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No school in Ohio will except Fortis/Boheckers credits because they are not regionally accrediated, I have experience with this beacause i graduated from the in 2009. When you look them up on the Board of Nursings website all the campuses are either on provisional or conditional status. None of them have ever been on full status. Although Hondros, the other for profit school across the street, is working towards their regionally accredited status and a BSN program as well. They for right now though are not a regionally accredited school. To address the other concerns on the school the tuiton is outrageous, the clinical sites are in Akron, Portsmouth to name a few. For the LPN-RN program you'll be lucky to get into a hospital and if you do the staff will not let you pass meds. My advise go to a local community college and take all your general ed's then transfer to another school. Columbus State just changed their acceptance policy for LPN-RN's to once per year because there were "to many qualified applicants". Try COTC in newark, Clark state in Springfiels, OU in zanesville. THough some programs have a waitlist you hafve to sit on its better than going into debt from a school that has a terrible reputation and not being able to find a job after you graduate.

No school in Ohio will except Fortis/Boheckers credits because they are not regionally accrediated, I have experience with this beacause i graduated from the in 2009. When you look them up on the Board of Nursings website all the campuses are either on provisional or conditional status. None of them have ever been on full status. Although Hondros, the other for profit school across the street, is working towards their regionally accredited status and a BSN program as well. They for right now though are not a regionally accredited school. To address the other concerns on the school the tuiton is outrageous, the clinical sites are in Akron, Portsmouth to name a few. For the LPN-RN program you'll be lucky to get into a hospital and if you do the staff will not let you pass meds. My advise go to a local community college and take all your general ed's then transfer to another school. Columbus State just changed their acceptance policy for LPN-RN's to once per year because there were "to many qualified applicants". Try COTC in newark, Clark state in Springfiels, OU in zanesville. THough some programs have a waitlist you hafve to sit on its better than going into debt from a school that has a terrible reputation and not being able to find a job after you graduate.

No school in Ohio will except Fortis/Boheckers credits because they are not regionally accrediated, I have experience with this beacause i graduated from the in 2009. When you look them up on the Board of Nursings website all the campuses are either on provisional or conditional status. None of them have ever been on full status. Although Hondros, the other for profit school across the street, is working towards their regionally accredited status and a BSN program as well. They for right now though are not a regionally accredited school. To address the other concerns on the school the tuiton is outrageous, the clinical sites are in Akron, Portsmouth to name a few. For the LPN-RN program you'll be lucky to get into a hospital and if you do the staff will not let you pass meds. My advise go to a local community college and take all your general ed's then transfer to another school. Columbus State just changed their acceptance policy for LPN-RN's to once per year because there were "to many qualified applicants". Try COTC in newark, Clark state in Springfiels, OU in zanesville. THough some programs have a waitlist you hafve to sit on its better than going into debt from a school that has a terrible reputation and not being able to find a job after you graduate.

As a graduate of that building with windows, because its not a real school, I'd recommend that you never step foot in that place ever again! The cost of attendance is to high, the clinicals are a joke *ull be driving to akron, OH for your Pediactrics clinicals, surprise!*, the classes don't transfer to any school in Ohio, or earth for that matter, students fail midterms, teachers and clinical instructors quit mid semester and most end up over @ Hondros. They used to be called Bohecker but changed their name to get away from the negative stigma and possible lawsuits. I know you want to be a nurse but you want to be a nurse that knows what she's doing and that place will not get you there.

Their tuition for their LPN program is $22,000 and if you have coursework from another school (columbus state, central ohio technical college) they try to tell you they won't accept those credits. And if they do accept the credits, after you fight with them for an extended amount of time, they don't take the cost off for the credits that you transfer in which means you wont have to take those classes but you still have to pay for them. Their RN program is $24,000. The schedule of coursework will have you going almost everyday for 8 hrs a day, making full-time work impossible. All their clinical sites for the RN program are at nursing homes because hospitals will not let them in. They have to drive out to Akron, OH for their pediatrics clinicals and they get bussed down to Portsmouth, OH for their OB/GYN clinicals (sometimes the bus does'nt show up) the school says they're giving them gas cards to drive to Akron but they're really charging them on the back end for them. The school does not qualify for financial aid anymore (pell grant, ocog, *oig* was discountinued by the state) so all the tuition hast2 be covered by loans. They tell you to go through WIA (workforce initiative act) but WIA tries not to deal w/ Bohecker/Fortis. The financial aid office is overworked w/all the students yelling and complaining about no getting their refunds if at all. Look into other schools and save yourself the trouble.

ohhh that makes sense!!

yes that place is a joke. this place won't let me send private messages to people but I can receive them *weird*

I graduated from Bohecker/Fortis in Columbus last year and still have yet to find a job. Every potential employer knows the name and will not hire graduates. A girl I know that went back for her RN there had an interview and when she mentioned she went to Bohecker her interview was cut short and she didnt get the job. The report on the news stated that the BON will be back there for a visit in June. The RN's do all their clinicals in nursing homes and have to drive to Akron, OH for their pediatrics clinicals. They say Bohecker "gives" them gas cards but its really being charged to them in their tuition on the back end. They don't get Pell grants anymore so all the cost must be covered by loans or paid out of pocket. Check out their status on the BON website The school has other programs (Surgical Tech, Radiography) that they have had to shut down due to lack of faculty and clinical sites. The fact that both programs are $50,000 a piece don't help either. The admission reps do a good job of selling you on the school, but in reality they don't know what goes on outside of their offices. One admission rep didn't even know what the difference between regionally accredited and nationally accredited meant.