Excelsior College

I waited over a year to take the final clinical exam for my nursing degree (CPNE). Once it was scheduled, it was cancelled due to COVID concerns.

During my wait to re-schedule the school lost it's ACNE accreditation. So, A lot of us are screwed on getting licensed in our home state even when we get the miserable degree because we didn't graduate from an ACNE accredited program. You can't win with this school.

Others, like us...look somewhere else, make a change in your schedule, do whatever you have to do to attend a REAL nursing school. It's the only way you'll have a chance at being taken seriously in the real world.

Waited over a year to do my cpne, traveled out of state. Failed as did everyone else that weekend.

Then they changed the requirements, version, of the test before I could retake and still had to wait over a year to retake. Ended up withdrawing four Excelsior as it was one excuse after another.

Spent over $12,000 and no RN degree! Run fast and don't make my same mistake!

Excelsior college is a SCAM!!! Everything you read about this horrible school is TRUE!!

They make you wait over a year to take the CPNE (which costs $2500 just to take the test) and then make it impossible to pass it. They lie about their pass rate, which is less than 40%.

I would NEVER have spent time OR money on a school that had a pass rate that low!!! I don't have A SINGLE positive thing to say about this institute!!!

The CPNE sucked. It took me 3 tries.

CPNE was graded in a very arbitrary manner. HATE this school. Joined the class action lawsuit about the CPNE and got $200. Wouldn’t recommend excelsior to my worst enemy.

BTW, I aced all the written exams, already had a BS degree from a REAL school, (in Health Promotion—BYU) and passed NCLEX-RN on first try. So it wasn’t a matter of not knowing the material, just the arbitrary grade of “pass/fail” for the CPNE. I hope excelsior gets sued again. Horrible, unethical, scam ‘school’.

Don’t waste your money. Go ANYWHERE else.

I’m honestly surprised Excelsior is still open. Horrible experience, horrible staff.

Made the mistake of actually going to this school. I graduated from the lower classes and was somewhat disappointed in the poor technical services and the less serviceable library ( very foreign prone articles, very little American based articles).

Since that time, the level of service for both has decreased. Tech dept refused to fix the problem with my student account, the library has gone overboard on being cheap and has mostly eliminated anyone the is an native writer. School also looks for the cheapest teachers and usually ends up with ones that have no idea of what they are doing or know the subject. In fact, the school hired an instructor who lied about their schooling, their work history, and their awards.

Instructor spent most of the class accusing everyone of plagiarism. School failed to verify the instructor, and did nothing to fix the problem.

Really wish I had gone to a different school. I am not a nursing student.

No clinical for students and intimidation than teaching. when on what so call clinical the teachers are training to fail you than see you success.

School are more likely to fail you than teaching after they fail you the person uncharged will tell to apply again and come back to retest than you will be paying thee same amount of money and wait another 9 to 11 months to retest when a site is available. you need to spend all that money for hotel air fare and take time from your work and make arrangement for your family thinking that it will finally pay offs instead you go home and just flush all that money to excelsior. I just got rip off from a school that been getting your hard working money.

the just crush your dream. worse school ever..

Cpne is basic nurse assessment. I passed on the 2nd try.

My wife signed up for this program. They like to space the requirements so they can get another year of tuition from you.

She signed up for a study program. Aced EVERY test she took. We went to Shippensburg for her practical weekend. She purchased every study aid available.

Practiced every station over and over for months. Our neighbor is a BSN that teaches nursing in Philadelphia PA. She watched her, made sure she followed every step. My wife had these down to perfection.

She passed every station for the practical exam. Then the Care Plans. That Saturday one of the evaluators failed her for not having the word “and”. The evaluator said she should have wrote “or”.

Sunday rolls around and she fails for writing “or”. This one tells her she should have written “and/or”.

For a low cost of another few grand she can retest in a 6 months. Total scam.

Please keep your eyes on your mailbox. Formal federal class action filed last Thursday, Oct.

26, 2017.

Stand with us and fight for change...weve earned our degree now lets pressure Excelsior give us our PAPER!! #Team13

Everything leading up to CPNE was decent minus the hefty fees for each theory exam....flexible and convenient for the most part. CPNE was a joke.

Failing a LPN for pulse count I found hilarious because a 3rd grader couldve cone up with better reason! Such a huge disappointment and a disgrace to my profession: Nursing.