Belmont University

Date: Aug 05 2008
Major: Nursing (This Major's Salary over time)
In case it isn't painfully obvious from all the comments posted here, let me put my 2 cents in: Belmont University, and especially the nursing program, just plain sucks. There is no other way to put it, crass comment or not. To say anything else would be to lie. It addition to getting screwed over by Belmont's personalized grading scale, in addition to being treated to Bible-pounding, arm-raising sky pilots who see Jesus in plates of spaghetti and bowls of their Capn' Crunch cereal (True bit about Belmont: Teachers lead classes in prayer. Not religion classes, but, like, REGULAR classes), Belmont's Nursing "program" is the biggest ripoff in college history. The program is essentially entirely book-based. There is practically no useful clinical skills taught at all—our SENIOR class is still making patient beds, giving baths, and wiping ass to meet the state-mandated clinical requirement hours. The other post is accurate—no one knows how to actually start an IV or do a foley on a real person. Belmont lets the hospitals use students however the hospitals want to, so your clinical "learning experience" where you are supposedly learning actual skills required not to kill someone when you are a working RN is really spent as free labor for the hospital. So come to Belmont, enroll in their $45,000 BSN plan, and in just 4 years they will teach you how to make a bed or wipe someone's ass. It's well worth the time and money and your future employer will be amazed at how tight your hospital corners are…and also at how pathetically inept you are as a nurse.

If they were honest about it, Belmont's School of Nursing's moto would be: Belmont Nursing—Theoretical Nursing In A Practical World.

Go to Vandy and get a real education, and don't waste your time or money at this poor excuse of a school.