Utica University

PLEASE READ ALL THESE REVIEWS!!!!!!!! I did not believe this school could be that horrible and unfortunately I ignored all the bad reviews. I wish I would have trusted the reviews and saved money. Everything posted is what I experienced in the program. They will do everything possible to make you repeat and take your money. This was a low budget experience. The quality of the school and in person lab is ridiculously below standard. The equipment is cheap and outdated materials will be provided. It... Read More was very obvious this school is hurting for money and new admissions. They will eagerly lure you in and quickly take your money. No support provided at all. This place is a joke! My only advice is RUN!!!!!!!!! They won't turn any money away all will be accepted!

They are a big scam of a program. Save yourself money and stress. They will make you fail classes and retake for 3500$. I would never have went to this program had I known what it entailed. I read the reviews but I was eager to enter a FNP. Well, I hate to admitted but it is true the enrollment guy would call you every day to tell you how wonderful it’s the FNP and how flexible and well prepare the professors are. I started on August 30, 2021 the class is for 8 weeks first they lie to me. They said... Read More my assignment days were Thursdays and it turns out it was Wednesdays with posting class videos and class participation, follow by answering peers before Fridays again video and backed with a least two articles then follow by two page reactions papers on Sundays and quizzes ( of a least two chapters per week) Flexibility was Zero as a matter of fact at the 7 week my overall grade was B and for the last week I have to do a slide presentation in which by mistake I ended-up uploading in the wrong site as a result the professor was so kind she took 30 points and then she gave me a final grade of F. When I complained to the Dean HOW OUTRAGEOUS AND ARBITRARY WAS TO FAIL ME her answered was “the class was closed and I could appeal the professor decision. Then they put me in academic probation. Thank God this was my first and only class, then they were calling me to enroll in Spring Classes. Why would I want to waste my money, time and energy in a Collage that obviously has poor resources and has little to none support for full time working students. Also my professors who I could tell the way she treated me “unaware of her cultural bias” told me “gee gosh mmm I don’t know if you are a right fit for the program” For writing papers Smart Thinking charting $150 per 3 hrs. To check you literature papers and APA Form and they answering you most likely within 48-72 hrs. Honestly, the experience was very unpleasant not to mention a complete waste of $3000. STAY AWAY IT’S NOT WORT IT, I READ THE REVIEWS BEFORE BUT I WANTED TO GIVE A TRY AND I REGRET MY DECISION EVERY MINUTE PLEASE DON’T WASTE YOUR MONEY.

This is the biggest joke of a nursing school. They treat the students like absolute shit, do not offer ANY resources aside from the online ebook. Your exams will NEVER match the blueprints they offer to study. And they do not value the mental health of their students at all rather brush it off and say “that’s how nursing school it” Professors tell students “maybe you are not cut out for the program” rather than giving support when you reach out for additional help. The only lectures you got is the... Read More ones on YouTube. I can not like Victoria Schad/ Nelson are the only good professors this college has. They will NEVER show you your exam grades or the exam questions to review so you’ll never know how well/poor you actually did. They are a big scam of a program. Save yourself and your mental health. They will make you fail classes over 1 point and retake for 3500$. I would never have went to this program had I known what it entailed. This is not an angry student with a bad experience- EVERYONE feels this way. The positive reviews are NOT from their ABSN program.

Ok, I waited to write this post because this school exhausted me both mentally, emotionally, and financially. Disclaimer: Nursing is hard. You better be willing to put in the work but this school is something different. This is a joke of a nursing school. It is what you call a scam. Many people are hopeful about getting into nursing school after putting in the work with prerequisites and getting a bachelor's. It is also very saturated in my area specifically (also many people from long island are... Read More targeted FYI). I was looking into a school that was fast as I wanted to progress in my career as quickly as possible. Let's talk about this bootleg school: -There is an admission counselor(Mark was mine) that will literally call you every day to walk you through the process of getting your money, essentially. At first, I was like what a great school, that really cares about its students and wants you to grow. It's kinda like being around a narcissist, it is all smokes and mirrors after you realize what you are getting yourself into. -Also many of the students in my cohort moved to Liverpool for this program. So not only does this school rob you of your tuition, now you have to move to this far away land and pay for rent where they do not teach anything relevant. -There are no textbooks, they only have ebooks which are very straining for your eyes with the amount of bs work that the school gives. -This program claims to be hybrid. It is basically an online program, to be honest. Professors DO NOT CARE. Some of these people literally have so much family stuff going on in their personal lives and bring that into a classroom setting or into the live zoom class. Some of these professors are VERY UNPROFESSIONAL. There are professors that have emailed back after 2-3 weeks which literally blows my mind even now. There was like maybe one professor that cared named Prof. Nelson. The department head is a joke. She does not care if you pass or fail or both. -Tests are monitored and recorded. The test questions do not have anything to do with modules, recordings, textbooks, old NCLEX questions or labs. There are no reviews. Tutoring is no help. I have attended many tutor sessions. They hire this random person from another state that literally goes over old NCLEX questions from her own notes which like never shows up on a test. -There are these random zoom labs, a waste of your 3 hours because you break out into a group and pretty much answer questions by yourself or a group. There are these vsims that are graded for less than 10% of your grade. The whole class just looks pissed to be there because it is waste of time. One of the classes is health assessment the exams are worth 75% of the letter grade based on 3 exams; so pretty you can not do badly on exams at all. There are is no form of direction and they make the tests so hard. I can go on and on with all the jacked-up things this school has put me through. This horrible, horrendous and disgusting institution of a school should be SHUT DOWN and should not be accredited by any means. I guess if you are naturally a good test taker, you should go here but if you are trying to really learn, please do not come here. RUN. Go to a real nursing school that actually teaches you something and you can help a patient. This school is scam. They will make you drop a class and then have you stay a whole semester to retake one or two classes. You will waste not only your MONEY but your TIME. Whoever runs this money-making institution they call ABSN and I hope you are reading this, I wish you all the worst in life and I wish you all the energy and pain that you have given for these last few months. May you reap what you sow, genuinely from robbing people of their money...

I attended Utica College ABSN program in Syracuse. The only classes that were in person were the labs 1-2 days/week. Clinical rotations were also in person at local hospitals. As for the rest of the classes, they were quite literally “read pages 700-900 in the book by Friday.” There are no lectures and there is no one actually teaching the courses. There are resources like some videos and tutoring sessions, but a majority of the time these are not helpful. Some of the “videos” were teachers driving... Read More in their cars with children screaming in the back. With some of tutoring sessions that were online, an instructor did not show up 3/10 times. The tutoring sessions in person are only able to accommodate 5-10 people at a time. The program is incredibly unorganized and you are lucky if anyone answers an email. It can be hard having professors from Florida while you are sitting in NYS. With this said, all of the clinical instructors and lab teachers are amazing. They are so intelligent, animated, and are truly dedicated to help you learn. In addition to this, although there are issues with the program, I felt highly prepared to work in a hospital nursing setting. Compared to other nurse counterparts who have also just graduated from other programs, I feel as if I learned so much more material than them. Questions that these other graduates have are some of the questions I can immediately answer. I did feel prepared to take on a job. Along with this, the program offered many job fairs that were very helpful. The program made me so stressed and angry due to the layout and disorganization, but the lab instructors and the clinical instructors made it worth it.

This program is absolutely HORRIBLE! I spent almost $30,000 per semester to teach myself everything. The program follows a hybrid curriculum, yet there is NO actual content provided on the assigned chapters of study. Everything is self guided. No online lectures are provided, only a learning guide to correspond with the textbook. Course live session have been discontinued because students did not show up. Live sessions are recorded so that students can view them later. Otherwise, no aide or learning... Read More materials are provided unless students inquire. Clinical director WILL NOT work with you and WILL NOT care on how far you have to drive even though they can. IF YOU ARE REALLY WANT TO LEARN AND BECOME A GOOD NURSE, THEN THIS PROGRAM IS DEFINITELY NOT FOR YOU.

This is the worst program I have ever attended in my life! There are NO lectures what so ever, it is COMPLETELY self taught! Yes they offer you "resources." The resources are youtube videos that are about that weeks topic. They are not even videos that they made, just random videos that they found. They give multiple chapters of reading per week, which is what the exams are based on, while requiring TONS of busy work to complete during the week, that usually has nothing to do with what you are going... Read More over that week. They are not clear what they expect for the busy work and either don't respond to emails or are also vague when they do respond, then you lose multiple points for not doing it right. I barely passed everything even with me putting 12 hours A DAY into my work. I had a breakdown every single week crying and regretting my decision to go to Utica. They fool you into enrolling and then once your $15,000 in for ONE SEMESTER, you HAVE to finish or you wasted A LOT of money! Every student I talked to says they hate the program but at least it will be over quick.. DO NOT DO IT!

I am very happy with my decision to attend Utica College! The atmosphere on campus is very nice and I am very impressed with all of the different activities that can be done on campus. I also am very happy with the academics. I love my program and I am very happy with my professors. The professors I have had up to this point are always super helpful with everything, whether it be personal or school related. They are aways just there to make sure you are getting the best experience you possibly can.... Read More The only downfall to this campus is the parking. There should be more parking for residential students. Overall, I am very happy I chose Utica College.

This ABSN program at Utica College is a very rigorous program however, it does an amazing job at preparing intelligent and empathetic nurses. Accelerated programs are not for everyone hence the mixed reviews. At this time the first graduating cohort from the Miramar campus has a 100% NCLEX pass rate. The school provides MANY resources and the professors are all extremely helpful. Every time I have reached out to my professors for assistance or clarification they answered within hours, sometimes within... Read More the same hour. They do an excellent job of providing tutoring and peer guidance for students who want or need it. If you are self-motivated and passionate about the nursing profession I would highly recommend this program.

Let me start my saying this is an accelerated program, many complaints from fellow students are just frustrations, people who did not utilize ALL the resources provided. Our program directors advised us of the difficulty in the program, we were advised of the scheduling, and clinical hours. Faculty is available after class hours, but many of my cohort don't utilize the services provided. Professors have online review sessions, tutors are available and when used provide great insight and assistance... Read More with material. I would encourage those who are interested in Nursing ask to speak with a nursing professional on or at the campus to get a true picture of what this program offers, admissions is good but not as knowledgeable about content. As previous reviews have stated, they are requirements including pre reqs, and a bachelor's degree...the best advice I can provide is make sure your A&P is more recent (5yrs no older) or take a refresher course as online/hybrid programs rely on us raising our hands when they need help but also that we have an understanding of the material from pre reqs, those who don't will struggle.

Fraud, the first word that comes to mind. As far as the St. Pete accelerated BSN program, you are enticed to come here and assisted every step of the way during the admission process. Once you're in, it's a sham. Everyone in this program already has a bachelors degree and met the prereqs. and admissions standards to get in, yet the transfer, withdrawal, and failure rate of each cohort is very high. As them for those stats. If you are o.k. with teaching yourself, never interacting with any instructors,... Read More receiving little support in your online courses, getting zero support from your " success coach", minimal clinical experience,and dealing with staff from financial aid and administration that offers no assistance, then good luck. If you pose a question to financial aid about, for example, your loan money being withheld,you will get a canned response back quoting school policy. Also, because most students here have heavily borrowed to come here and have relocated from other parts of the country. ,they will do ANYTHING to succeed,including cheating which Utica cant quite figure out how to resolve. What kind of nurse does this school produce? I have transferred to a different nursing school in Florida and the comparison of education ,learning and clinical prep is night and day. Not funny, but I run into my countless Utica friends who are here as well. Check into the massive staff turnover over the past 2 years as well. This place is a sinking ship. Run dont walk to a different college.

Okay, first let me start off by saying I NEVER in my life gave a bad review. I'm the type of person who notices I overpaid at the store, and I'd rather go home than deal with the fuss, just to give you an idea. With that said, I went into this program very optimistic, ready to prove all of the bad reviews wrong..boy, was I in for a surprise! This program has been nothing short of a nightmare from the start. Overpriced, understaffed, NO resources, there isn't even a success coach at the St. Pete site.... Read More There are a FEW instructors who are OK. However, the good employees don't last long. There is a revolving door for instructors at this school. The rest of the instructors are moody and have attitudes. Get ready and start learning how to kiss ass now if you enroll! They will FAIL you if you don't. There was a misunderstanding in my clinical section, and instead of the clinical instructor addressing the issue, she decided to fail the student because she disagreed with her! If 60K sounds like a good price to teach yourself, kiss ass, and have a migraine from the chronic disorganization, and lack of communication- than this is the perfect program for you! My only regret is not being able to time travel into another program!!!

Don't be fooled by reviews by bitter applicants or students who did not take this course seriously and failed out. This is a difficult program but so are all accelerated BSN degrees. There has been a shift in focus in St. Pete and with a whole new group of instructors focused on providing a relevant and effective nursing program. If you are self-motivated and committed to hard work you will find an opportunity for success. Yes, you will have to study most of the day. Yes, you will have a demanding... Read More schedule that limits your social life. However, you have faculty and tutors for support if you need it and at the end you have a career path with endless opportunities for growth and variety!

This program is hard. Very hard. I have a bachelor's degree in biology but this program teaches you how to think VERY differently! You cannot just do what you always have done in other programs. Nursing is different. Think about how you will need to act in the ER. You'll need to know how to think critically and act fast. It's not about memorization - there are several right answers - but you need to figure out what's the right answer for the patient in front of you. Don't try and work, have a life... Read More and do an accelerated program. You get in 16 months what takes 4 years in a traditional program. So it's going to be hard and you won't have a life. Think about it and you'll see that those who are unhappy had unrealistic expectations.

PLEASE LISTEN. I was enrolled to start in 2 weeks and read all of these review but went with my heart. I was so wrong. We just got a email from the director that we have to do some background check for 170.00. While the money isn’t the issue when I called or emailed no one can tell me anything about this. Here is the best part they will tell the class at the add/drop date on next steps for the background check. We all know this is so they can take our money. The disorganization of this program is... Read More real. Also I work for a local hospital and asked my boss if the background check was needed to work locally and she answer no. Utica only wants your MONEY they could care less about their students. I have just sent my email to withdraw and feel a big weight off. So glad I didn’t waste my time and money. STAY AWAY.....