MCPHS University

This school needed to be closed in 1982 when it first recognized that it couldn?t make it as a quality pharmacy school. Instead, it tried to make it as a combined pharmacy-nursing school, and then as an allied health university, doing nothing well and reaping tuition from uninformed students. It?s not worth it. The place should been made MCP Foundation long ago.

I decided to write this review because parents should know how badly 504-course professors and administrators treated students last semester at the MCPHS Worcester campus in the Accelerated Nursing program. For the previous 3 months, I heard how the course's professors were inhumane and disrespectful to students. I understood her anxiety because more than 30% of her classmate failed the second exam, and most were top students in their previous courses. For that reason, many of the students reached to the Dean for help; however, she supported whatever the Professors decided. With less than 2 points and without a chance to make up an assignment to reach the 78% required passing grade, some students could not pass and graduate. As a result, students need to pay $15K to repeat this course to graduate because they cannot transfer to elsewhere; students were only worth profits for MCPHS. I hope the MDHE follows the students' complaints and investigates MCPHS College.

From the point of view of a graduated Nursing Student on the accelerated program in Worcester, do not go to MCPHS; once you start, you will regret your decision. The Worcester campus is based on the administration; the leadership there is terrible, no support to students, especially if English is not your first language. For example, to collect more tuition dollars, they failed one of my colleagues, and she needed to repeat another semester because she was 1.5 points short. In addition, classes consist of record videos with unprepared faculty reading from slides because the professors are afraid of students' questions and case studies unrelated to the exams; they do not want you to succeed.

I had the unfortunate experience of completing my 2-years Master's in Physician Assistant degree at the Worcester campus of MCPHS. The university truly lived up to its lowest ranked PA program in the entire country reputation. The program is inadequately resourced with ill-trained faculty, staff, and limited lab and/or classroom resources. The clinical coordinators and faculty alike are notorious for providing faulty/misleading information (critical dates, deadlines, announcements) and then penalizing students when they ask for clarification or miss deadlines due to misinformation. Those students that do manage to graduate and move on is entirely on the basis of self-studying and staying diligent because the clinical coordinators, academic advisors ensure failure from the beginning and are indifferent because they tend to accept students in excess of ARC-PA mandate and only care about the bottom line i.e. collecting tuition. I would not recommend this program even if you are desperate to get into a highly competitive field like Physician Assistant studies because you will receive subpar education at a hefty price!

If you are reading these negative reviews and still decide to go to MCPHS, that is on you. My classmates and I also read these bad reviews, we just figured we were smarter than the kids who are failing out.

Make NO mistake--this is the worst school you will attend. It is obvious that MCPHS is only open to make money off of their students, rather than providing quality healthcare professionals to the medical field.

MCPHS is constantly changing policies, hiring new professors, and wasting students precious time. The majority of professors are horrible, it's clear they reuse old material. If the professors make a bad test question that almost every student gets wrong, instead of giving remediation, they will ask the same question, reworded, on the next exam, but it is only 1/4 of the value of the original points that were lost..., despite it being THEIR error for making a bad question.

I breezed through undergrad and high school. I can't even remember a time when I thought I would fail out of undergrad, or that I was in danger of getting a bad grade. Your entire time at MCPHS, you will wonder if you will fail out. The. Entire. Time. You are constantly in jeopardy of failing out. Exam questions are impossible. Exams have trick questions. Exam questions do not mirror material that was taught. Professors are ruthless, even a professor teaching a 1 credit class will act like their material is more important than a professor teaching a 7 credit course.

I could never share enough of my negative experiences with this school. When I told my cousin, who is also in the medical field, about the way my pharmacy school was run, she actually cried because of how horrible students are treated at this school.

MCPHS truly is a master of trickery. Remember: this is your money going into this school. This is YOUR money, you are the CONSUMER of the PRODUCT. Students are bossed around like they are in middle school, when in reality, MCPHS would never stand a chance if students would speak up against all that is wrong in this university.

Seriously consider your mental and physical health before attending this university. I know multiple students who have had health problems from the stress of this school. I thought people were lying, until they ended up in doctors offices and emergency room because of insane symptoms they were experiencing. Please, unless you are a former 4.0 student who breezed through any exam they have ever taken, and unless you are seriously mentally tough (think Navy SEAL), do not enter this program. You will regret it.

Worst PT program in the country. The director is an awful human being, and they only care about making money. This program absolutely does NOT prepare you for the boards, and their board pass rate is abysmal. The professors haven't practiced in decades and aren't up to date on current practice. It's insanely expensive and one of the worst decisions you could make yourself. Avoid the PT program at all costs.

Durining first semester, all but 1 professor walked out and quit. By end of the program Dean and Department head also quit. School poorly run factory interested only in taking your money. BE prepared to self teach material. Parade of transient, adjunct, random professors with zero teaching skills. Crowded classes with tv professor teaching to multiple campuses. Papers given random grades never handed back to student to see critique. Certain never read by anyone.

This year, they are implementing in a HASTE of what they call Naplex-readiness exams during rotations. No resources or study materials were given prior to this, yet they expect students to take the standard exam during their 3rd year and just pass. If you don't pass, you don't graduate. During 3rd year, you're busy doing projects for rotation which leaves very little time to master all the Naplex materials in just 3 months that they're giving you before you take the "mini-naplex" exam that will determine whether you graduate or not. It is obvious that the school is just trying to filter out more students to sit for the exam after graduation, otherwise they would've approached the issue of low Naplex-pass rates differently. How about giving students online practice examples early on in P2 year? How about actually giving students resources to help study for the Naplex? Some universities have a course to help with the Naplex.

i just started here and I hate this school to the core! none of the faculty care or help you! please dont go here! and avoid professor suzanne dinsmor who wants to ruin your life!

The PharmD program for Manchester/Worcester is something you want to AVOID. I am a 4.0 student and I continued my 4.0 average at MCPHS. This is the worst program you can ever imagine. There is not a single professor in this program who cares about the students. The politics of the school are very corrupt. Professors will give you incredible hard exams, and scale them to their liking to get their perfect bell curves. The majority of professors read directly from their power points but take attendance because if you didn't go to a single class I guarantee you could still get a 4.0. I never opened a textbook and still got A's in all of my classes, however it wasn't easy. You will learn nothing from these teachers. If you have never worked in a pharmacy before do NOT join this program. They say they will teach it to you as if you have never worked in a pharmacy, but they don't. Please, please if you are reading this do NOT go to MCPHS. You will learn absolutely nothing. AVOID THIS SCHOOL

If you have seen the Christmas special "Island of Misfit Toys" you will feel right at home. MCPHS is a congregation of the biggest losers and mind molesters society has produced. In fact I am almost convinced that only the top tier child mind molestors are allowed to work here, we are looking at level 99+, with repeat offending. Most of these loser teachers have been out of practice from real pharmacy for almost 20 years. They are out of date and completely useless. We are taking about World War II pharmacy. Some sulfur powder and drinking your piss to redose your penicillin kind of tactics. But to be fair these losers at least keep their jobs. They are probably sleeping around with each other, giving each other high fives while squeezing their asses. I graduated in 2010 and spent all 6 years there. As college went on through the years it just got worse. There are no clinical classes at all and the tests are only doable if you belong in one of these groups: 1)The Indians who smell like curry, 2)The little Asian Gooks who sit in the front, 3)The white trash sorority/fraternity groups (must like STD gang bangs). These groups are the key to getting old exams and passing. What are on the exams are not taught in class. You must join one of these groups of you are doomed to fail. The school is very expensive and forget about getting any help from the "advisors". The financial aid lady is a big and fat and likes to wear purple, we nicknamed her "Grimace". In the lab we have Catherine Taglieri, we called her "Tag team Tag", we knew she was group banging with the Red head who runs the lab also, and the other minions who work there. If you choose to apply here understand the drop out rate in PharmD is about 50%. They kick out most of the class when they are entering the 3rd year and put them in other crap programs like marketing and science. They do not count these programs as drop out programs but they are. Do not forget, a convicted Terrorist who wanted to kill Americans went here and his father teaches here, they are many shady looking Muslims walking around also with their prayers rugs. On the upside there is a huge tactical swat team located in the school run by Ranger Rick himself with guns and cool sounding radios. Why such a huge armed force here? Think about it, when you are in the business of screwing people over you need a team of trigger happy mall cops. AVOID THIS COLLEGE. You will thank me later.

You are nuts if you read this and don't immediately trash anything that even remotely resembles an MCP-W application. If you're done a year, suck it up, you've survived and you haven't wasted that much money yet. But, you better get the eff out before you really screw yourself over. Even if you make it, this place pretty much destroys everything in its path including your once light-hearted spirit. I'm sure it will eventually be identified in the DSM as something related to PTSD. Unfortunately, your beloved MCP professors lack skills that sustain humans such as empathy. You will inevitably be blamed for your "laziness" as students, when your bad grades are really just a reflection of another one of your professors' failures in life, this time at teaching you important pharmacy information. But, don't try to tell the dean about it, he's been doing this for over a decade and all you need to do is go to Liz or Dante for help. They have masters degrees in education and will help you fix the poor study skills you developed that probably got you into multiple doctor of pharmacy programs. At the same time, your professors tried to succeed at pharmacy but failed, so thought academia was a safe place for them to hide their incompetence. Seems to have worked so far, right Drs. Cabrera, Conway, Donovan, Morin and Steinberg???

Get out of this place as fast as you can! You couldn't be under the care of a worse faculty. The only reason this place has accreditation is because of shady dealings with Charlie Monahan. The dean is a complete toolbag, I don't know where they found him and all the of administration that are up there with him are a bunch of incompetent, self-righteous A-holes. Even if you've gone through a year, I'd say get out while you can because they'll eff you wherever they can and before you know it, you'll have a mortgage, no house, and no job! But, you may have a doctorate from MCP! How many more RPhs does Massachusetts need???

The seasoned teachers for the most part are excellent.
The support staff however are always new.
You wouldn't expect to feel lost in such a small school but you will. With nearly all of your classes 300 person lectures, and 40 students per lab section you are just one of many here.

At least 1/2 of the students who start as PharmD will be pushed out and forced to settle with a BS degree (even if they never failed a class).I wish I went to a different school but now i'm stuck, thank goodness I only have 1 year left.

This school solely exists for the money. They have no interest whatsoever in ensuring we have a good, solid education. they don't even care if we're learning the right thing. This program should not be accredited and I am nothing but embarassed to be associated with this school. They treat students worse than any school has ever treated students that I know of.

If you go to this school you will have a hard time getting a job after you graduate because it is getting an ever increasing terrible reputation. I had no idea a school this bad could be accredited otherwise I would've listened to all the PA's who graduated from this school who told me not to go here.

Don't be fooled. They don't give a damn about you. Don't ever say anything to anyone, including the mental health counselor because it will not be kept confidential. They will out you no matter what. They do not take responsibility for anything. You're better off not going to PA school than going to this school. If you're stupid enough to still apply then you have only yourself to blame.

I go to the Manchester campus, and I'm enrolled into the accelerated PharmD program. DO NOT enroll into the accelerated PharmD program! This program will teach you NOTHING that you need to know about being a pharmacist. I am nearing the last 10 months of this horrible program, and I have learned just as much (maybe more) at the pharmacy that I work at!

In your first year, you will be taught for the most part. Your first year will be enjoyable, but your second year you won't learn a damn thing. Sure they will teach you about some things (especially when it comes to pharmacology), but when it comes to actual therapies of certain disease states (stuff that a pharmacist should be an expert in) you will not learn a damn thing.

All these people want, seriously, is money! They want to expand their conglomeration of a school and nothing else. If you apply here, you are guaranteed to see new "improvements" in buildings. Since I have been here these people opened up 3 new buildings. They have "upgraded" their distance education systems. They hired a new IT guy. All of these things are for the sake of enrolling more students for the desperate "need" of pharmacists! I guess they don't realize that the need for pharmacists is shrinking every damn year. It is not 1999 anymore people!!!

Really, the worst part of it all is that they appeal to hardworking smart students like so many of us who applied to this horrible program. They say "Graduate with a Doctorate degree in pharmacy in under 3 years!". Who wouldn't like that? I kinda feel like these people tricked us all, just to fulfill their need to grow a bigger school.

My suggestion to anybody in High School reading this is: apply to URI or UCONN if you want to go to pharmacy school in the Northeast. I recommend these schools because it seems that most of the better professors at our program come from these schools. Do not even think about going to MCPHS Worcester/Manchester. Believe this from the words of somebody who has been through this crappy program.If your are in college and want to apply to pharmacy school my suggestion is: forget about MCPHS Worcester/Manchester at all costs and look elsewhere. I know this program sounds appealing, but you will eventually find yourself paying over 40,000 a year for a crappy education. If you can find another school that will accept your credits apply there. If it means that you have to take an extra year at another school, do it.

I went MCPHS and didn't get out what i went in for. They promised me that I will be able to switch my major to Pharmacy after I spend a year in Pre-med. Long story short, after wasting my 2 years, and getting some very fake promises from professors that they will scale my grades or "help me out" and even after meeting dean of health care / dean of other majors and having some rough times at this school - i ended up with a degree and luckily / i have a job so my back-up option of wasting more money on this school is gone .... i would have never goneto this school if i knew what my studying habits and level of dedication and political games this school plays. its just wrong when school just looks straight in your eyes and shows you wrong direction and gives you promise that they will not fulfill and pretty much you can get pretty screwed if they don't give you practical advice .. i guess i had my real life lessons through some tough times however i wish things coudhave been different ..($$$ its a pretty expensive overall)

MCPHS - Worcester - waste of money - RUN AWAY !!!!
This program is nothing but DISAPPOINTING.
It has potential but there is total disregard for it.
The President "Charlie" Monahan, is nothing more than a power-hungry money-grubber. Tuition keeps rising to pay for the MCPHS-Manchester program (learn via SATELLITE TV!) and the new living quarters and RN program next door.

God forbid money go into CURRENT TEACHING or getting seasoned instructors. All new instructors are GREEN --> meaning minimal pharmacy experience (fresh out of residency doesn't count) and also they are cheaper to hire. Academia to academia doesn't breed good pharmacists!

In house Politics -- the Pharmacy Science Dept truly attempts to teach you whereas the Pharmacy Practice Dept does not teach and is not supportive in any way, shape, or form. Also, seasoned instructors from Pharmacy Practice leave every year and the school is only 5 years old! What does that tell you? The direction is for "students to teach themselves." Do you see this forum anywhere else in a clinical teaching program? Are surgeons next?

What you get out of this program is "how to take an exam and pass." Big deal. Pass the Boards. But are you a COMPETENT PHARMACIST? No, you are not. Are you even knowledgable? No, you are not. You are taught how to apply what you know. You want to learn about drugs? You won't be doing it here!

Also, you CANNOT TRANSFER your MCPHS-Worcester classes elsewhere. You are stuck here. If you do poorly here, you have to wait a YEAR to return to the classes or you have to completely reapply and go elsewhere (for 4 years).

The format for this program will more than likely disintegrate in a few years, due to the death spiral it is in now. Your only option if in the program is to finish and move far, far away and hope that no one in the pharmacy world realizes how horrible this place is.

The school currently starts with 150 students so to capture monies for people like Charlie Monahan and growing a monstrosity of a school. MCPHS-Worcester will NEVER be a top school of pharmacy. The new Dean, Michael Malloy, is the worst candidate for that position and is detested by students (and a piss-poor instructor!). He will NOT support you EVER.

My advice -- Go elsewhere. Go somewhere that encourages LEARNING. Go somewhere where instructors are supportive and encouraging and facilitate you to become a competent pharmacist. Go somewhere to get your money's worth because you will not be getting it here. You have been warned!