Marian University online nursing - don't go there

[lovetheprofession]

I graduated from Marian University's online program, but I would never go there again or tell someone else to. This is just my opinion but ask other students. I'm sure another student or Marian person will write the opposite. But probably Marian or Orbis asked them. So make sure you talk to other people who went there.

It's not really Marian, it sort of is. The people at the online building don't work for Marian, they work for a company called Orbis Education. The company is on the same floor even as the online school. All Marian and Orbis care about is money, they didn't care about us at all. Good people used to work there, but they all left because they couldn't stand working there. The only good people left are all looking for new jobs.

Marian nursing professors don't want or like the online nursing students. They only wanted our money to build a building not for the online students. I heard the nursing teachers at Marian didn't want to do the online program, but the school made them.

Marian treated us like second class citizens. They don't like that we already have a degree and are older, because we know when they are not doing a good job. Which is most of the time. Somehow it was our fault that they do a terrible job teaching. I guess they can push around their regular nursing students because they don't know any better.

So many of my class left or were kicked out, because the program is so bad. They made us take tests on material we didn't know about, and then the dean told us as a group that it was our fault we did bad. This stuff happened every day. I was a 3.8 student at IU and my mom is a college teacher. I made 4.0 on my science prereqs at IUPUI. I was lucky to graduate.

It's too expensive for what you get. It cost me more than $55,000 to get my nursing degree from Marian, and I already had a degree. IU costs half that. I went to Marian thinking I would get a better nursing education. I was wrong. Also it's not 16 months. It's more like 24 months. They just say that so you will talk to them.

I love nursing. Wish I went to another nursing school. In Indianapolis don't go to Marian, go somewhere else.

[Sarah Rossier]

I am a current ABSN student at Marian and I support what the OP posted and subsequent commenters who have been in the program. The ABSN program is not designed for working adults. It is designed for adult students who do not have to work and do not have other responsibilities in life such as a family, mortgage, etc. I originally graduated from IU with above a 3.5 GPA BSA double major. First of all there is not such thing as a 16 month ABSN program. The only way a student could achieve this is if all prerequisite courses are counted as credits at Marian. Then, it dies not account for any repetition of a course. Marian requires 18+ credit hours per semester. Sometimes those courses include two accelerated 8-week nursing courses with a clinical on top of a 16-week didactic and clinical course. 
Clinical assignments receive no percentage toward the final grade yet take the majority of time preparing. Assignments are worth 2% of the total grade. If you fail 1-2 exams out of 5, you will fail the course. By fail I mean below the required 77% C+ requirement. 
Didactic and clinical professor turnover is constant. There is no partnership between didactic and clinical professors. The didactic professors will make the sole decision on performance and grade even on clinical performance. Didactic professors are not regularly available for office hours. They will not provide exam review without advance questions submitted by the class. There are no meaningful exam reviews. They will never share the test questions or answers so you will never know what you missed. Some professors will attempt to provide a commonly missed concept review but they are typically generic and of little to no use. 
As a graduate from a public university, I would advise anyone with a family, home or that has to work while going too OK school to choose a different program. I wish someone would have told me this before I invested thousands of dollars in a program that has no regard whether it's students pass or fail or pass the NCLEX. Please check the official university rankings before choosing Marian fur nursing! It is not even in the top 10 of the highest performing nursing schools in Indiana.