The Western University of Health Sciences

I don't know what class the other nursing student was in, but cheating is definately not tolerated here! The faculty have been accessible and extremely helpful. The workload is as one might expect a graduate program to be-heavy. However, overall the experience has been positive. The campus is located in a bad area, but who cares? Campus security is available as needed and there are always plenty of people around.

Positive:
1) School is smaller than other universities; therefore, you have a lot of interaction between students and faculties. It is like a big family at school.

2) Challenging in most courses that relevant to curriculum
3) Block schedule is a very big difference for most students, but you are able to focus in depth of each course in great details in a short amount of time. Overall, you have more class time hours in a block schedule than a normal semester schedule.

4) Team work is highly implemented at this school, which prepares you to the real life environment at a job in a pharmacy. You will always be working as a team in a pharmacy.

5) Some professors are very nice and approachable. When you look for their help, they will help you with all that they can.

6) Our exam scores are among one of the top scores in the states (even higher than UoP and USC as of the end of 2004)

Negative:
1) It costs a lot of money and will be increasing over time.
2) Some professors are very opinionated and ignorant in their own ways that you cannot get your own points across.

3) There are way too much politics between students and/or professors that can distract everyone, but every school has this problem.

Western University of Health Sciences is a great place to do your graduate work. The Faculty and Staff are wonderful and provide help extensively. They encourage proactive learning and it shows when the students are out there to practice the skills that is learned in the classroom setting. Although, the pharmacy program there is quite new, i can tell that the school is trying its best in building its name, respectfully, because they are teaching us the skills that will be crucial in the growth of our profession. hope this is gonna help you chose the right school!!