Has any one attended Keiser Univer.

9livesRN, BSN, RN · Jan 15, 2009

I will tell you this much, there are good and bad things at Keiser, but i love it ! overall is great, all the staff knows you, even people not related to your program!

we have a brand new building and a brand new nursing lab for us here in orlando, our staff is amazing

all MSN and PHD's teaching the RN program (which is not soooo commmon)

then again, we have 4 clinical instructors, and they are great, one of them is the same instructor to seminole cc.

The nursing staff is awesome, those Ladies really want us to get the info, to understand, and to succeed at it!

they even arranged Mr John bottoms, the director of math, to be available for us every wed afternoon to assist RN students with anything (mind you he is great, really calm and there for us!)

we have skills lab open ( every afternoon) and faculty is on campus every after noon until 5 pm!!!

KEISER also bough us access to mynursinglab.com and it really help us get through with it!

so... i would definately recomend..

i believe that even though this is their first time around with the RN program on our campus, it was well put together by our director of nursing and the vicedirector, (wich e-mails us every day to guide us, and even wish us luck LOL) - even the campus president and the dean are great!

i will give our staff:up: :up: :up: :up: :up:

our program director :up: :up: :up: :up:

our labs :up: :up: :up: :up: :up:

our resources :up: :up: :up: :up: :up:

and it does not cost 40 k if you are doing your NURSING classes there, it is no more then 30 with books, uniforms and it all!

ah, and thre is only 24 of us per round, and the waitlist now is jan10

FLmomof5 · Jan 15, 2009

Everyone needs to evaluate the value of a Keiser education against their needs, their dreams and the cost.

CSantos stated that for Orlando "the waitlist now is jan10 ". He also said in another post that the cost is $30K.

I spent $2000 for my pre-reqs and books. The nursing school (last estimate INCLUDING uniforms, et.al.) was going to run about $8K. There is NO waiting list. I turned in my app yesterday for Summer start. So my nursing education will cost 1/3 of what Keiser charged, credits are ALL fully transferrable and I will be finished just as those on Keiser - Orlando's waitlist are just getting started.

To me that would be a no-brainer.

starinfinite · Mar 20, 2009

I am currently looking to go to Keiser how are things going so far.

starinfinite · Mar 20, 2009

Hi,

I am currently looking at Keiser RN program in Lakeland. I just would like to know how are you doing in the program do you enjoy it and is it worth the money we pay for the program. Please give me all the advice, pros and cons.

mamawolf · Mar 21, 2009

I will finish nursing school in 5 days. I took ALL of my classes at Keiser University Fort Lauderdale. We are fully accredited through SACS, NLN and have provisional Florida Board of Nursing status. That is the same as every other University and school out there. Yes, it was quite expensive all in all about $40,000. But I wanted convienience and I wanted to be done ASAP. So, for me it was worth the money.

The experience has been the same as any other post I read about nursing school. Nobody truly enjoys the experience, we all just want to get out and be nurses.

We have hands on clinicals, small class sizes and they are tweaking the program to make it more NCLEX focused.

Good luck to all you future nurses! The job front is tough for new grads right now here in South Florida:bluecry1:

classykaren · Mar 22, 2009

I think they should lower the rate especially in this economy

soon2bns · Mar 22, 2009

I have to agree the nursing program seems to be very expensive. I will be attending VCC in May and it is a 18 month program which costs around 8 thousand without pre-reqs. I guess if you want to finish sooner than that attending Keiser won't be that bad. Honestly, who wants to be stuck paying back 40,000 for 20 years :banghead: .

RN2Bee84 · Apr 10, 2009

I just did my FA for Keiser today. It isn't that expensive. I was going to pay $21,000 for a LPN program which doesn't give you a degree. Kieser for me is only about $29,000. I get a 25% discount because I work at a hospital that Keiser does clinicals. I had 3 transferrable pre-reqs and I will only have to end up with like 15,000 in student loans. I don't think that it is expensive because I am getting a degree vs. the LPN program that I was in with no degree. I haven't started the school yet but it does seem like a really great school and they have VERY high standards and they require their student to be professionally dressed and I haven't seen that at other schools.

9livesRN, BSN, RN · Apr 10, 2009

i think you are making a great choice! which campus are you going to?

9livesRN, BSN, RN · Apr 10, 2009

keiser orlando here!

starting med surg next month

RN2Bee84 · Apr 10, 2009

Jacksonville Campus! Any one else????

SpaceCoastRN · Apr 10, 2009

Many community colleges have scholarships available that make nursing school free. My wife and I are about to finish from our local community college with zero student loans due to scholarships, they even covered books. Do your homework before you sign onto a huge financial debt such as the potential with Keiser.