Rasmussen UniversityReviews of rasmussen.edu

So far, I can honestly say that this school seems to hire people without prior experience in teaching. I had an awful professor by the name of Marc Master. He teaches marketing and boy was he a piece of work. It is a huge red flag he was boasting how many of his students tend to drop out of his class. Don't get me wrong he is very knowledgeable in what does but he is by far one of the most unprofessional individuals ever. If you do the assignment incorrectly, he will bash you during the live student lecture. I complained about him twice regarding his behavior and dropped out twice from his class just to be told he is the only professor available that teaches this class when I expressed to my student advisor my terrible experience with him. Honestly, this school has no consideration of feelings. I think it depends on your student advisor. The only person who was great to me is Mona Rae of the Illinois location. Keep in mind you will be charged the tuition even if you withdraw which is such bs. Do your research before attending here. While I do like the flexibility, some of the professors are just awful and it shows how they present themselves in the videos

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 .

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 was originally quoted one price for the program and then was charged much more than quoted. The reason given was "there is a new curriculum." Not sure why a new curriculum requires charging a third more. During covid, all classes have been online but the price stays the same. I am not receiving the same level of education as in-person classes but am still paying in-person prices. Give students a break while we struggle through everything that is happening. Reduce tuition until classes are in-person again.

I am a current nursing student at Rasmussen and I can not wait to be done with this school. The curriculum is a waste of time and money for LPN students going for their RN. Students are required to be flexible for scheduling, the school does not care about the students home or work life. Students are supposed to get schedules 4 weeks in advance when in reality you get a completed schedule days after the quarter starts. If Rasmussen wants to hold the students accountable for our attendance and actions they should do the same. Students start classes clueless about testing, classes, clinicals, and labs. The guidance counselors are typically never readily available to talk with students face to face. We pay thousands of dollars to go to a college that could care less about the students.

I do not suggest this school to anyone if you have the time to wait to go to a school that has a accreditednursing program and has the staff and time to go through material with you. This is a self-taught school with more drop outs in classes than I've ever seen or heard at other schools.

The health and wellness program didn’t meet my expectations and I was disappointed that their was so many general classes like astrology, politics class and others that were a waste of time when there should have been more health and wellness related classes like nutrition, importance of exercise, how to read food labels etc. I would never go back to Rasmussen ever and I want to make sure others don’t as well because I wasted so much time and money.

If you want to teach yourself from a book and learn no actual skills, this is the school for you! You will be well prepared for the NCLEX, but actually working as a nurse you will have no idea how to apply your knowledge.