Galen College of Nursing Reviews

"To be honest I’m not even sure when I am graduating from this school anymore. They are trying to block my graduation because apparently they think some students should not graduate so they can keep the NCLEX pass rates high and block the students they think won’t pass. Last semester they switched clinicals from once per week to twice per week. Now they are choosing clinical sites and they’ve enrolled me in a 2 hr away clinical while working full time. If you actually want a degree, choose a different school. They make all these promises when you are applying in and then it’s the complete opposite. They said they had clinical sites close to me. When in fact there was only 1 and they split away from Galen when I started. I was fortunate enough that they accepted my other credits from another school but others weren’t that lucky. Just stay away from this school at all costs!Read Less"

"I see that someone using my name has written a terrible review for Galen. I DID NOT WRITE THAT POST. I had an excellent experience with Galen. Their communication is lacking in some areas but overall felt that I was VERY prepared for NCLEX and the world of nursing."

"I would say me personally if I knew what I know now. I would have never picked this school. i’m currently attending and finishing a course but as soon as it is done. i’m taking the lost of money I spent in this school and leaving. the program is designed to failed students at first they tell you a bunch of promises and they don’t even keep any of them. first of all I was told we was able to pick our clinical sites and when you do. they just chose a random location far away and sent you and then they refused to give you a reason. The tests are on paper and scantron for a such expensive school it shouldn’t be like that. I barely was able to read the paper test because of the printing. You CANNOT review your exam because they use the same exam every quarter. They claimed that they had opened lab till 6pm it’s a LIE. the open lab prof only here 9am-12pm basically the time you’re in class and he’s barely there at the time you show up you have to search the building for him or he doesn’t show up because of he’s doctor appointments. The medsurge prof one particular for bridge doesn’t even know what is on the exam herself always telling us to read the book and tell us oh you should focus on this and that and nothing she says focus on is on the exams so it’s a trick. THEY’RE Trying to fail you. Retaking the course is more money for the school. There is no study guide, no assignment to help boost Up your grade. ONLy 4 exams which are 25% of your grade which are so confusing. and a dosage test. if you fail dosage you failed the course, if you fail Cpe, you fail the course, If you fail ATI you fail the whole course. If you don’t have a 74 in the course you fail the course. They also do not round if you missing a point. IF you happen to choose this school GOOD LUCK TO YOU. I didn’t see those reviews until after I was already in the school I had high hopes until I realized nothing was how I was told and looked to see if I was alone then I found the reviews and i’m warning you guys that is thinking of this school.Read Less"

"The school is out to make money. You pass lecture with high grades and pass CPE but failed a dosage when asked for help they tell you that YOU SHOULD KNOW. I asked for help and tutor was booked for the entire week I needed help. I failed dosage and had a high grade in class. I am now repeating the whole course with lecture. What I don't understand is it's that you can fail one test in lecture and still pass if you pass the rest of the exams but fail one test and you failed the whole course."

"It seems like every day this school gives me reasons to not want to pursue nursing any longer. It’s over priced for a school that can’t get everything together. Every quarter there’s issues with scheduling not allowing us to be able to register due to high demand at the same time that they all have us set for registration. Clinical director faculty talks down to the students like we are children when regarding concerns with dress code when it could have easily been addressed by out instructors who care more for our education than anything. But then there’s your bad apples where instructors can not teach, when an instructor has over half the class failing… why are they still allowed to instruct? Not to mention they think it’s just another job not that they’re preparing the nursing profession next graduates. They have made faces regarding that they would never help students clean up patients, and come in go out of class as they please, have no idea what units we are on in class. The clinical setting is just sitting at round tables doing head to toes every two hours and giving a couple PO meds once out of your entire quarter. If I could leave I would but they make it to where you credits do not transfer so you’re too far in to quit and lose all of you hard work and time teaching yourself.Read Less"

"Galen College of Nursing Austin Campus is horrible! This college is more concerned about money than actually teaching students and assisting them in earning the proper credentials to further their careers in nursing. First, they are way overpriced! Second, the instructors are unprofessional and disinterested in student success. Most of the time they can't even answer questions! They make you feel uncomfortable when you ask for assistance. Third, the exam and grading policies are unfair. Students aren't allowed to review their exams and "glitches" in their system have caused student grades to be changed several times. After an exam I was told that I couldn't review my exam because it could lead to cheating. Really? The tests are given via scan tron! I witnessed a decrease in my grade and other students grades mysteriously increased. This makes me feel all of this college's practices are sketchy and biased. Last, you can never get any real help from administration. No one answers the phone, you have to literally chase them down to get assistance. I second guess my decision to enroll in this school. I beg others to look deep before enrolling in this college. I think their accrediting agency needs to do an audit.Read Less"

"This school is predatory and misleading. They will lie to you just to get you to sign. Teachers are unprofessional and extremely rude. Clinicals are unorganized. You are better off going to a college instead of this school. I wish someone warned me before I attended."

"These teachers are unprofessional. You can’t take them seriously. Sometimes I feel they don’t want some of us to be successful. The one professor has a mean look on his/hers face. It’s very hateful. I will never recommend anyone going to any campus. I see a lot of bad reviews about a lot of the colleges, and other areas. Apparently they all must work about alike. They want your money not your success. This school is a big joke."

"This college is setup for you to fail. Communication is horrible. They give you nothing to study, you learn on your own. The main office no one ever answers and if you fail a class for something out of your control they push you out, so all that they want you to succeed is trash. Horrible school, turn the other way and choose another college."

"If I could score them lower I could. It’s designed to make you fail, they do not teach at all what is on the test. It’s about tricking you not about your knowledge. The skills assessments are completely unrealistic. The teachers don’t teach, instructors don’t instruct, nobody works in the front office, registration is a nightmare. If you work they will tell you to stop, the program is ungodly priced and they don’t even teach. Go anywhere else it’s a horrible school."

"Do yourself a favor and do not attend Galen. Instructors don’t care whether you pass or fail. No one willing to work with you. Administratively it’s a disaster. All they want is your money. Save your time and hard earned money and apply to a different school."

"This school is a joke. They try to encourage you by saying you can work full time while doing their class work because they have a "flexible" program. Nothing could be further from the truth. They assign you what they want to and you had better make your schedule work around it or you will be dismissed. You basically teach yourself through their "modules" on a computer. You will be lucky if you have a clinical assignment in the SAME STATE you are attending."

"I still attend here and I am HIGHLY disappointed. I feel like the teachers do not even feel confident in what they’re teaching. Every exam for every Galen campus are the same, you don’t get your test back afterwards to “prevent cheating” and we can not review it afterwards. This is frustrating because we can’t see what questions were thrown out and for what reason. Honestly, this school cares mostly about making money and little on your education. There’s 600 pages to read for a test and we can’t get any sort of study guide other than the professor telling us to read the book. It’s also frustrating that your professor doesn’t write the exams, they have exam writers. I would never recommend this school.Read Less"

"I am highly satisfied with the RN to BSN online program at Galen College. My company paid for my entire degree minus book rentals, so I can not comment on the financial aspect. That being said, I would pay out-of-pocket for this degree at this college. I feel the instructors are very engaged in the online courses. They give constant and constructive feedback. My student support liaison has been very helpful and responsive as well. I like that the courses are 8 weeks. I do stay pretty busy but I like that I can take more classes in a year to finish my degree faster. The content in the courses are relevent to my job and what I want to do in the furture. I find the lectures and interactive presentations engaging. It's very easy to succed in these courses if you put in the effort. I started in May 2021 and graduate in October 2022 and have no complaints thus far. After a baby break I plan on completing my MSN here.Read Less"

"There is not one bad review on here from a student who graduated. Grads left great reviews. By and large, Galen students expect to roll into class and have the teacher hold their hand through it all, but that is not the way adults should function, regardless of how much they paid for school. It's important to do the work on your own and not expect the teacher to spoon feed new material to you every time you walk in. This is an accelerated, difficult program. Take initiative, read the material before coming to class so that the lecture is a supplement of what you've already studied and you'll be just fine. I have had zero problems with Galen. The instructors are great, the campus is great, and the material is appropriately paced and as difficult as one would expect.If you choose Galen, or any other nursing school, be prepared to do work. You'll get as much or as little as you want from the program. I'd highly recommend Galen to any motivated student who is willing to roll up the sleeves and work hard!Read Less"

"This school is insanely unorganized and unprofessional. God forbid you ever have an administration issue, it’s like they haven’t worked a day in their lives. You call the school, either no one answers or they send you to 10 different people. Ridiculous."

"Some of The staff at Galen college in Pembroke Pines branches is very rude. They don’t have no customer service skills when you email them you have to begging to get an answer back.they pretend like they going to help you when they are not.the way they respond to you give you a sense how much they hate their job.this is very sad to deal with people like that."

"I came to the school with 7 years of nursing under my belt. I scored a 140% on the inertance test which they told me was the highest they had seen. In the recruitment process I was told that they had an excellent financial aid department. That was there first lie! Their financial aid consisted of one person who did many other jobs, their idea of financial aid was food stamps, welfare, and Pell grants witch you can automatically get at any school. 2nd lie is that they do everything they can to ensure your sucess! It is quite the opposite they have jeopardy test every semester that have a semblance of nursing but has absolutely no practical application in real life modern nursing. So! you can have an A in the class but if you do not pass their jeopardy test, they do not let you take your finals and kick you out. Oh... but you can pay a fee to reapply and retake the class you already had an A in.! For your clinicals you supposedly have three tries to get it right. No! you are stopped and failed " for a plethora of stupid reasons that have nothing to do with the clinical, without an honest try two of the times and if you're lucky you get one honest try. Just try to drop a class within the first 3 days for a full refund. you have no control over registration, you take the classes that they sign you up for and if you try to drop, they delay and tell you that you are past the drop date, so you don't get any refund. they also charge you 4 times the state colleges rates making you borrow extra private loans to continue even if you have the GI bill it does not cover it all. Galen college is about pumping the student for every cent they can squeeze out of you and then kicking you to the curb. They lie in recruitment telling you 95% pass the state boards, The truth is 99% of students do not even get to the state boards, so their actual graduation rate it extremely low, maybe 1% and those who graduate have to reapply many times and end up with 100k to 150k in private student loans to finish up their degree. Being in nursing for over a decade I have met thousands who have started going to Galen with hope in their eye and only 1% or less graduate from this college. So if you really want to go to Galen College of nursing just remember the failure rate is higher than Navy Seals Training! I literally know more successful Navy Seals graduates, than Galen College of nursing graduates! Good Luck!Read Less"

"I honestly would not recommend Galen to anyone. The program itself was extremely unorganized, the instructors consisted mainly of a lot of nurses who could not get jobs anywhere else and the entire experience was frustrating from the quality of learning to the financial aid department. I basically taught myself the entire way and never formed one meaningful relationship with any of the instructors no matter how hard I tried. All of the exams are the same for every single campus, meaning the Louisville campus takes the same exams that the Tampa and San Antonio location takes and so on. For this reason, they do not go over exams with you, and teachers literally teach to pass the exams; which they usually don't know any of the rationales for the information on there themselves. They absolutely do not value students' opinions on ANYTHING, and will claim they care but never do anything to change. My entire time at this school we mentioned how we did not learn anything in the pharmacology course and were always told "it's okay, you'll get more of that in your later nursing courses."..... so what was the point in taking the course in the first place if that was the case? Nothing this school did made any sense, it was so clearly for profit, and nobody cared about anything. It's a joke of a school and there's no wonder they have a reputation of being a joke. Spend your money anywhere else for school. I don't think I've ever written a review for anything in my life before but this school....deserves this 100%.Read Less"

"Completed the bachelor's degree (BSN) 06/2021 in St. Pete, FL. I do not know how the other campuses are run. I had 2 job interviews before graduating and both wanted to hire me. I currently work for BayCare and will be starting ICU training in 8 months. PROs: Good education Tough Fast paced I got right in the program Regional Accredidation CONs: Expensive Disorganized at times Money driven Tough This will be long but may help to explain some things: Galen is overall a good school. A lot of people become jaded because it's hard, you need a 74 to pass, and Galen does not cut much slack for those who fall behind. This weeds out the people who would fail the NCLEX. However, I know many a person who went through tough times during school and the school worked with them to pass. You get 2 failures throughout your program, after the second one you may petition to the board on why you should be able to continue. Galen is expensive; between $35,000 - $63,000 depending on transfer credits from another college. If money is an issue (like you can't acquire loans or grants) I suggest going to a community college to get your ADN/ BSN. Galen quarters are 3 months instead of 5 and there are no breaks longer than 2 weeks (I liked this because being in school longer sucks). There will be new teachers and experienced teachers, but that's many places. I have talked to people at other nursing schools so here's the deal - NURSING SCHOOL IS HARD. NURSING SCHOOL IS A MESS. NO SCHOOL HAS THEIR S**T TOGETHER. Thems the facts. Every medical program has its messes, but students graduate from the program regardless. Education - what you learn in class will be on the test (for most classes) and if you apply yourself then you will most likely pass. Know all your test/ due dates and make study friends. Friends are what get you through school. For BSN students, there will be papers and projects, follow the rubric to the letter and you'll get As for days; Labs - can be a disorganized mess, but always get done and I never had any real issue completing my CPEs whether online or in the class. Med math is easy. Galen did a good job at preparing me for CPEs and I carried those skills to the real world. I recommend going to open labs to get skills ingrained in your brain because you will use everything you learn in lab. Clinicals - unless your school is well established with a hospital system, trying to set up clinicals will always be a mess. Some classes will be screwed over while other classes will reap benefits. There will always be students who get f***ed over by clinicals no matter the program or school. Be prepared to drive up to 2 hours from your home to make clinicals and always make it there on time. You get one missed clinical day and that's it. FL nursing school policy is to have X amount of hours in clinical for each student. Galen does not set up extra clinical days, therefore you can only miss one clinical day a quarter. I had a mixed bag for clinical instructors but if you put forth effort they will make your clinical as enjoyable as possible. Generally clinicals suck because no one wants to be there and they last for what seems forever. My 2 cents is to ask lots of questions, get your head to toe assessments down pat, learn your drugs, and go to as many codes/ rapids as possible. You'll learn a lot that way and will be far better prepared for real nursing. NCLEX PREP Galen tests are hard. There are 3 types of test takers. Those who just get nursing questions, those who read every line of every page, and those who read half then chant "Cs get degrees." Galen is harder than the NCLEX and prepared me well for it. All of my Galen friends passed first try and I've yet to talk to any one from Galen who has failed the NCLEX. If you are a B student or above at Galen then you are likely to pass the NCLEX. Galen also does ATI which is a curveball when you first take it. You get 2 tries each quarter to pass, otherwise you rollback. JOBS Galen is HCA owned, hence the drive for money. Galen drives people to work for HCA. All clinicals are at HCA facilities, job fairs are mostly HCA, and I still get emails about HCA hiring events. Typically, if you ask a nurse who works at an HCA hospital about what it's like they shake their head and tell you to work somewhere else. Not all HCAs are like this but it's a risk one takes when applying. That being said, a jobs a job and Galen will help you get a job quickly around graduation time, granted it will be HCA. TEACHERS This is for shout outs - Professors Morgan, Horn, Riviera, Land, and Coughlin for all your help. TL:DR Galen provides good education but is expensive. If you're not strapped for time go to a community college program to save money. If you want a faster paced program and can handle the heat/ afford the price then Galen is fine to go to. Just be prepared to work. "During nursing school if you're married you'll get divorced, if you're single you'll find love, and if you don't believe in JC you will by the end of this." - Professor Riviera, 1st day of labRead Less"