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I have been very pleased with the RN-BSN online program through Chamberlain. The customer service is excellent and the instructors are respectful. I appreciate being able to focus on obtaining my degree without having to jump through hoops like I would have to at a traditional university. I will be graduating with my BSN in February 2017 and will be continuing on into their online FNP program. I am very excited about being able to pursue my professional career goals while maintaining my work/life... Read More balance. I love the flexibility of being able to work on school on my own time.

I believe Walden U was the best choice I made to obtain my BSN. The faculty are friendly, helpful, and return e-mails promptly. Grading is done quickly with great feedback. My advisors call to check in and make sure I am okay. I think the workload is appropriate for being a full time nurse as well. I also get a discount for working at a VA hospital and believe the pricing is comparable to other schools. Everything that was discussed by the counselor before I enrolled was accurate and the staff was... Read More very friendly. If I need to speak with my counselor I can schedule an appointment and they call me right on time. I am very happy with my decision and would recommend this school to anyone!

I chose Chamberlain because of the ease of getting enrolled and the length of the program. I completed my RN-BSN in 12 months. I actually did 2 classes a session with my last session having three courses. 2 classes is very doable but adding the third class was more demanding while working full time. I found their online format user friendly, and had only one IT problem during my enrollment, and their support team solved that very quickly. No group projects, that was a big plus for me as well. CCNE... Read More accredited. I do not know much about their brick and mortar schools, but the school in Jacksonville, FL has a good reputation with many of the hospitals in the area.

I did the RN-to-BSN program because my hospital is phasing out ADN nurses, sadly. I only had one instructor that I felt was not helpful- well, actually two: the instructor for Statistics was clueless and could not understand my requests for clarification. I had to drop the class on the 3rd day, pay $250 for the privilage and wait 3 weeks for the next class to start with the instructor that came highly recommended for his ability to teach a difficult subject. The other instructor was very hostile... Read More and quite high-strung.

The group projects were a joke. for most of my classes I was the only student (4-14 in a group) who had English as a primary language so I ended up not only heading the group, doing all research but putting together the many papers/Power Points and following up. The one time I DID complain, I got a reduced grade for not displaying "a collaborative attitude"... SEE THE HIGH-STRUNG INSTRUCTOR COMMENT ABOVE. Are you KIDDING me!!??? Seriously, if I wasn't preJUDGIDICED before this class, I certainly was after: I find it hard to tolerate those who take advantage of the American Way but fail to buy in to the concept. Some of my councellors were great- some, I could never contact.

The weekly discussion questions were an exercize in repetition, redundancy and biting my tongue: how many ways can you say the SAME THING in the same day?? Quality comments were not appreciated (some instructors did not appreciate Dark Humor and some just didn't GET IT. When faced with students who have NEVER practiced as a nurse, espousing how wonderful Nursing is, they need a reality check from those of us who HAVE wiped butts for over 20 years!) and it appeared they wanted idealistic drivil comments about how inadequate my previous education was and how incredably professional my practice would be after I attained the BSN! REALLY? I can honestly say that the 16 month experience has not improved my OWN bottom line as a nurse and all it has done is put me further into debt and estranged me from my family (time constraint-wise).

Do it if you must: but know you will have NO time for family,if you care about making A's it will make you insane to deal with students who can't spell, much less speak the ENglish language and know that it is mearly a Paper Chase (Google that term-- it applies, implicitly!).

If you are all for spending a lot of money then this is the school for you. This school admission process is tweaked in order to keep student flowing through the doors and getting money into the school. Also, dealing with tuition finances is a headache when your adviser cannot explain to you why are you being charge hundreds of dollars. Student services is also finances which is a joke. They do not have a cashier office either. All payments are made online on student portal. They do not have anyone... Read More above them to talk to and if you try to contact anyone above the adviser about issues regarding your tuition balance it will get reroute back to your adviser which can't explain where they get these numbers from. She even pulled out my charges on her screen and cannot figure out why I was being charge that. It was ridiculous ,she said if it's not paid then I won't be able to register . BEWARE for charges out the blue on account that don't add up. Also, their online classes and pre-req. courses are a JOKE! Why? because you can cheat. They will make it seem like they are all for academic integrity and make you download the student lock down browser which will prevent you from opening additional browser but we do not even use the lock down browser for online courses. So, if you have an online class you can cheat. Professor just give you 100% or 90% to make it seem like they are doing their job. I took had to retake Microbiology here since my microbiology from a community college did not transferred over and it is so much easier at Chamberlain because labs are not even compared to what you do at a community college and professor for discussion online don't even care if you copied and pasted from sites which is plagiarism. People copied from Chegg and past on discussion forum. How do I know?Because it was talked about in class. People cheated during lab exams and the professor acted like he was blinded by the sun. The study guide was the exam. It was basically memorization which can easily be done the night before the exam. College Algebra was online and you can cheat using calculators and google answers to online exams. They bend the rules here because you can retake the online algebra exam 3 times each for a better grade. You can not do that at a community college! And also this school uses ATI which ALL students get FULL POINTS on because they use quizlet to get the correct answers on 1st attempt. This school is a business school and they are all for money. Do yourself a favor and look into a public school vs a for-profit school. Also,paying $675 per credit hour is a lot so I see why they are just passing students along the way so they can get the money. Students are paying for the whole building, salary and commercials. Where else are they getting the money? They only exists because of students.They are also one of the few school that accepts dismissed students from other nursing programs because they are money hungry. That's why you'll meet students that was in previous nursing program that live in the middle of no where and commute to Chamberlain. This school is EXPENSIVE If you are starting from scratch it cost about 83K -90K for your BSN. Do yourself a favor and start at a public university or start a community college unless you don't mind the cheating and paying $675 per credit hour.

I may have admired two of the many teachers I had here. A good amount of them were rude and terrible teachers, should not be nurses or teachers. My gf went to community for nursing and I believe she received the better education wpu is expensive, the school itself had many flaws they need to figure out. Had us in class for most of the week never teaching anything even close to the exam, classes were a waste of time only that they got me to my end game. If this is the school you get into it, of course... Read More take it. If there are other options, look into them. Morris county comm has a great program I've heard. Not to mention a few other communities in NJ having a much better program than here.