Any feedback on Miami Jacobs ?

Heavenly4505 · Oct 18, 2009

I would be cautious about attending Miami Jacobs. I did not attend, but I looked at them and toured the school before attending my current school. First of all, they are on "provisional accreditation," which means that they had FULL accreditation and then lost it for doing something wrong. It also means that they must fix what is wrong within a specified time limit or the Board of Nursing can yank away their accreditation completely.

Miami Jacobs is every bit as expensive as Hondros, if not more so. The total tuition for MJ was around $20,000 for the LPN program. I think with books and uniforms, it was slightly more. I would not go to this school, but that is just my opinion.

dxbtocvg · Oct 19, 2009

OH WOW, THATS GOOD TO KNOW!!!!

I was almost on he verge of deciding in their favor........do you have any idea at all about their instructors?

someone pm-ed me that while their clinicals were not the best, their instructors were not too bad, i had no idea what to make of this comment.??????

Heavenly4505 · Oct 19, 2009

I know nothing about the quality of the instructors or the clinicals, since I did not actually attend. However, I just did not have a good feeling about the school in general. That is why I decided to attend elsewhere. Ultimately, it's you (your cousin's) decision, and you have to do what feels best and right to you. Good luck.

nurse2be2009 · Oct 21, 2009

I attended mjcc dayton campus, and i would not reccomend it, although when i graduated, it semmed to be getting better. The instructors were awesome, but the school itself is all about the money.

mjm1979 · Oct 28, 2009

Hi! I attended Miami Valley Career Technology Center (MVCTC) and highly recommend it. The school itself is in Clayton but they also offer classes at the Dayton VA hospital, which was closer for me than Clayton. They are not a "For Profit" school. It is a career center and the adult division offers the PN program. I graduated a year ago and the tuition at the time was about $12,000. You do have to spend about $300 for uniforms. IV certification is taught in the program too. It's a very good school with a very good reputation.

dxbtocvg · Oct 28, 2009

Thanks..did you have to switch between their various schools o you stay at one campus?

She was looking at their springboro campus..

SVEverest · Jan 25, 2011

I know it's a little late as this is an older thread, but I figured if I post something it may help newer students make a better decision than I did... so here goes.

I chose Miami Jacobs Springboro. The advisor seemed great, the "financial assistance" they offer seemed great. I was super excited to be starting nursing school. I was told I wouldn't have to pay a dime until I graduated. I was also told that they would be flexible with me having a husband working in West Africa and my father having late stage 4 Melanoma, who was under my care, as well as my toddler-age son. They said they work with people who have extenuating circumstances. They also said it was accredited and the school has a zero tolerance policy on cheating, plagarism, student to student abuse, etc.

Once they get your John Hancock though, that all goes out the window. The instructors seemed to make a joke of "Nurses eat thier young" and practically encouraged cliques and out and out abuse in the classrooms! They also only allow you to make up ONE clinical, even though they send you up to 150 miles out of your way (a 75 radius around the school). The clinical instructors are a JOKE! They'd cut our STATE MANDATED clinical days in half to go have lunches and hang out with some of the students. I was left by myself with another student while we were providing patient care, unsupervised, at a clinical site because they left more than 2 hours early to have lunch, and, we were short something like 7 or 8 clinical hours already. There was little to no guidance and when we had a geriatric patient close to death, it wasn't a respectful lesson in Nursing, it was, "Let's all gawk at him while he drowns in his own fluids." One of the students in particular THREATENED me because I was ****** at spending over $30K to go out and have Mexican. This student was drunk or hung over half the time and was downright evil to the patients. She'd bend their contractured fingers back and listen to them beg her to stop, then she man-handle them and call them "F**king wimps".

I had straight A's. I flew through my tests, got all my homework done and helped the othesr who were struggling with the math, even the horrible ones. While they made open jabs a girl who was recovering from a stroke and had an obvious speech impediment. They would rip her to shreds in front of the teachers! The teachers would even laugh at the jokes. I lost my spot in the course because I missed my one clinical and was 25 minutes late to another, and at the whims of a few of a couple of the other girls, the instructor wrote down that I was 45 mintes late and was sent home. Within two weeks of starting MJCC, I was getting bright red letters in class, along with some other girls, saying we owed our $100 a month for the "Gap" loan the school supposedly gave us. I certainly didn't sign anything like that. We were all told the same thing... everything was deferred until graduation. I wasn't allowed to finish the 2nd quarter. I had a meeting over the phone with the main person in charge of the Nursing Program, who, refers to herself as "The Dragon-lady," and she told me I shouldn't be putting my problems off on her, when all I asked was if I'd be allowed to make that clinical up. She told me a responsible Mother shouldn't be in Nursing School anyway. Excuse me? What? You directly advertise to Mothers and other Non-Traditional Students!

I'm not the only one. The school's policy is that you MUST pass ATI to pass the class. That's a fairly new rule. My cousin started the Dayton Campus not long after I started the Springboro one. In her 2nd quarter, her ENTIRE class failed their ATI's because, as it turns out, they were given the complete wrong books to use to study. The WHOLE class was failed and the school tried to force them to retake that entire quarter, out of their own pockets, of course. Not for their own mistake, but for the school's mistake. How were they supposed to pass a test they weren't able to prepare for? Seems like a great way to make a few more bucks to me. My cousin also witnessed the extreme hostility in her classes and how entertaining it was for the instructors. I thought Nurses were trying to break the "Eaters of the Young" stereotypes? Miami Jacobs encourages it!

On top of all these issues, we had a revolving door of professors. One class, we went through 3 different teachers, and our Med-Surg class, we had two different teachers because they would mysteriously disappear. Moving onto greener pastures is more like it. By the way, their idea of teaching you Med Math is by yelling at the class and telling everyone they should just know it because, "It's basic crap, people!"

Please, please, to any future students considering Miami Jacobs. DO NOT GO HERE! I'm finishing paying off the two quarters I was there and then I'm going back. I have another Cousin studying at Fortis for her RN and she seems content there. She got her LPN through Greentree and loved it. Even Ohio Medical Career Center is accredited, half the price and has nearly 100% NCLEX pass rates! Just please, avoid Miami Jacobs like the plague!