Ohio University

Date: Oct 18 2012
Major: Nursing (This Major's Salary over time)
I am completing the Academic Outreach RN to BSN program and I have to say that the school of nursing, both through the outreach program and the traditional RN to BSN program I was previously enrolled in, is extremely disorganized. Admissions and transcript review require luck of the draw on who is reviewing information. Registration is a constant source of stress, because the registration dates posted for the college do not apply, and instead the answer from the Nursing school is often

Oh, sometime toward the end of the month.

Email communications are simply not responded to most of the time, and phone calls get a student volunteer who may or may not know how to get your questions answered.

In addition, coursework ranges from genuinely interesting and helpful to completely unrelated to the material. For example, in my nursing research course, we were required to watch several YouTube videos in which major, widely-accepted scientific theories such as evolution, the big bang, and climate change, were "outed" as being psuedoscience by a dude whose other video line up included gems like "what women want" and how to be a racist idiot. YouTube videos seem to be a real crutch for the faculty, as they have comprised a major portion of every course I've taken so far. I genuinely feel like I am learning in this program, but it is despite, not because of, the instruction provided.