Brown Mackie College

[tonicareer]

This is a fairly new college here in Indiana - I think they bought out Michiana College? Anyone know the tuition rates for Practical Nursing and Occupational Therapy Assistant? Are they any good at all? I have heard positive and negatives from other states. I emailed them - but they want me to sign on the dotted line without giving much info. You Hoosiers will know what I mean when I say how hard it is to get into a nursing program here (or any allied health program). I have tons of credit hours already - have the Ivy Tech ones with a 4.0 and still didn't get in.

[patred5]

Calling All Brown Mackie Grads!!!!

I would love to hear from Brown Mackie graduates that have succeeded as far as landing a good job, being able to transfer their credits for higher education (RN), what schools in Indiana accept BM LPN's credits, and assure those that plan to attend there that they are accredited. I know that the human resource of Saint Anthony doesn't allow them to complete their clinicals there. I thought the Occupational Therapy Asst program was the only one that wasn't accredited. If anyone is interested in their Surgical Tech program, that one is accredited. You can find that on the CAAHEP website.

Please inform us.

Thank you all,

patred5

[justhope]

I graduated from Brown Mackie in Fort Wayne earlier this year. Certain aspects of that school, such as the financial aid department were absolute chaos most of the time. I did not like the fact that they let every single person off the street into the nursing program, I know that kinda sounds bad. But what I mean is that w/ no entrance exam a a lot of people seemed to either not want to be there or think it was easy or a blow off. I had a lot of great instructors, and some of them I would still contact. It is a quick program, but so are all LPN programs. The one thing that I think Brown Mackie has in their favor is NCLEX prep. They prepare you w/ NCLEX test labs from the first class. If anyone is wondering if they take credits, they took my A&P 1&2 and Psych 101 from Ivy Tech, but that was up to them. And yes this school is EXPENSIVE ($270ish/credit), but if that is the only choice or you can't wait it is worth it.

Do you mean $27,000 for tuition? That's actually really good compared to California private schools. I may think about relocating. So, they take credits based on undisclosed decisions? I have 75% of my prereqs done, how long did you attend the program for?

[kgle]

$270 a credit hour isn't even as expensive as other programs. However, its expensive for a program that is not accredited and will not transfer on to other colleges.