National UniversityReviews of nu.edu

My rating scheme with National University would be 4 stars. This has been challenging, but honestly has been fun for me. My 40+ years of experience have been my strength throughout it all.

My professors have been great, for the most part, although, some do not get back to students quickly enough. I have had a bad experience getting assistance through NU in regard to the Praxis requirement for Ed. School Counseling PPC credential. Other universities do not have the Praxis exam requirement, therefore, I was expecting NU to be more supportive in helping students pass this exam by providing resources or workshops for students. However, that has not been the case.

easy to work with my advisors and the classes being open 24 hours is huge for my scedual

When I looked in to signing up with National I was immeditately called by a staff member. Each employee has been kind and informative. Everything has been easy to follow and very streamlined. Christopher and Bob have been wonderful to communicate with.

I have entrusted my future career opportunities to the NU Strategic Communication MBA program. My trust in the management, professionals, Dean and support services is at the ultimate level of trust. My trust is based on the actions of all involved. There is none of that “constant declarations of good news” that has zero actionable follow up. I have adopted this philosophy of never baffling people with bull. Some may think me pushy when I insist on actionable plan with a specific follow up time. I know that this is my promise to my future career or employer to have “no excuses, just results”. This is not without kindness and consideration to real life situations. I am on an expressway to success thanks to all partisans to the successful completion of my MBA.

I'm a senior citizen going back to school and learning new technology and this website has been pretty easy to finagle my way around. It has a lot of twists and turns but they've made it an easy process

Excellent faculty and staff.

First of all, I think it's important to note that the different programs at NU are run by totally different people. My review is specifically about the BSN NURSING program. Before the pandemic, I took several pre-requisite science classes at NU. They were in-person classes with lab sections, and they were truly excellent classes. I had to work hard, take good notes, and I learned a huge amount that stuck with me. When I applied to the nursing program, I thought I was signing up for that quality of instruction. When I applied to the second bacherlor's BSN program at National in 2019, it had a good reputation in the community and was known to be academically rigorous and clinically challenging. That was not the experience I have had. As Covid-19 closed a lot of doors to gaining more clinical experiences, NU reacted by removing any way for us to participate in healthcare. They eliminated the externship program that I had planned to apply for. All classes were online, even after community Covid numbers decreased. We were never allowed to touch the care simulator that would allow us to practice actual procedures - all our clinical training was basically reciting a list of steps while standing next to a plastic mannequin and pointing at anatomical regions. Classes involved hours and hours of zoom, where professors read powerpoint presentations as fast as they could. Most of our professors were pretty good, but they were not allowed by the university to alter the class to improve our learning. They were not even allowed to edit their own class syllabus, not even to change a due date. Because of this, frequently we would have three different listed due dates (one from the syllabus, one from the online system where we uploaded assignments, and one verbally from the professor). The standards for our group projects were abysmal. I never got less than 100% on a single group project, and there was no mechanism for reporting a student who didn't participate or had poor skills. And EVERYTHING was made into a group project, even research papers. By the end of the program we were phoning all of them in, because we discovered that it didn't actually matter how engaging or professional the group project was. The only thing that ever lost us points was messing up APA format. You could put up a powerpoint slide that was a wall of 14-point text and simply read it off the screen, and still get 100%, with no expectation for improvement. I think I will be prepared to take the NCLEX and I will be a good nurse, but if you are not a self-motivated student it would be easy to coast through NU without actually doing any work. I will fully admit that I have gotten mostly As in every class without doing much of the reading or studying more than one day for an exam. The most stressful thing about nursing school at NU is the lack of consistency and the inability of the professors to improve their own classes by changing due dates or assignment parameters.