Goodwin College???

SarahMaria, MSN, RN · Sep 27, 2015

Hello,

I went to Goodwin College for both my ASN (2012) and BSN (2015). It was a good program. Some of the instructors were great and some were useless. Clinicals were very helpful. There are two things that bothered me about the ASN program. First, there was NO psychiatric clinical rotation. This really bothered me as I wanted to work in psych. Maybe it is different now. Second, lectures had little discussion. They were mostly the instructor reading off of projected powerpoints. That was not conducive to great learning. The BSN program can be done completely online. I did it in 3 semesters, but I had already done a lot of the pre-requisites already.

It's a good school.

Good luck to you,

Sarah

Jeneil2015 · Nov 11, 2015

I am in the same exact boat! I am in search of a nights and weekend nursing program so Goodwin college ended up coming up in conversation with fellow future RNs. I went to the nursing informational session at Goodwin and everything seemed good to go. However, in the meantime, I started working in a MA hospital and no one seems to recognize Goodwin at all, probably because it is in CT and the clinical rotations in the program are not completed in any MA hospitals. But then I also heard some negative things towards the program.

Anything that anyone has to share in regards to the Goodwin nursing program recently, it would be much appreciated!! From what I could research, it seems like they have improved since they first adopted the program. They are an accredited college for nursing, so that has to say something right?

xenogenetic · Nov 12, 2015

I am a Goodwin grad (both ADN + BSN) and I have not heard any negatives about my fellow grads with regards to having hospitals or schools recognize it. Goodwin now is the largest nursing program in the state of CT so I can't see anyone questioning it going forward, either. For what it's worth, I was accepted into a pscyh APRN program with no problems being a Goodwin grad. I highly recommend Goodwin...would of went there for my master's program if they had psych track (I believe the have, or will have soon, a master degree program in nursing case management).

WCSU1987 · Nov 13, 2015

Only thing that turns me off about Goodwin is the cost and that you can't take any outside prerequisites, unless it has changed. Outside of that know a few people who went to the school. They raved about the instructor's and classes though.

PediatricRN73 · Nov 13, 2015

I don't know many Goodwin graduates from my experience at two different facilities but I have heard their program has gotten better and I believe they now accept applications more often than any other program.

I personally feel they are overpriced when the community colleges offer an associates degree for so much less money. I completed my prerequisite & ADN for

Everyone still has to take the NCLEX regardless of which school they graduate from. It's all what you make it and the effort you put in throughout school. Making good impressions at clinical sites and with clinical instructors so you can have good references. Set up job shadows during school or maybe get a student nurse tech position at a hospital. What you put in is what you'll get out!

:-)

xenogenetic · Nov 13, 2015

As an FYI, Goodwin used to offer an approximate $10,000.00 tuition reduction for ther BSN program for former Goodwin ADN grads.

JensyB,RN · Nov 15, 2015

I am a Goodwin grad (ASN 2015) and for the most part, I was pretty happy with the experience. Most of the clinical instructors are excellent and the lectures have definitely improved; they have tried to get away from strictly reading off powerpoints and doing more to engage us in discussions.

A few complaints: They are not completely upfront about the whole process when they are trying to get you to enroll. They do accept applications 3 times a year, but they now have around 500 applications each time and they take around 65 people for each cohort.

As far as class times go, they are very flexible in offering a day and night class option. They will also tell you they offer day, evening and weekend clinicals. They do, however the way they determine what you get is by a lottery where each student picks a number out of a bag and that is the order you get to choose. If the only options left are days and times you can't do, they tell you your options are to make it work or sit the semester out and have first pick next time. Seems pretty harsh since it is a pretty expensive program.

They also offer no job assistance or job hunting tips as they graduate their nurses. It is so hard without a BSN to get into most hospitals and they don't discuss that at all.

For the BSN program they are now offering up to 17k in tuition reductions based on financial need so there is that.

I'm not regretting my decision to go to Goodwin, I just wish I had been a little better informed about some things before I started. I still feel that I received a good nursing education and the NCLEX 3 day live review they offer (for free!) was amazing.

WCSU1987 · Nov 27, 2015

Hi, just received a letter from Goodwin was kind of strange. However, they were talking about most students are approved for financial aid and pay little cost out of pocket. Seems like a sweet deal since I have a second degree. Are they still strict on taking only their classes? Friend went for OTA 2 year's at Goodwin and couldn't take classess anywhere else.

JensyB,RN · Nov 28, 2015

My financial aid covered almost everything and I had to pay very little out of pocket. You can take classes elsewhere - they accepted a lot of my classes from SCSU, but they do have their weird points system so if you aren't taking your pre-requisites there, it's very difficult to earn enough points to get into the ADN program.

xenogenetic · Nov 28, 2015

Yes, I had a BA degree from Uconn and most of my general education credits transferred in. I basically only had to take the nursing courses.

cayenne06, MSN, CNM · Dec 22, 2015

I got my ASN at Goodwin. I found my pre-reqs there to be childishly easy (my final practical exam for chem was, I kid you not, volume displacement- yes, just like you did in 6th grade science) but the nursing program was pretty solid, excepting a few terrible professors. My only major complaint is the cost, but at the time, the wait lists for CC programs were insane and I was willing to take on the debt to avoid that.

Now I work at a clinic not too far from Goodwin, and every once in a while I get a newly accepted nursing student from their program, coming to me for a ppd or titers or whatever. Warms my heart every time :inlove: