Chamberlain College of Nursing

Excellent college! Very dedicated to education of so many students! Great Chicago location!

This campus is awesome. The professors and instructors really help you learn and succeed. I transferred from Indianapolis campus and it’s 100X better. Even all of my fellow classmates are great. There’s not gonna be a perfect nursing school ever, so of course there’s some little bumps here and there. But overall an excellent school!

I have had a terrible experience at this school. I’ve had my financial aid messed up and messed with so many times that I had to meet with the president of the school. I was told that I would have plenty of government loan money and grants to get me through until I graduate. 3 days before I completely run out of this funding, I was told about it by my academic advisor who had routinely made me financial plans. This ended up with me taking on Chamberlain’s private high interest loan. My academic advisor has worked for Devry and Chamberlain for years. Why I wasn’t warned about about (we had many talks about my financial status at the school beforehand) what was going to happen does not make sense. I’ve since spoken with other students who have had similar issues.
I lost my job twice due to the clinical compliance faculty telling me they were unable to switch me to a different clinical site because it was «too taxing» on them and it would «make the school look bad» even though they knew I would lose my job a second time. The faculty clearly cares more about things making «the school look bad» then the well being of their students. I know that they are able to switch the clinical sites because they once scheduled mine on the same day I have class and changed it to a different site/​day about 15 minutes after they realized their mistake.
This school will put up as many barriers as possible in order to avoid dealing with student complaints or concerns. They are extremely profit driven.

After spending a year at the Addison campus then transferring to the Chicago campus, I feel like I have the knowledge and tools to write a legitimate review. With that being said, If you are thinking about attending the Chicago campus versus the Addison campus, I implore you to rethink it!
The Addison campus has been around much longer than the Chicago campus, so they have a grip on how to run a successful nursing program. From the time I got to the Chicago campus, I felt a sense of «disorganization». Leading up to my transfer to the campus, I didn’t get any emails from my professor, no contact telling me what to expect on my first day of class, and the class location itself changed twice. Looking back, my professor was late for EVERY CLASS, we we’re not allowed to record his «lecture», and during class it seemed as if my time would have been better utilized in the library studying. I put quotation marks around the word lecture because unlike the Addison campus, there were no powerpoints to go off of, we did not have a particular outline that we followed; it was just group case studies, videos, complaining from students. I felt like «just another number» while attending this location. The advisors also were lackluster. Everytime I visited my advisor Alicia, she seemed as if she had a bad day, I felt like my time was rushed, or she didn’t seem to car about my problems.
This is a FOR PROFIT school. With that being said, tuition is outrageous and classes are not offered every semester, (this means that if you fail a MED/​SURG class, you will have to wait a 3 months to take that class again).
In conclusion, don’t be fooled by the fancy SIM LAB, nice campus, and promises to graduate in 3 years (think about you take classes all year round, its the SAME time frame and more money as a typical 4 year university), faculty and staff are STILL trying to figure out what works and what doesn’t work with this program.