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Hondros is currently being sued by former students over accreditation problems. They were at a different campus than me but we got the same run around. We were promised there would NLN accred before we graduated our ADN program. Then it was going to be CCNE. Then it was going to be right after we graduated and be retro active to include us. Then they bailed on getting it for the ADN program entirely and only sought accred for their new online BSN program, "So hey just sign up for that and you'll have an accredited degree in no time!" Every campus of this school is full of lies and milks students for every dollar. Read the article for yourself, here's a quote that gets to the heart of it: Former students sue Hondros College and its CEO over nursing school accreditation problems | cleveland.com

You're comparing the cost of something in California to the cost of something in Ohio. Perhaps you are the one who should do some thinking before posting.

You can also reference this closed thread, just work from the last post backwards since some are pretty old: https://allnurses.com/ohio-state-nursing/hondros-college-nursing-366677-page20.html

Get confirmation in writing/email on the dates for withdrawing with full refund, and the date they will drop you if you don't pay it. If they are going to drop students for it, I would bet it will be too late for a full refund. If so, just leave now. This place blows, just read the other threads about Hondro$. When I was here, no one paid the fee. It wouldn't surprise me if they insist however, they have a lot of new campus construction to pay for, and --------- Hondro$ probably needs to buy a new horse for her grandkids or something.

After two years of prep and delay, Hondros has quit pursuing NLN accreditation. Despite severely limiting job options, Hondros insists they have done this out of concern for the students. They will now attempt to gain CCNE accreditation instead. Hondros has also continued to shut down any graduates options for pursuing their education outside of the school, again stating that this is in the best interest of the students. I imagine the for-profit school has frozen or cut back on their real estate classes, after that economy tanked. However, thanks to large tuition fees, campus construction and nursing programs continue to expand, as the school pumps out one unaccredited class after another into an increasingly saturated field.

As stated by other posters both in this thread and others, and as can be learned by asking, neighboring schools absolutely charge that much less. This isn't what I "heard at lunch", I went to Hondros and as a nurse I obviously work with people who attended those schools. But true, not every school is less expensive. I guess people who actually have to pay for their own schooling tend to bridle a bit more at such things. That's cool and I know students who can say the same, but does nothing to counter differing and seemingly arbitrary experiences. Everyone sells them online, myself included. It doesn't excuse mandatory purchase through the school and laughable usage in class. You're starting to sound personally offended! True, point taken. I'm surprised that's determined by grades, I wouldn't have guessed. I had a great preceptorship but without a doubt a few of the smartest, and highest graded, students in my class were stuck in nursing homes, and they were quite unhappy. I would sooner believe students were told that as an incentive to study or something, I dunno. I know that to this current term, West Chester students are stuck in homes for preceptorship. And despite your adamant denial that Columbus had no nursing home clinicals (which I'm not contesting), West Chester campus wouldn't be open without them. Nothing you said contradicts what I said. NLN accred can take up to 3 years and after 3 years, at such a time as Hondros had claimed they could have it, they didn't. They might get it this fall and they might not. If that is the extent of my knowledge, it's enough to say counting on this happening is a gamble. Why don't you want prospective students to take this into consideration? It sounds like the Columbus campus is quite different than the West Chester campus. I think you make good points here but that's not very high praise. In fact it sounds a lot like Rarman I think you are looking at the wrong website or school.

1. At Hondros you will have the same people all through the program. Especially considering they just voluntarily terminated most of the articulation agreements they had with neighboring schools. This means those schools cannot accept Hondros transfer credits, so students will find it more difficult to transfer out during the program, or even get their BSN somewhere else after their RN (this was planned, so as to retain the students they already had from LPN/RN into their new BSN program. Because NO ONE was coming to Hondros' new BSN from other schools, and they knew they would be hemorrhaging students into other schools BSN programs.). So yeah, once you start at Hondros you will probably all be stuck there, as the few options you would have had are always dwindling. 2. You don't take HESI until the end of the RN program. Whereas some schools include the HESI grade as a major part of your final grade for one class, Hondros makes HESI a Pass/Fail requirement of the class. What this means is that no matter how well you do in NUR 295, if you fail the HESI you fail the course, period. It's called high stakes testing and is a horrible way to run a class. 3. You have two chances to pass the exit HESI. If you fail both attempts, you receive an "Incomplete" grade and you have to wait until the end of next quarter when the next class takes their HESI. You then get two more chances. That's a total of four chances to take the test, if you fail all four you fail the class. Sometimes the smartest people with the best grades fail the HESI by a relatively narrow margin and have to put their lives on hold for 12 weeks until they can retest. At another school they would have simply taken a small hit to their final grade, at Hondros they are just more likely to continue pumping money into the school.

I have to agree with Hondrossucks sentiment, though I might disagree with a few details. Clinical locations, at least for the West Chester/Cinci campus were placed fairly well, but even if they were not, I wouldn't concern myself with that, but rather what kind of facility it is. I agree that rules aren't always held to, but I saw no correlation with how students looked (in fact a couple girls that would surely be classified as pretty appealed to the admins for leniency and were denied). The uniforms were actually not bad imo, but yeah the cost, as with everything at this school, was ridiculous. I left a longer review in the other Hondros thread you can see in this forum.

I am a recent graduate of Hondros (West Chester); I attended the school through both LPN and RN. I would not recommend the school to anyone considering it. I don't know a single classmate that plans on getting their BSN here. If you graduate from Hondros, you will be able to find work as an RN. They aren't going to shut down any time soon, or have the accreditation that they do have revoked. I suppose that's all they promise, and that's all I can say in their favor. Hondros is a private for-profit institution. It is far more expensive (2-3x) than most, if not all, nearby options for nursing. It gets away with charging what it does because less expensive schools have long wait lists and/or high GPA requirements. Like most for-profit institutions, Hondros does a good job of assisting students in getting loans and grants. Everything about the school screams "greedy". The acceptance of transfer credits coming in seems arbitrary, in favor of denying your credits, of course. Testing out of non-nursing classes was disallowed completely a little over a year ago. Repeating a failed course requires full repayment of tuition for that class. Textbook fees are bundled into the cost of tuition, don't bother trying to buy used. You can of course SELL your used books to the company that the school allows to set up shop on campus at the end of every term. Many books are barely utilized; just print the lecture's power points. Much of the book utilization feels forced as if to combat complaints of not needing the books. Laptop ownership is compulsory. When I started they advised buying the junky laptops they wanted to provide, I'm pretty sure it's now mandatory (so that you can read along with "power point professors" off your own screen, while they read off the projector, because you reading off printed notes from home isn't good enough). I realize some other schools do one or two of these things. They are too cheap to even update the computers; they can't handle Google.docs, they constantly break down, half the websites you look at tell you to update your browser (which you can't do without admin powers), the connection is slightly above 56k, their version of Word is outdated, it's a mess. They did just get a new copier though, I was amazed to see they removed the coin slot too. Research resources are a joke, but I hear they may be finally adding access to EBSCOHost or something like that soon. I'm sure the quality of teachers is a mixed bag anywhere you go. The West Chester (also called Cincinnati campus) has a couple good ones. Most are mediocre, and some have no place in a classroom. Even if the teacher is good, some classes are just a monumental waste of your time. I know they have to include some or all of these in the curriculum, but instead of identifying our power animal, or what kind of element we are, or pretending to shave with a bladeless razor and a lot of shaving crème to show how you can "shave off stress", how about learning about nursing? I can't tell you how many times NCLEX question time devolved into a free-for-all that resulted in a teacher saying something like "We'll have to look into this one later" with a nervous smile because the class is clearly ****** after sitting in the same room for 6 hours in front of someone who is teaching a class that's supposed to be preparing us for the NCLEX. Clincals are a joke. The reliance on nursing homes is way high. Even into the RN program. EVEN into preceptorship, it's not unheard of to wind up in a home. During school, and since, I've spoken with people from other schools about their clinical experience and it's a stark contrast. When we were spending week after week observing perfectly healthy little kids run around at YMCA for pediatric clinicals, other schools were taking care of terminally ill children in hospitals. While we were doing bed baths and bedpans in nursing homes, other schools were in hospitals. I know that one class, last term or before, didn't get placement for a clinical group until halfway through the term. The school had them show up to lab on campus instead for the full 12 hours the first five weeks. Guess what? That did not fly with the state board, and every student had to cram all the clinical time in during the second half of the term. How ****** were they? Well the main administrator for that campus (unsure of her actual title) got fired. Hondros does not have NLN accreditation. This will severely limit your job options. They applied after being in operation for three years, which is the soonest a school can apply, and assured students they would soon have NLN accred. That was over a year ago, so obviously they didn't get it. I don't know why that is, but clearly it's a huge gamble to assume they will have it anytime soon. Many hospitals will not hire you if your school doesn't have NLN. No state hospital will. I knew one student who started Hondros fresh out of the military, planning on getting a job at a VA hospital which would have continued employment benefits (unsure of terminology here). VA won't have anything to do with them unless they get a degree from an NLN school, so they now have to get their BSN from the extremely limited amount of schools WITH NLN that will accept them from a school WITHOUT NLN. At West Chester, I didn't have trouble with the administration because I didn't have cause to interact with them. From what I understand, it can be a mixed bag, just like teachers. In short, the guy can be helpful if you are a good student who isn't wasting his and your time. The lady in the other building however is universally disliked by students and teachers (yes, you would be surprised what some teachers will tell you in a clinical setting) and you will get zero help from her with a side of bad attitude. Should I end on a positive note? Hondros has the best scrubs. When I see some of the students from other schools at clinical, I have to shudder for the poor things.