Rasmussen UniversityReviews of rasmussen.edu

Do not attend this school by all means! wish I could rate this so-called "university' a zero. I have had the worst educational experience in my life. This place is just a diploma mill. If you are searching for a technology school- please stay away! You are not going to learn anything. I was a Cybersecurity program student and feel robbed. None of the instructors care to explain materials, tools, and advance technology. I felt like this program has been abandoned for years. The program director doesn't bother to revise or at least look at the materials presented to students and make changes. The hyperlinks embedded for additional study and reading are broken and lead to malicious sites selling fake IDs. The assignments for core classes are outdated, written poorly, with many mistakes. Even after numerous complaints to instructors and advisors nothing has been changed. It is a shame to raise tuition and not provide quality education to students. The majority of instructors for cybersecurity classes are reluctant to explain the material and assignments and don't like when students call them with questions, and overall don't care how you complete the module assignment or whether you understood the topic. You will waste your time and money at this school and learn nothing about the industry. The servers are often times down, the tools and applications are outdated, with expired licenses. You will have to wait a day or two to get in the SOT sandbox to complete your tasks. Career advisors are a big joke. They are not helpful at all. They will not care if you struggle to find a job after you graduate. If you are in the bachelor's degree program the career advisors services are useless. They will talk to you in a condescending tone and remind you that you are not the only one here needing help, so therefore they can't help. Or they will throw some general ideas like set up LinkedIn and go from there. Again, stay away at all costs! This school is not worth the price you will have to pay.

Poor unskilled student advisor, after starting a online course all the way thru finals for a semester student advisor Chelsey Positano calls me and tells me they do not reorder the background check their policy is to decline the admission WOW they should have never allowed me wasting time for the semester tons of paperwork, grants and no one feels that they are responsible to see all paperwork is in before finalizing admission terrible experience with this school .Terrible communication given by her and the school .

Not a great first experience with this school. I reached out via chat today as a prospective student and was having a conversation about different options. I don't know the chat agent's pronouns, but they were chatting with me were not friendly at all. What I find most concerning is that they responded to something I had typed into the chat box but had not yet sent. They asked me "Do you have an associates or prior college?" and I started typing this response but DID NOT send it yet, "I appreciate you answering my questions. I think I will look at other programs and then maybe come back to this one. Honestly, you have not been the most friendly or welcoming person I have talked to. That may be something you want to work on." This was sitting in my text box within the chat unsent when the chat agent responds with "Ok sorry you feel that way. I'm just trying to explain it to you so you can actually understand it. Have a great day and best of luck to you!" How on earth can they respond to a message I have typed but hadn't sent? The only answer? They are monitoring what you type before you send it. I had sent my message right after they sent their response, although I hadn't seen theirs yet when I sent mine. I had decided to take out the "Honestly you have not been the most friendly or welcoming person I have talked to. That may be something you want to work on" section because I didn't want to be rude, and sent the rest. When I noticed their response, I was baffled as to how they can already have responded to a message I hadn't sent yet, and when I replied, "Feel what way?" The agent, having been caught red handed, started typing something and then stopped and abruptly ended the chat. I will never attend this school based solely on this one shady interaction. Rude. Unethical. Dishonest. I do have screenshot and video proof of the chat conversation. If you are going to chat with this school, just beware that they will be watching everything you type, not only what you intentionally send.

Do not go to this school if you are expecting an organized, pleasant experience. Their policies favor the institution, not the students. NO flexibility whatsoever. Your schedule will NOT be released until 1-3 before the start of the quarter meaning you have to have an extremely flexible job. The technology works half of the time and things are so unorganized we "pretend" to do the care rather than actually go through it as you would in the real world. If you don't get 100% on the dosage calc tests at the beginning of the quarter you are out of luck and will not be advancing. They use ATI which works about half of the time. Only online textbooks. Raise tuition constantly. There have been 3 different deans in the 1 year that I have attended the school. The teachers are nice and advocate for the students but the management doesn't care. Not to mention you don't get access to your classes until the Monday the quarter starts, so you start out behind right away.

I only give 2 stars to give credit to the few instructors who are actually quite excellent, otherwise, this program was chaotic and disorganized. When I first started at the Bloomington Campus, it was reasonably smooth especially related to all the changes with the pandemic. Suddenly in 2021, everything changed and started to decline very quickly. Massive changes to the structure of classes, the platform, the expectations of the program - all changed to make finishing almost impossible. In the last quarter (Dec 2021), we were not allowed to see our schedules until after the quarter started which made planning difficult. Our clinical placements were up to 2 hours away. My particular site did not want students there, were terribly unwelcoming, and let us only pass medications. No real-world experience except a little time in the SIM lab. Be prepared to familiarize yourself with the appeals process - I never thought I would have to use it until I was threatened with discharge from clinical because I was asked to quarantine (BY THE SCHOOL) for having Covid symptoms. Policies are applied haphazardly. Cheating is apparently a huge issue. It seems if they cannot isolate the people doing it, the whole cohort is punished for it. I had to take one ATI exam over and was never given any satisfactory answer other than the "code was compromised". Do the research - check out the completion rate of the program and the NCLEX pass rate. The program is so expensive especially given the level of education received. I found myself mainly watching YouTube videos for concepts for the NCLEX. I felt like the school purposely threw up as many roadblocks as they could to avoid completing the program. I felt like I was fighting for my life in the last quarter to get done and I was an honor roll/dean's list student. The instructors are not allowed to make any independent teaching decisions. Everything has to run through the Deans who must get 3,000emails/daily. One instructor had not even seen the tests he was to administer as part of the class so he didn't know to best prepare us. When the test covers 20 chapters of information, over 30 disorders, and 5 weeks of accelerated material, some direction would have been nice. Buyer beware - I understand the desire to start quickly and get through quickly especially if you are an LPN with a lot of experience like me. I would have been better off waiting for the local technical/community colleges programs to accept me. The last 6 months of this program nearly broke me financially, mentally, and emotionally. The completion rate is below 40%. There is a reason for that. These credits will not transfer to another university or college. Once you in it, it's either finish or be a serious debt without anything to show for it.

I have never heard of an associates degree requiring 90 credits, it is always 60 credits. I am assuming more credits equal more money the school can make from each student. I suggest for the future.... they send over all pertinent information to the potential students up front....application, tuition rates for the school, platform used for online learning, financial aid information, etc. This gives the potential student more to think about, more questions to ask, and this lures the students closer to you in a favorable way. Do not wait for the potential student to ask for these documents. First communication should be welcoming to make the potential student experience with this University a positive one, in return they will want to know more, ask more questions, and become a part of this University. I was made to feel unwelcomed when I inquired about this school, and I lost interest. Now after reading the horrible reviews. I was right to deem this so called University unprofessional, and a waste of time. Please do not waste your time inquiring about this school.

This school is ok as long as you have money amd do not need to work for a living. They don't want you to work and are not flexible. YOU must be flexible. Make sure ALL communications are via email because your advisor can deny everything they said to you. Same with instructors. If you have kids, don't plan on mothering them. If you're an lpn. Don't plan on them counting very much of that. They do accept most of your other credits though. Just have invalid reasons not accepting lpn. Example, I earned my lpn after attending rn school multiple times until the end (I challenged the lpn boards). The lpns were in all of my rn classes. They said that rn classes are different than lpn classes. At the college I went to, they were in class with us, I told them. It doesn't matter. Its like talking to yourself. Theu want you to only be commited to school. since I have a mortgage, kids, and am a single mom that is not realistic. This is lpn bridge program is 2 years squeezed into 1 year. They said I could repeat. Long story, my mdc3 and pn 2. (I didn't attend my last lab after I knew I failed mdc3, I told my instructor and she said to wait until my kids are 18... oh, she diesnt habe kids btw abd doesn't want them. Well, 4 more years and round number 4 or 5 but who's counting?) I'm not willing to ignore my kids or lose my home just to pay a fortune to go to this school. Oh and not have a job to get money to pay gir their school.... I mean, no job is also no insurance and I take medication. My uncle died during my finals week as well. I didn't know I could've said something until this Girl said something about her friends dad died and she failed a calculation exam. Well, I guess they pick and choose? I have his obituary but I didn't attend his online funeral as I had final exams. My cousins contacted me upset so not much studying and I worked 2 double shifts before one final and had clinical in the morning the next day with the day after being the mdc3 final that I failed by one question. I was exhausted so I knew I wouldn't do well. I only had reviewed for the first exam. I should have called off they said. Ha! I only worked Saturdays and Sundays and we had exams every Sunday. I was told I should just not work. CF said they'll work with me and they have a true lpn bridge program. This school was a nightmare for me. The instructors do the best they can but the actual college is ridiculous and lie when they say that they'll work with you. I had to make up labs because they had me scheduled labs and clinicals the same days and times two quarters in a row. They refused to fix their mistakes, that's YOUR problem. Just saying, my opinion. Wish I read reviews before going here. I probably could appeal but I will just be a week or 2 behind wich is basically a month behind in their speed up class time. I feel bad for the graduates. I had better clinicals at the community College I had gone to up north. I have BAD anxiety, diagnosed. They know btw. I had my psychiatrist fill out their stupid form but it didn't matter anyway. This school is enough to stress anyone out. The online clinicals are a joke too. Omg the papers you must write even if asn not bsn. Holy nursing journal references!! Never again. I hate this school

I wish I could rate this school a zero. At the Fort Myers campus there’s so much chaos, unorganization, favoritism, instructors and deans close friends, horrible instructors(some not all) that have it out for students who question them, I’ve never heard of clinical courses having lecture online, now it is. Had a total of 4 on site clinicals for 2 clinical courses the rest were in a classroom watching videos and PowerPoints, teachers tell you know all the material so it’s easy to get overwhelmed and have no clue what to study for tests, lots of busy work with online courses. Lack of hands on training, lack of fair grading, no timely grading of communication from anyone. They just raised tuition so it’s close to 5k a quarter to teach yourself how to be a nurse and just write papers, and pass tests. You don’t learn how to work with actual patients. Covid has been here 2 years now. Why is this still an excuse. If you struggle with any nursing classes good luck finding a tutor, if there’s one available they usually have 1-2 sessions available a week and we’re always times I was in classes. If you try to go to certain instructors they belittle you, good luck going to deans they just go back to the instructors with what you said to them and then the instructor has it out for you even more. Learn apa and nothing else bc no Matter how well your paper is written content wise if your apa isn’t perfect your not getting a good grade. Don’t trust anyone. Don’t go to this school, it’s not worth the money, stress, or headache…