Rasmussen University Reviews of Associates in Nursing

"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."

"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."

"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!!"

"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!"

"Horrible school don’t waste your money and time. The deans suck and the teacher also. Your better off going elsewhere. All they care about is taking your money not teaching you anything. They need to be shut down. They have no communication between the students, deans or teachers. I would give a big fat zero"

"Do not go to this institution. Please save yourself time and money! THEY DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOU OR YOUR EDUCATION. It’s hectic, frustrating and absolutely ridiculous. The instructors do not teach you anything. The Dean and advisor are no where to be reached when you need them!"

"The Good: You can start almost immediately. The program is accelerated and can be done in a year to 18 months if you can afford to do so. There were a few instructors that were great. I think the TEAs score requirements are lower than other colleges. The Bad: Expensive, especially for the quality of education. Little organization to ANYTHING. Schedules are not published until after the quarter starts. There is NO flexibility. Many of us worked and had to find very flexible employers to make schedule changes at the last minute. Clinical experience was awful for the one on-site experience. We were in a TCU that didn't want nurses there. I drove over an hour to sit in a lobby area and do my homework while paying almost $400/credit ($2,400 for this class). I was an LPN with a lot of years of experience. I rode on that education to get me through. My experience with my LPN program at a local tech college was FAR superior to this experience. Rapid turnover of staff. I had one class with 4 instructors in a week because everyone quit. No communication from the Deans. The Ugly: Rampant, uncontrolled cheating. If they can't isolate who is doing it, the whole cohort will be punished by invalidating test results and requesting a re-take within a week. No explanation other than "compromised code - retake it now." Research the NCLEX pass rate - at the Bloomington Campus it is low. The completion rate is sad. I see how so many people don't make it through. No support from the upper levels of administration who are clearly in charge of making every decision. I was threatened to be removed from the program after I was asked to quarantine (FROM THE CAMPUS) for Covid symptoms. I had to "appeal" and go way up the chain of command to address this. No rhyme or reason to the appeal process - one person may get approved, one person with an identical situation will be rejected. Buyer beware - this is mostly a self-taught program with massive levels of disorganization. I understand the desire to get started quickly and complete quickly; however, you will find out quickly that less than 1/2 of the people you start with make it. These credits are not transferrable to other schools."

"I went to the Rasmussen Rockford campus which has the highest NCLEX passing rates. Make sure you look into the exact branch you are planning on going to, as when covid combined branches for online class we could tell there was little to no discipline at other campuses. This is a tough program because it is expedited. That being said, I felt more prepared than many of the other new nurses I started my job with. Regardless you learn most of what you need to know on the job. Rasmussen helped me to build a good foundation beforehand."

"This school has the worst RN program and I would never recommend it to anyone. The staff are completely unprofessional, you teach yourself most lessons and classes, there is no compassion for even the toughest situations, and they do absolutely pick and choose who and what they will accommodate. I am fairly certain the good reviews on here are not real. I am currently in the program at the Bloomington campus and literally not one person in our program that I have talked to is satisfied with the education we are receiving or was aware before signing up for this school that we can't select our times for classes, like any other college or university. The first couple weeks of each new term is just panic attacks of trying to ask for forgiveness from daycares, jobs, families, and other obligations about the University last-minute changing your schedule and if you don't accommodate the new schedule you will get kicked out of the program. The only way the university allows you to make up a class is if you have jury duty/court, you are literally dying in a hospital, or you are giving childbirth; however don't miss more than one class in those cases, because you will have to restart your class and repay for it too. Also, your credits don't transfer to a university without completing the degree. Just run. I am a straight-A student, I really hate giving bad reviews for things because I really don't like to complain, I but I hope if one person sees these reviews and it helps them consider a different university, I promise the time you save in this program is not worth the stress. Also, they lost a ton of staff this year. A past instructor had mentioned to me they had left their job because they simply could not work for a University that treats its students like paychecks and has policies that are mostly inequitable. Also, you will notice the discrimination the staff displays through their favoritism, and bending of policies for certain students, but not all. I would not name this school especially friendly of ethnic minorities, racial minorities, LGBTQIA+ folk, or neurodivergent people, and would recommend if you are a member of one of these groups, to absolutely consider a different university with good inclusion policies."

"I started the class and second without giving me any deadline when to pay the tution ,they have withdrawn me from the class. I did all the assignments and studying for first and second week then i just received an email from the director of admissions they have withdrawn me from class becasue i have not posted attandance for class ,although submitted all my assignments .In the email they mentioned they have not heard from when to start the class even though i talked to the advisor the day i started my class and submitted my assigbmnets.The next day i called and the director of admission had a complete different story saying i didnt pay for tutuion and i was never given dead line , the last day to pay for the class. I was very hurt and dissappointed like they have no feeling for thier students ."

"This place is the biggest joke ever. The only pro of going to this school is how accelerated the program is. They constantly are changing rules and never tell the students until someone complains or they email you days after changing everything. All classes are online which is a joke. Not everyone can learn in an online environment especially a medical field. Labs are only two days, one online where you watch videos for 8 hours and one on campus where you learn one skill and then leave. Students are not prepared when going into clinical(s). All they focus on is ATIs, which is fine, but then also throw all this unnecessary homework and discussion posts while having to take exams. ATIs are also worth 20 percent of your grade so basically is you have an A and get a level 1 you drop to a low B or C. There’s only maybe 3 instructors at the campus who are great, other than that everyone sucks. My one clinical instructor for PN3 talked mad shit about all her PN1 students and constantly complained about how stupid they are, what teacher does that!? honestly, this school is a joke and costs more money than it even should. I’m glad I graduated but would never recommend this school to anyone. Literally any school is better than this shit hole."

"Let’s just say that for PN3 our last big nursing class our final was 100 questions and the day before our exam they were like jk it’s actually 150 questions.. When asked the Professor why, she said it was something that the higher ups did, I am guessing from Florida because that’s who always decides everything.. Not only that but they focus so much on ATIs!! Why!! When we have course lectures as well.. On our last quarter we take PN3, role and scope, and capstone.. Not only that but Capstone made us retake all previous proctored ATIs and have to level up every single one.. Right before we take 3 proctors in capstone alone so overall 11.. Do you know how hard it is to study all that?? On top of the two other classes that have regular lecture exams? I actually felt bad for the Professors as well. Too nice and the higher ups demanding. Also, everything was based on the Florida students.. Why..?? If Florida does bad why do IL students have to suffer? Not fair at all."

"Wow I don’t know where to start. Should I blame myself for choosing a school with a accelerated nursing program? Sure why not. I’ll blame myself for not getting good enough grades for ucf, fair to me. However, will I blame myself for professors lying, deans playing favorite, 3 week email replies, different rubrics for each class and then the rubrics changing during finals when instructors are told to change their rubric? No way. This is such a bad school I can’t even describe it. They only care about you passing ATI but don’t worry you have 4 exams each 11 weeks per class. So study for exams or ATI? Idk?... save yourself money and do anything else or go anywhere else please. I never write reviews but my goodness Rasmussen college (I’m in Orlando) is the worst place on earth. (I’ve never been to the Middle East)"

"DO NOT GO HERE FOR NURSING SCHOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS LITERALLY THE WORST SCHOOL FOR NURSING, NO INSTRUCTION, ABSURD RULES, ALL ON YOUR OWN TEACHING. THE PROFESSORS DO NOT KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING AT ALL. ABSOLUTELY NO ORGANIZATION. I HAVE BEEN A STRAIGHT A STUDENT MY WHOLE LIFE AND STUDY ALL OF THE TIME BUT LOSE POINTS FOR REALLY STUPID THINGS, MOST DUE TO THE FACT THAT THEY WOULD NOT HAVE A DROPBOX AVAILABLE IN TIME FOR THE ASSIGNMENT OR BECAUSE THEY HAVE 4 AVAILABLE AND I SUBMITTED TO THE "WRONG" ONE. JUST A TERRIBLE SCHOOL, TERRIBLE COMMUNICATION, AND I MOSTLY HAVE BEEN TEACHING MYSELF FROM YOUTUBE AND GOOGLE. TERRIBLE TERRIBLE TERRIBLE. MOST OF MY CLASS AGREES."

"So you want to become a RN, and find a school with no waiting list. You think Rasmussen looks good. As a current student I can tell you this place is a joke. There is no learning atmosphere, you do online lecture (which is a previous nurse with no teaching experience) that is the teacher reading slides that cover maybe 5% of what is in the reading you will due on your own. So that is about 100 pages of reading per class, but don't forget you need to retain all this knowledge to pass there test. You do not do clinicals at a actual clinic, the have a software called Vsim that you have to figure out on your own cause the teachers are only given 1hour crash course. When you have test out on a skill there is no real practice just watching a poor quality video then having to practice on a stuff animal at home cause you can not practice in the state of the art lab until the day you test out. If you can learn all the course materials on your own and don't need any form of guidance or assistance in learning this program is for you. Cause all you really get is text books and a bill for tuition. Then they wonder why no one is passing the NCLEX. It must be the students cause they do everything they can to help you succeed 😂. So if you want a degree and nothing more then come here. However, if you want an education along with your degree I would look elsewhere. They are currently being reviewed for there ADN programs accreditation."