a week. I do work full time and I’m managing to get A’s in my classes. THIS PROGRAM IS WHAT YOU MAKE OUT OF IT. If your willing to read a very technical textbook and teach yourself a lot of materials while putting in the time you’ll be fine. If work hard and put in the time in this degree is worth it. Good luck!"

"I would never recommend Ramussen to any one. Here are the red flags: Red flag #1: your professors and advisors are going to be constantly changing/leaving. Red flag #2: you can choose to appeal for your circumstances, but most likely it won’t get accepted (they just give you an illusion that you can actually do something about it). Red flag #3: it’s literally called for profit institution. So, save your dollars/ precious time and find a better school. Don’t make the mistake that I made."

"Do not go to rasmussen. They don't care about the students. They are money hungry. They have a horrible turn over rate for professors. They don't teach you. Yes some of them were good. But you literally teach yourself. Sorry but for nursing you shouldn't teach yourself. You should be taught. Most of everyone I know has not passed the NCLEX their first time around. I am disappointed in my nursing school education. I don't know anyone who was happy there. We were all so excited to be done with that school. I also know a handful of people who left rasmussen to go to another school. They opened a new campus in Odessa but we couldn't have our classes on campus cause it was to small to fit the students. What kind of crap is that. Save your money guys!!"

"This school was a struggle to get into, and is turning into a struggled to pay off. They keep harassing me and threatening to send my amount to collections, despite having a payment plan set up. I was also told at the beginning that my financial aid would cover most of the cost, but am now stuck paying over a thousand to them DO NOT apply to this university, there a better and more affordable options out there."

"This school is a big rip-off. I went there for computer science and instead became a paper writer. Everything I learned is forgotten because I didn't learn anything useful for my field of study. With everything being online it soon became boring and repetitive. Calling the school was greeted by an answering machine and a 2 hour minimum wait for a call back- if you were lucky to get a call back. Overall, save your money and go to a state operated school. I wish I could get my money back for lack of education."

"I am currently attending Rasmussen college of nursing I can tell you this school lacks integrity and honesty it was a major mistake that I chose this school.A little about my background first I took the teas exam and scored in the one percentile in the country a 92% now most schools including Rasmussen require a 65% percent to get in I have a bachelor's degree and a doctorate degree in naprapathic medicine licensed in both the state of Illinois and New Mexico by the medical boards.So why did I chose to do nursing well I lost my wife recently and I'm a middle aged guy and I really needed something to do so I decided to go back to school start over if you will so I chose nursing well I started last quarter I took three classes was doing excellent up until the day I received my final grades for the quarter I find out the instructor for nutrition had decided to give me an F in the class now my other two classes which were much more harder my final grades were between 85% and 90%.Well I was blown away by the instructor who gave me this F, I was receiving over 90% percent in all my work in this course meaning all assignments and quizes.Now the course had three exams the first exam I scored a 86% no issues just before the second exam I was reaching out to the instructor for some guidance I told her I was having some issues with material and had questions and needed clarification on the second exam,well guess what no response from her so I was forced to take second exam with my questions left unanswered so I take the exam and scored 66% this was due to this instructors failure to do her job she failed to guide and clarify what would be required for the exam well I left it alone now the 3rd exam was scheduled for the last week of the term week 11 but 2 weeks before that the instructor sends out an email saying she wanted the students to finish the third exam one week ahead of time that's correct finish the exam a week before the scheduled date shown on her own syllabus due to the fact that she was having surgery well as you know we all live busy lives and it's hard enough to finish something on the scheduled time that was given, so when I received her email I immediately emailed her back saying this would not work for me how could she expect students to finish the exam a week ahead of time with no time to study ,again I got no response from her so I was forced to take the exam a week before it was scheduled due to the instructor deviation from her own syllables well guess what I had really had no time to prepare for the exam so I took it and scored a 74% now my grade tracker showed I was doing B work up to the last day than on the final day of the quarter the instructor notified me I would be receiving an F for the course I was outraged this instructor put me in this situation due to her lack of professionalism having first not responded to my inquiry about exam two and than forcing me to take exam three before the due date which left me no time to study for it now mind you these 3exams were only a fraction of the work done in the course all the other work I did,meaning assignments and quizes I got 90%to100%throughout the quarter.well after this I tried to talk to the student advisor thinking this would be a no brainer for her to see the gross leadership failure of this instructor but no she was playing games hiding behind policy so I kept on going up the latter to have this issue resolved and it was all the same dishonesty and not addressing what this instructor had did to cause this.All up the leadership latter I got the same garbage we can't do nothing I mean wow, so the bottom line is the administration of this school acts more like a gang covering for each other than a legit ethical management team so now I have taken this matter outside the school I will continue to push until my grade is changed and this instructor disciplined all the reviews online about this school are terrible and very similar in nature to mine I made a terrible mistake by attending Rasmussen I had read all the reviews prior to attending and my gut feeling was not to attend this school but based on the recommendation of one person I chose Rasmussen.They have stolen my time and money so my advise to potential students is to stay as far as you can away from this school it lacks integrity honesty and professionalism you will lose your time your money and your work it's truly an awful place !!!!!!"

"I have attended previous colleges before and Rasmussen is by far the best I have been to. I was on a waiting list for 2 years with a prior college for their nursing program, started looking around at other colleges, and found Rasmussen. I applied in February, was accepted in March, and started classes in April! Now I am on track to graduate in June of 2023! I must say one of the best things about Rasmussen is the Admissions Advisors, specifically Stacey Willard!! She has worked with me every step of the way! I feel like I am a very organized person but she was so amazing in keeping up with me and helping make sure I had everything needed and submit throughout the whole process, even now as a current student she is STILL working with me and helping me with any questions I have! Also, I have never been a part of a school that truly feels like they care about their student's success. Every single one of my professors (I'm taking 5 classes this quarter) has worked with us in-depth, making sure we understand what is expected of us and doing everything they can to help ensure we pass our boards on the first try. I truly mean that they have overachieved with student success. I have a classmate that was not computer savvy and the teacher stayed after class to show her how to navigate the platform. I am so amazed at the amount of support I have had so far in my program. I would 100% recommend Rasmussen University in Florida to anyone!"

"I have attended previous colleges before and Rasmussen is by far the best I have been to. I was on a waiting list for 2 years with a prior college for their nursing program, started looking around at other colleges, and found Rasmussen. I applied in February, was accepted in March, and started classes in April! Now I am on track to graduate in June of 2023! I must say one of the best things about Rasmussen is the Admissions Advisors, specifically Stacey Willard!! She has worked with me every step of the way! I feel like I am a very organized person but she was so amazing in keeping up with me and helping make sure I had everything needed and submit throughout the whole process, even now as a current student she is STILL working with me and helping me with any questions I have! Also, I have never been a part of a school that truly feels like they care about their student's success. Every single one of my professors (I'm taking 5 classes this quarter) has worked with us in-depth, making sure we understand what is expected of us and doing everything they can to help ensure we pass our boards on the first try. I truly mean that they have overachieved with student success. I have a classmate that was not computer savvy and the teacher stayed after class to show her how to navigate the platform. I am so amazed at the amount of support I have had so far in my program. I would 100% recommend Rasmussen University in Florida to anyone!"

"Do not attend this school by all means! I wish I could rate this so-called "university' a zero. I have had the worst educational experience in my life. This place is just a diploma mill. If you are searching for a technology school or gain skills in cybersecurity - please stay away! You are not going to learn anything. I was a Cybersecurity program student and I literally feel robbed. None of the instructors care to explain materials, tools, and advanced technology, nor seem to care if you succeed or not. I felt like this program has been abandoned for years. The program director doesn't bother to revise or at least look at the materials presented to students and make appropriate changes or fix errors. The hyperlinks embedded for additional study and reading are broken and lead to malicious sites selling fake IDs. Some few links that do work lead to articles posted 15 years ago! The assignments for core classes are outdated, written poorly, and with many mistakes. Even after numerous complaints to instructors and advisors nothing has been changed. It is a shame to raise tuition and not provide quality education to students. The majority of instructors for cybersecurity classes are reluctant to explain the material and assignments and don't like when students call them with questions, and overall don't care how you complete the module assignment or whether you understood the topic. You will waste your time and money at this school and learn nothing about the industry. The servers are often times down, the tools and applications are outdated, with expired licenses. You will have to wait a day or two to get in the SOT sandbox to complete your tasks. Career advisors are a big joke. They are not helpful at all. They will not care if you struggle to find a job after you graduate. If you are in the bachelor's degree program the career advisors services are useless. They will talk to you in a condescending tone and remind you that you are not the only one here needing help, so therefore they can't help. Or they will throw some general ideas like set up LinkedIn and go from there. Again, stay away at all costs! This school is not worth the price you will have to pay."

"It is March 2022 and they are STILL not back in classroom. All classes are online. They say it is because of Covid. Every other school in FL has been back for months to in person learning. Even the office personnel work from home. It’s ridiculous! After 3 quarters, I withdrew, transferred to another university, and none of my nursing credits transferred. As of right now, they still have no idea when it will be “safe” to return to campus."