Fortis College Reviews of Associates in Nursing

"I have been attending this school for 6 months. I recently withdrew. I have always made excellent grades (Bachelors degree in Biology 3.9 GPA from REAL COLLEGE) This school is absurd. The instructors for the nursing program are all over the place. The SIM lab teacher is teaching material that was on the syllabus 2 weeks ago and he is testing on material we haven't covered. No point in discussing this with the DON or the President of the school because they don't care. We have taken a petition about these instructors and all we are told is that it is not the instructors it is the students and if we can't handle the nursing program then drop out. What kind of instructors or school President says that! Not all of us are wrong. This is why the NCLEX pass rate is below standard and we have heard the nursing program is on probation now. 48,000 for this degree and no one in the school cares if we pass or not. Please save your money and go to a college who supports education and strives for their students to pass the NCLEX. Don't be fooled by any of the enrollment counselors. Speak with some of the students. Look around, the halls are bare. So many of us are withdrawing and going to other schools because this is our career and we want to be trained properly. Would you want a nurse taking care of you or a loved one who struggled to pass their state test? Not me. Many of us later found out that they are not eligible for NLNAC which greatly reduces your chances of working at many of the larger hospitals in the area. Bay Care, ACH, Bayfront, etc... won't even hire Fortis Grads. I should have done my homework better before enrolling in this school. You should too. DON'T DO IT"

"this school has been awesome to me... i had one issue with one instructor since starting school in august 2012.. but the instructor was an awesome intelligent teacher.... so i didnt care how much i didnt like "her".... i deal with issues and not personalities!! and so far i havent had one issue with this school!! it is such a shame to see all the bad reviews....but if you got o school witht he mindset of im doing this for me then you will be o.k."

"It is the worst program I have ever attended. The admission department harass you to the point of restraining order level to get you in then you're on your on from there. There's an exit exam that must be passed in order to graduate that the school gives no preparation for. Then when you fail( whether missing by 1 point or 10 points) you have to repeat a whole semester of medsurg, including all clinicals, labs, sim labs, etc... even if you passed the class with an A! That A that you worked hard for is turned to an F and those clinicals, labs, and SIM labs that consumed your every waking hour get erased and turned to zeros! Then upon returning to do the walk of shame to now join the class that was once behind you, you're told you have to attend tutoring once a week...not tutoring for the exit exam you failed but for the medsurg class you passed...Ummmm, can anyone tell me what's wrong with this picture? So, after suffering the humiliation of not graduating and having to now sit in class day-by-day with those students that just threw you a pre-graduation party weeks earlier, you're now told that you're all out of financial aid and now have to pay out of pocket for you're failure, with no guarantee that at the end of these four months and $3,300, that you'll be passing the hesi this time around either. You go to your Dean of Nursing with concerns about the situation and are told that you're worrying over nothing or that you only have yourself to blame because you apparently didn't prepare enough. Then to add insult to injury, you get told, "the reason the school's nclex pass rate has fallen below their standards is because all the cheating the students are doing, not because the program is lacking". I am living in a nightmare with no end in sight. I've been working in the health field all my life, and am normally a very cheerful person, looking for the fun in everything( a smile a day keeps the blues away) but this program has broken my spirits. I have to fight for the will to get out of bed each day to face the horrible, terrible, monster I call...FORTIS COLLEGE"

"This is my second review i am writing of fortis college COLUMBUS OHIO CAMPUS ONLY!!!!! listen people you get out what you out in as a student!!!I put in 100% of y effort and i am bringing in 2 A's and a B this semester....last semester i had all A's.... IF U TRULY WANT TO BETTER YOUR EDUCATION AND CAN IGNORE THE NEGATIVITY AND DISCOURAGING ATTITUDES OF OTHER STUDENTS THEN I ADVISE ANYONE NOT TO ENROLL IN ANY SCHOOL!!!make shure u have ur ducks in a row in ur personal life and you should be able to succceed. of course with life comes barriers and obstacles we must overcome.....in order to be successful!!! it is only the strong willed and determined that will make i thru!!!As far as fortis college columbus campus only...yea i totally give my approval rating to anyone that decides to go to this school.....keep a positive attitude study hard and u shall succeed. the instructors are knowledgable and are always willing to help out....admissions department was great.... i have not utilized career services so i cannot give my opinion regarding them.Class work is not easy but then again is not supposed to be is is supposed to make u study..... nursing administration is great. the d.o.n. is awesome. and all other ancillary staff has been excellent as well. i do not particularly care for one person on the nursing staff..but thats my OPINION there are alot of other students that do care for her and like her alot. the school is clean and neat as well.Fortis college columbus has definitely impressed me!! i read all the bad reviews and still choose to enroll and my outlook has been excellent!!! as well as my experience. im soooooo glad i did not let negativity deter me away from my goal!!!!To everyone out there that has had a terrible experience with ANY fortis college in ANY city other then COLUMBUS OHIO CAMPUS come to columbus ohio campus and u will be very pleased!!"

"I know that you have to take some bad with the good. But when your DON is Bad what can you do. Fortis in Norfolk has such a high turnover with teachers its not good for the students. Whats worse is a teacher who can't teach and doesn't care to teach. You know at most schools when you fail a course you have the opportunity to repeat, well at Fortis this is not the case. If you fail two classes you will be dismissed from the program. I knew a girl who was pregnant who didn't do well in Maternity or Peds and she was dismissed from the program. Thats only because the DON decided to make them two separate classes instead of one class with two parts like it was years before. The teachers for these classes were HORRIBLE! The President of the school will do nothing for you. Then they tell you that they are accredited by the NLNAC. They are not accredited by them at all. I'm just glad I made it through with the help of the teachers that left the school but still took time because they cared about helping me learn."

"Ms G and her staffs are the best. Nclex passing rate 100%. Ms Gibbs always there to help students. Her H and Nclex reviews training are the best. Thank you Ms G. We all wish you trhe best. And students 2012"

"I agree with J.. I just recently started Fortis College and i read all the "bad" reveiws on this website and still chose to enroll. I am quite impressed! You get out what you put in and so fer i put in 100% of effort this first semester and got out STRAIGHT A'S. Now grant it there is one instructor that i dont quite understand or like.... but this instructor is a great instructor...and besides im not there to like anybody..im there the get a quality education and that it what i have been getting thus far...i did not get any stpend money back but that was because a couple things i had to do in order to start class(i.e. immunizations) i could not afford so i utilized their voucher program and had the services charged to my account. But as of yet i have had no real gripe about this college. I am only speaking of my experience with fortis collge-columbus ohio campus. i have not utilized career services so i cannot speak on them but the couple times i did talk to them they seemed to be ready and willing to ASSIST students as much as they can. admission was great.... if you do decide to go to fortis college columbus ohio campus please do not let all the negativity deter you.... go to school and put your all into it focus on your studies and be serious and i guarantee you will be quite pleased with this school. I sure am. im so glad i came to this school. the nursing program i am in is accelerated..... but i am a fast learner and so far has had no problems with that either."