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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and future advance practice professionals
This Review is for the Online AGNP-FNP program:
The program is 24 months or more program depending on the track you choose and can be longer based on the time you take to complete clinicals or if you need to make changes due to life.
Lecture:
The school seem to lack the organization and structure needed for advance degree program. You will have a classroom professor, clinical professor along with a lead professor (whose... Read More lectures is the one being used to teach the class and who you are referred to if you find issues with lecture information) but if anything outside of the lectures power Points or exam content arises you have to go through the nursing Dean. The teacher who is assigned as the classroom instructor is just there, they do not teach, they refer you to the lead or the Dean for issues with classroom content or anything that you would have to deal with that could impact your class. There are like a facilitator-that is it. They might have a checkpoint meeting with you if they facilitate the clinical portion as well. So, in short, in one class you can have 4 or more professors/facilitators to communicate with and at any time and all can be messaging you and sometimes about the same thing.

Clinical:
You are finding your own preceptors and if you live in areas where availability of medical preceptors is low and you cannot get to a larger more affluent city that have access to a larger healthcare network and find preceptor, you will have a problem or be delayed in graduation. You must be will to drive or fly to another region as in my case.
If you cannot find your own preceptor there is clinical coordinator that does try to help and real kind and understanding. But please be prepared to fork out an additional $3000 for paid preceptor services on top of the 6000 or more for fees in the semester depending on year. If you are in a later or earlier year might be lower or higher because fees increase without notice. I will give the preceptor service I used credit, they were expensive, but more organized and efficient than the program I am in. I never had to ask for items twice.
You are not going to know if clinical site is approved until you begin class, even if you secure one prior to class beginning. This can delay you to 2 weeks or more. You will have paperwork that technically should be completed at the first day of clinical, but you will have to send the paperwork to the preceptor and get it completed before the paper is even signed. You will require two sets of approvals for clinical. One from the database they use for their compliance and the other clinical instructors. You cannot begin without both being approved.
Extenuating-Circumstance: DO NOT HAVE THAT WHILE YOU ARE HERE. IF YOU HAVE A FAMILY, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE SUPPORT. IF YOU WORK, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A PLAN, THIS ONLINE PROGRAM IS GOING TO WRECK YOUR MIND AND DRAIN YOU IF YOU DO NOT. THIS PROGRAM IS NOT REALLY ORGANIZED FOR WORKING PERSONS.
Let me provide context everybody's experience is different, and no two-student will have the same views, but I will say this, the negative views on here for the school cannot be discredited and if I saw them prior, I would have made another decision. But I needed flexibility and on the offset it looked like it fit the checklist. But nope. I was wrong.
I am hard working student. I work full time and go to school. Academic wise I was doing well so I did not have issues until the adult classes. I recently had a loss and endured sickness and ask for a for the extension for a later time for the final exam which was denied because per their policy my situation is not extenuating. All this while dealing with my mental with the increase balancing of work, home and school. Therefore, I had to do a withdrawal pay to retake the class.
Their policy does not have a support for student that have extenuating circumstance. It does not matter what the ads or the page says, it is interaction that speaks truth. The most supportive person on the entire faculty was one clinical coordinator for the clinical portion, and one lecture professor who had no control over the class. My advisor was most supportive, and she was part of Boundless Learning, so yes, advisor is not a direct employee of Maryville and I am glad. That was the most stable part of my experience.
Are you attending:
Yes, I paid for this out of pocket and trying to finish. I just want to be done. I have no plans of even attending graduation, because there is no pleasure sitting a listening for two to 4 hours of people talking that I do not find embody care as it relates to nursing. I found out that nursing school does not teach the compassion that nurses are expected to give.
Many schools not just this one treat students like cattle, it is just a systemized organization with money on top of the hierarchy.
Now I know school need money, true and everything as a cost, yes, but when the cost also lacks the consideration for others no matter what, that is a whole different level.
Nursing school whether undergraduate or advanced or even after graduation is like a shark tank, you better know how to swim and be able to survive or you are going to be eaten alive.

I am currently enrolled. I would recommend future NP students look at other schools before considering Maryville. Materials that are used are years old and everything is self taught. Depending on the teacher, you may be on your own. A lot of programs do not find preceptors for you but some do. I think it is important for the school to find preceptors since it will help to make sure the sites and preceptors are valid and that the student will be receiving a good education and experience that prepares... Read More them to practice. I get the feeling that Maryville just wants your money.

I would not recommend Maryville University at all. The instructors are in place to grade papers, there is no teaching, just resources you can utilize to help you learn. Very little feedback is given. I had some good instructors , but some very bad ones too. I had one instructor that continued to remind me that she was busy too, when I was requesting a timely response (24-48 hours). For the price, this education is not worth it. They take your money, throw some resources at you, then test you and... Read More hope you do well. No support is provided.

The courses are self-taught, they use the same powerpoints, recordings and tests for each semester. The instructors are hit or miss. My current instructor hasn't graded things I submitted 3 months ago. The person in charge of obtaining preceptor approval from the state board of nursing is rude and dismissive. I received an email last year that I was missing paperwork for my practicum. I contacted everyone in the nursing department and no one could tell me what I was missing. It turns out, I was missing... Read More nothing... undue stress for nothing! No help obtaining preceptors. Do yourself a favor and choose another school!

The enrollment process was simple and I was able to start classes quickly. I had considered another program and the application process was not complete in four weeks after I sent in my transcripts so I had to start over and pay another $65 application fee. With Maryville, everything was processed in about three weeks and I had a decision. It worked out for the best because Maryville is a great program and has a fantastic pass rate on the national exam. The classes are tough and you will be spending... Read More a lot of time on assignments but I feel I will be prepared when I graduate.