Washington State University

They just recently fired their second dean in a row. I'm in their DNP program and I wouldn't recommend it. They admit everyone, during the first semester there were some who could barely speak English, let alone read or write medical English coherently, there were students who had never written scholarly APA papers before. It was a mess. They find clinical sites for you which is great but they are SUPER picky about clinical sites. To the point where some students who had great clinical sites end up getting placed at poor quality places last minute to fulfill the college of nursing preferences. Additionally, they always ask us to fill out evaluations but they only fix things for the next group of students. It's like watching someone be abused and when we say, this is going on, help us. They stand there and say, we'll fix it for the next person. Well, that's great but it does nothing for us. They do not allow you to change project professors even if your professor has no background in what yours is on. It makes them useless. The professors, in general, are a whole different story, they've chased off most of the "good" ones and the syllabi are mostly a general outline. They change them a lot and mostly on a whim, they also will randomly imply some direction is there that is not. Save your money, go somewhere else. FYI this review in no way is about the PhD or BSN program, those are entirely different and to my understanding, much better structured and run.