The University of San Francisco

Date: Dec 06 2019
Major: Nursing (This Major's Salary over time)
I transferred into the Nursing program as a Junior and almost complete with my 3.5 years at the University of San Francisco. Beware all transfer students, USF's bachelor's nursing program is a mandatory 3.5 years of just nursing courses (prereqs not included) and the max Cal grant you could recieve is 2 years and 3 years for the USF transfer scholarship. USF has been a reputable nursing program throughout California, however the program is falling apart (literally). The program requires Sophomore 2-Senior 2 students to take a HESI exam at the end of each semester. If failed the first time, students are required to pay the fee for a 1 unit "remediation" course (mind you, each unit at USF is $1700+). The course consisted of a 20 min lecture of when to expect the next retake and consequences of not passing a second time. $1700+ to retake a test required by the nursing department (not even the state) to obtain a diploma. All students are required to purchase an extremely expensive ONLINE TEMPORARY textbook bundle to "save money" that expires right after graduation that you can't even keep or sell to get some of your money back. Students have had issues with clinical placements (groups not being assigned to a clinical site for half a semester that was to be "made up", failing to submit accurate onboarding forms for all students preventing us from being able to actually start clinicals, professors unfit to teach because all of the respected professors have left). The students in the BSN program have rallied together to change the structure of the program that is leading us to failure and potentially endangering our future patients. Students have continuously rallied up throughout the years to get their concerns about the program heard and have been immediately shut down or not even considered. There few amazing professors left at in the program that genuinely care for and advocate for the students but the big names in charge don't seem to care for the students more than their profit. I have never experienced such an unorganized, unprofessional department. The quality of the department and school is so horrendous that I wouldn't even pay $5,000 a year to go here knowing I could get a much better quality education at a community college or CSU/UC. The cafeteria has a history of having roaches. The bathrooms are always filthy and don't have seat covers. Every year we get a letter in the mail stating that tuition is increasing another $3000+ for the upcoming school year. You'd think that them raising tuition thousands of dollars for everyone every year that they'd at least be able to buy us toilet seat covers. Being located in San Francisco, parking is horrible but there are only 100 parking spots reserved for people with parking permits (this includes students, STAFF, and WORKERS). Besides that, there is 2hr and 4 hr street parking that takes at least 15-30 min to find around the time everyone's parking time expires. Looking for parking anytime before 7:30 am or 12pm, or 4pm? Good luck, mostly everyone is still in class so you won't see people moving their cars for hours. You have to get to campus an hours early to camp out in hope of finding a parking spot on the street. If you have a parking permit, sometimes I think that's worse because you pay hundreds of dollars for a ONE DAY pass (yes you read that correctly, one day, not 2 days or 3 or full time) but it doesn't guarantee you parking. You must get to the parking garages before 7:30 or they will most likely be full for the rest of the day. A daily parking pass for the garages costs $20/day. And don't get me started on the quality/efficacy (or lack thereof) of the financial aid department.