Azusa Pacific University (APU) ELM

[doctav]

As a current student who once believed this program was worth the cost, I urge anyone considering to applying please DON'T. Do yourself a favor and apply to any Cal state accelerated program. APU's ELM program is filled with "professors" who are recent graduates and barely have any work experience as nurses let alone teaching. You are paying for people to read your power point slides that you will have to spend your own time understanding. I have had an extremely difficult time understanding how they justify their high-cost tuition as a supposed "Christian" institution. You are basically paying 10X tuition costs for a religion class being added to the regular nursing curriculum. I've compared my curriculum with peers attending CSULA and CSULB and could not believe they were getting the same if not better education with better clinical placements at a fraction of the cost. I know what many of you are thinking "but I can't wait that long to be accepted at a Cal state". TRUST me you will regret attending APU. Of course, it's easier to get accepted here, you are paying your way ahead of others. Unless you come from a rich family that is paying your tuition and are okay with teaching yourself apply elsewhere. 

[lenajayy]

Hi,

Thank you for sharing! As a student actively considering attending APU, I needed to read this. Just out of curiosity, what clinical sites does APU send its students to? I'm just scared because I have heard that some schools ask students to find their own clinical sites. Really hoping you could reply! Thank you in advance! ?

[doctav]

Placements change every year and they appear to be getting worse, but APU is not completely to blame since COVID made this even harder. However, other private schools that charge a bunch of money like APU actually pay hospitals to ensure clinical placement but for some reason, APU does not pay hospitals despite the high cost of tuition. For the BSN portion, they should find you everything it may not be good but they will find something. The MSN portion is a different story. I don't know anyone who hasn't had to find their own placement for the MSN part. 

[thegirls]

 Can you please clarify? For the MSN program, how did you find your placement?

[doctav]

most of my classmates for the MSN program found their own placement, but APU tries to find whoever doesn't find their own some kind of placement but it might be far away from you.