South University Online Reviews of Master's in Nurse Practitioner (Family)

My experience with South University was wonderful. I received a tremendous amount of support from all of my professors, financial aid advisors and student support counselors. I attended the school online while working fulltime and I found it to be very adult learning friendly. Accessing the online textbooks and proctored exams were easy as well as navigating through the portal to obtain required assignments. I will be continuing my DNP at South University and I recommend this university I feel like... Read More they prepared me for my career as a FNP. Yes, there was a lot of papers to write, Discussion posts to answer and tests to take, but we are professional students at this level and school isn't meant to be easy at this level. So, if you're not willing to put in the work required then this level of nursing profession is not for you.

The only good thing I could say is that I have had one good instructor, who made sure you understood what was missed and knew what you needed before the class ended and my first financial advisor, who resigned. It has been an ongoing horrible experience. No communication about clinical. Instructors are not resourceful. We teach ourselves. We don’t get feedback. We have to set up our own clinical rotation. I just have nothing good to say. I only have 4 practicums left, but I mentally cannot handle... Read More this stress, so trying to transfer after a few weeks off.

CHOOSE another school that CARES about your success, not your wallet. Classes are completely self-taught with no provisional lectures. You are on your own as far as finding clinical sites. Grading between instructors are very inconsistent, most are more concerned about your APA writing format than content. Keep in mind with NO help from classes, they are now using webcams to monitor students for exams and giving tests that are not always relevant to class material covered in required textbooks. Some... Read More professors don't respond to emails in timely manner. Had one class where the instructor was missing for the first 2 wks of class then was replaced. The replacement instructor took points off assignments that were turned in prior to her being assigned to our class - THEN she informed the class her expectations - after deducting points for something we were unaware of. I feel like I've dedicated tooo much time into this program, which only provides busy work and no instruction whatsoever, and they are NOT out for our interest one bit. Their goal is to make money off of you even if it means flunking you to make you repeat classes and spend even more money. Do your research and FIND another school that cares about student success.

Horrible institution. You will be tested on material not covered in the reading. You will not be taught anything as the "professors" are merely facilitators. From the beginning of this program I have brought forth concerns with the lack of guidance within the courses, the lack of lectures, and the lack of follow through when there are issues. I am now 20k into the program so I have to finish what I started. I love to learn. I love to test. I have been waiting for the opportunity to get my Master's... Read More degree for quite a while and feel so very foolish for having been duped into this program. Please do not repeat my mistakes.

I will be graduating from South University in August and I am very dissatisfied with this school and their online program. First of all, it is completely self taught, second of all they provide you with ZERO help with finding clinical site rotations, and lastly they are not allowing me to walk in the year of 2018. I have paid South University nearly 60K dollars and they only offer a graduation ceremony to the online students once a year. I finish the program in August and they expect me to want to... Read More wait till the following June (10 months later) to walk! This is completely unacceptable, and I do not recommend this school!

I am in this school and it is THE WORST!! For the NP program there are more than 3500 students and only 9 full time faculty members. Academic advisors, admissions counselors, they all have been talked to about the continuous problems associated with this program. There is no learning process, much busy work, and they will not go over information you missed on tests and review your areas of weakness. There forum brightspace is a joke!! I am still a year from graduation and am looking into other schools... Read More for transfer. I hate it!!