Chamberlain University

I received my BSN through this school and had no complaints. Now I am in the middle of earning my FNP and I have nothing nice to say. The department to approve the clinical sites is in no way accessible to the students. They have my site approval on hold for the second semester in a row for no reason. It is the same site that I was going to and the site is approved for future semesters. I have called multiple times. Spoken to multiple people that just say, "We cannot do anything, give them a few... Read More more days." I have sent multiple emails with no responses. The more frustrating aspect is even the Chamberlain admission team cannot contact the department that is supposed to approve my clinic site. The department that needs to approve the site put on their hold that a contract needs to be renewed. 1) The email they sent also stated that it didn't need to be renewed until June and I could enroll as long as I was able to get my clinic days in before the renewal date. 2) My clinic site states the contract was valid through 2024. 3) The practicum page states that the contract for my site has been approved. So what is the hold for? 4) Chamberlain sent an email stating that there was a way to register even though the clinical site was not completely finished. However, none of the advisors will use this option. This same exact situation happened last semester and I was not able to enroll. This is going to put me back even further. I am not usually a person who leaves bad reviews, but I am desperate to get their attention.

The first year was great. You learn at your own pace and can still work full-time. Some professors truly care and others are nonexistent. As many others have written NR509 was incredibly challenging. There are two exams that cover an immense amount of material that just can not be learned entirely in 4 weeks. The study guide is vague and essentially pointless. I submitted practicum information early and on time. Some even a year in advance. ELC did not finish the completion of my clinical site approval... Read More on time and when I tried emailing them or creating a support case, no one responded to me. I waited over the phone for an hour and finally got a hold of someone from academic advising to whose response was that ELC was "overwhelmed" and all calls were being deferred. I was told there was nothing to do but wait. The semester started on Sunday, I had to be at my clinic on Tuesday. I hadn't heard from anyone and as a professional student, I let my clinic site know that my school fell behind and I wouldn't be able to complete my hours this term. It was embarrassing and incredibly frustrating. Chamberlain finally approved my contract on a Wednesday of the first week without contacting me and automatically registered me. It is too late! How can someone register you midweek?? Discussion posts are due and I already let my clinic site know about what happened. I had to call ELC and they made it seem like it was my personal decision to drop from NR511. Please, please save yourself the headache and the unnecessary drama. FNP school is hard enough. Select your school wisely before choosing Chamberlain.

Steer clear of this school, I wish I would have done my research for this school. The academic support advising is a joke and I can never get ahold of financial aid office. I wanted to drop out of this school as soon as I began because there is no structure whatsoever with classes and the instructors rarely get back with you. This college is a joke and I wish I would have never applied here for my Master’s in Social Work. I am currently in the process of dropping out, but I need to get ahold of financial... Read More aid services to help me with this process, which is going to take a miracle due to not answering any phone calls.

This school is horrible. The environment for the first few classes is great and very easily manageable even if you double up on classes and work a full-time job. Something changes once you enter NR 509, things just get terrible. No one answers the phones for experiential learning coordination(ELC)to help coordinate contracts with school and practicum sites. They are so slow at getting back to you to tell you that you are missing things to the point that many people I know have had to take time off... Read More of school due to contracts not being made in time by Chamberlain due to their own fault. I graduated early and avoided sitting out any term because I made effort to keep my clinical site the same as much as I could and to always call the ELC right after our midterms and call them daily until they do their job. With the support of family, friends, and my own discipline I somehow managed to crawl out of this hell of a school. I understand that grad school is supposed to be challenging and encourage hard work ethic and discipline. I am not complaining about any of that. I graduated with a 3.6 GPA( IT should have been higher but it is what it is)I am complaining about this school's lack of communication skills and lack of professors communicating with students even though you have emailed them multiple times about issues with I human. They make you complete so much busy work that I don't understand how you actually learn anything during your time there. A school should support a student's educational journey and be responsive to any efforts to make sure students are able to graduate on time and have the right resources to be successful even after graduating. Instead, they completely ignore you, never offer you the right information, and hope you fail so they can make money off of you having to repeat a class. I never repeated a class but know of many who sadly had to. The way the school is currently set up is if you don't call to make sure they do their job you won't start clinical on time. If you don't bring things up to the dean due to professors not communicating no one will get back to you. If you ever challenge a grade because too many points were taken off many times they will retaliate and make sure they grade even harshly next assignment without any good reason to do so. My advice is if you are looking for a grad school avoid online schools altogether. I have heard similar stories about most online FNP schools and I personally regret ever going to one. I am so happy I graduated and I survived. I went through a lot of unneeded mental stress and saw many of my friends struggle and even fail due to how unrealistic some assignments like I human were. Despite signing a petition against I human with over 200 signatures and submitting it to the dean they still did nothing to look at what the issues were that we were having and told us to tough it out. I never got points back even though the head faculty said we would on I human. when asked professors they straight out refused to even acknowledge those emails and ignored them completely. This school will employ faculty who will ignore students asking questions and wanting to learn. I had 3 professors who did this to me during my time at Chamberlain after NR 509 Please save your sanity and money and put it towards a better school where you will actually learn something and feel supported. Do not be fooled by how easy it is early on in the program. It's a way to trap students because once you are in super deep with this school you are stuck with them. You can not transfer. If you only took one or two classes with them it may not be too late. Some schools will accept those classes. This school is the worst. If someone told me this I would have never attended this school. Also if you are reading this and feeling overwhelmed. Please don't stress too much. Invest in a review course. You will learn way more from investing in a review course than you ever will from this school. If you can I recommend you do this before starting clinical's w/ chamberlain because you won't have time after you start clinicals. Keep your head up and know you are worthy of being an FNP. You just need the right resources and tools. If Chamberlain can't do this for you which they aren't do it for yourself. Invest in a review course early and you will survive. In the meantime, good luck everyone. This review was posted to educate future students to think twice before entering this school and not to discourage students who are stuck. I mean I successfully graduated so it's possible but No student should have to go through what we did for the March 2023 class.

I’ve had my ADN for 4 years and decided to get my BSN during the pandemic since I had more time at home. I was very anxious and worried that I was getting into a big mistake based on the reviews, but I loved it! All my ADN credits transferred. I got my BSN in 10 months taking 2 classes at a time each 8 weeks, except the first 8 weeks to test it out. In the end the program cost me about 15k but I got 3500 plus book reimbursement from my work place as well as a good amount back on my tax return. I... Read More worked 25-36 hours per week, and it was very manageable. I highly recommend!