West Coast University

This place sucks big *****. Im a really smart person but this school is some kind of sick joke. Its a for profit school not worth 150 000 for an bsn at all. The professors like the anatomy yusuf snd that pscycholgy teacher ms hien dont know how to speak english. I also had an algebra teacher who barley spoke english mr ku. Dont go here go anywhere else. They basicly stole my 20,000. Im now at a community paying $ 700 a semester than $ 2700. The califonia bpoard of education should shut this joke of a school down. I have a 4.0 at RCC. Ive alrealt reported this school for negligence. Beware stay away. Go to any other college and you be fine. The staff professors couldnt be any worse. Im pretty sure they are told by the administation to not help there students to try to get them to fail and then leave after 3 failures so they get like a bunch of money and have to hand out no degree. Ive filed a lawsuit with them. Dont go herr listen to me you will save yourself from this turd and save thousands of dollars.

I have never been to such a unprofessional school in my life. I don’t recommend this university to anyone seeking to become a RN leaving this school was the best thing I ever did. The staff doesn’t seem to care about the students they are all for the profit. The staff is nice when you first enroll because they want your money but after you are a student here I felt they were so rude. I’ve also had some very unprofessional professors here I’m not going to name any names but the job of a RN is to save lives and help others I felt that being at this school I lost my passion to become a nurse. I’m glad I got out while I had the chance I recommend you do all your research before enrolling in this school.

Dr Youseff is the best!!! Absolutely love him as a professor!!! This school is for serious students only. No cry babies allowed… Its pricey yes, but its worth the investment.

Okay, so I see there’s a lot of negative reviews about WCU Ontario on here. First of all, all the bad reviews on here are from students who have failed out or are not doing good in the program. I’ve been attending this university now for a little over a year and a half, and I absolutely love it. I took all my Gen. Ed. Classes here and passed all of them with great grades. I am currently in the nursing «core», and it is really hard. But it’s going to be really tough, they tell you that before you sign up. I’ve maintained an excellent GPA and it definitely is do-​able.
You have to truly dedicate all your time and effort, but it’s worth it. I’m currently on the Dean’s List for maintaining a GPA of 3.75 or higher. The teachers are more than helpful, and all care about the students grades. Tutoring hours are always available for those who need help, and the teachers work around your schedule in order to help you pass your classes. A lot of bad reviews on here are stating that the teachers don’t help and they don’t care if the students fail or not. This is NOT true. In order for a teacher to help, the student must put in the work. No teacher is going to give you a «free pass» grade. You have to work for that grade, and the teachers see the effort each student puts in. I love every teacher I’ve had so far and I can not complain. All the staff at school is also extremely helpful and always on top of everything.
Also, people are complaining about the price of the campus. Yeah, I do agree that it is extremely pricey. But there’s no wait list, and you get every class you need in order to graduate in that limit they promise you. (If you don’t fail or drop any classes of course). But other than that, there’s honestly nothing to complain about. There’s no way you can fail if you read your textbook, do your ATI’s, use all the additional resources that the teachers provide you, and stay on top of everything.
So basically, I love the campus, the teachers, all the help that’s provided, and everything else really. Do everything that is asked of you, stay professional, maintain good grades and I guarantee that you’ll pass and get that degree at the end. I definitely would recommend this campus to anyone who is serious about becoming an RN and dedicating their life to school for that amount of time. This is my first nursing core term, and I’ve been on top of all my work, got A’s on all my tests so far, and I have no doubt about me moving on to the next term. I love the Gen. Ed. Dean Dr. Learner. He’s absolutely great and always eager to help any student that needs the help. I also love the Fundamentals of Nursing teacher, Professor Heinzinger. She’s always willing to help and explain vital information that we need to add to our knowledge in order to be successful later on in life. Also, the skills lab teacher, Professor Smith, is absolutely the best instructor in the world. She’s so gentle and understanding. She demonstrates everything and won’t move on until all the students understand the concept. Dr. Davis in the education suite is also so great. She returns my calls immediately and helps me with whatever I need. Whether it’s vaccines I need for clinicals, or how to go about any nursing paperwork that needs to be completed and submitted. Great campus and wonderful/​helpful staff & teachers!
–Dani A.

I ran out after 3 weeks. I never felt so free. One of the advisers tried to talk to me to dig deep into why I wanted out. Ha! I gave her a tailor made answer to feed her curiosity and «interest.»
Why should I pay a boat load of money for a school that has two floors? Can someone please post a picture of their «library» as exhibit A. Library, more like LiBarely. The travesty!
The parking space is unbelievably tiny.
I transferred most of my classes but I still had to take their glorious general ed classes. I came from a community college and I had taken all sorts of gen eds. I was absolutely sick of it. The school is honestly money crazy. Have several seats. You’re not a UC school.
I hate blackboard. It’s confusing. Why can’t the professors just give you homework the regular way. They also need to let that first year seminar go. It’s a waste of time.
That school is all advertising. They want YOUr money.
The staff is well dressed, the lobby is cute. There, take your cool points.
I also can’t stand that lady from financial aid. I won’t name names but she waddles and she has a nasty vibe to her. She honestly grosses me out.
I managed to leave with minimal scratches. I still owe like 3 grand for the 3 weeks. Curiosity not only killed the cat, but has put a dent in my wallet. I only went here out of sheer desperation but I know that I can get a better deal somewhere else in addition to actual college experience.
The moral of the story: Run for your life! Not worth it.

Current student. Pending.
I would recommend taking prerequisites at a junior college to save lots of money. Online registration is one day for less than 10 hours and no choice in professors. Very hard to change times of classes, stuck with what you get.
Very fast pace accelerated learning. Library is a great tool and the librarians are wonderful!
Starting my clinical rotations this semester.

«FIRST TERM AS A STUDENT» review
(I have received many Unilocal messages about my experiences here at WCU, so I will continuously update my reviews as time goes on.)
When one of the Unilocalers who said that this school is a «wallet drainer.» It is. The tuition is expensive, but the education is worth it.
I give this a 5 stars because I had no problem with the pace of this accelerated program, my professors were professional and I was surrounded by motivated and driven students who had the same goal as me.
THE PACE: It is definitely accelerated. My classes are each 5 hours long every week. Every week there are exams, lecture and new homework assignments to be given. You are expected to learn before you come to class and to keep up with the learning pace.
PROFESSORS: I have good professors that were willing to help my classmates and I.
AMBIENCE: It is a serious environment surrounded by like-​minded individuals who has the same dream which is becoming a nurse.
THE ONES WHO FAILED OUT: There are exceptional students at this university, but then there are the bad ones. The ones I know who failed out this term were the ones who doesn’t manage time efficiently, not studying the smart way and/​or prioritize their education.
MYSELF: I have one more term before I start nursing core. Yay!

Very expensive mistake.
After I was admitted and cleared by financial aid, I had some trouble getting my schedule. I completed the admission process weeks before my start date. I made numerous attempts to get an idea of what days and times I would need to be in school so that I could inform my employer. No one could give me an answer. I finally got my schedule the friday before classes were to start. What I got from this is that the staff have no regard or respect for your time.
I was initially impressed by the professors. One had a MA from an actual university and the other a PHD. The lectures were honestly pretty good. Both professors I had were experts in their fields although I could hardly understand one as she was from the Philippines. I heard a lot of bad from all of the students I talked to. Everyone I talked to felt that they had some very bad instruction from most or all of their other professors. «Watch out for Professor …» I mostly ignored all these remarks. I figured that maybe these students just maybe aren’t cut out for university level classes.
The term that I started, the school JUST began using a program called Blackboard. I am familiar with Blackboard as most other schools use this as a portal. No problem. The problem was that all of the homework and tests were ran through a third party publisher website. You could not buy actual books for the courses, you had to buy an E-​book which would connect you to this publisher website which was supposed to connect to Blackboard and populate grades. Both professors I had stated that they were not familiar with the use or management of these systems. They informed us that they had no training in the use of these as well and they were learning to use them just as we were. No problem, it can’t be that hard for these well educated people to figure out, right? Right?
Wrong!
For each class, I spent HOURS each week completing ALL of the assigned homework. All of which was online, on Blackboard, on the McGraw Hill portal. All of which is supposed to be linked to populate appropriate grading. After the first week, my grades for each class were low and showed that my homework was not completed. I heard the same thing from many other students in my classes. I am not a C student, I am an A student. I get good grades. I do my homework, study, and do well on tests. I brought this issue to the attention of both professors and the reply I got from both was «Blackboard is supposed to do the grading and I have no control over Blackboard. You need to call the tech support hotline.» So I went home and contacted tech support. Tech support said that they had no clue why there were no grades being recorded. At this point, two weeks into the five week semester, I contacted the Dean. I asked him if there was anything he could do. The Dean, Dr Lerner, promised me he would attempt to remedy the situation.
WCU has five week classes. Each semester is ten weeks long with two five week terms. Each semester costs about $ 10,000, so each term costs about $ 5,000.
At this point, I was not ready pay $ 5,000 for two classes and get C grade because of technical issues. The school is strict with their drop policies so I had to decide to drop or stick it out and MAYBE have the technical issue resolved. The professors would not respond to emails about this issue until I cc’d the dean on my emails to them. The dean, Dr Lerner, made several attempts to remedy this but the professors had no instruction on the use of the platform and didn’t seem to care to help. I made the decision to drop so that I would not be on the hook for poor grades. I was not eligible for any refund and the amount I owed was prorated based on the time I was in class.
For the school to charge so much money you would think that they know what they’re doing, right? If you pay top dollar, it is not unreasonable to expect top service and a top quality education. I made several attempts to get in contact with the campus director. She would not see me to hear my concerns. I also made several attempts to find someone at the corporate office to share my concerns with. I got the run around. I hoped that there may be some sort of quality assurance or customer experience department.
It is my impression that this company is only out for money. They have no interest in you, just your tuition. They are capitalizing and preying on people who are desperate to get a nursing education.
If you are considering this school, I would advise you to look elsewhere.
A nurse that I work with told me she started from scratch at WCU. She is now a full-​time nurse but she has to pull overtime shifts to be able to afford her bills and student loans. She told me her student loans are around $ 1,500 a month. If you go the traditional route, you can get your BSN, MSN and possibly a DNP or FNP for less than the cost of this school.

First of all, if I could give this school 6 stars, I would. To all of you serious, future nursing students out there looking for a great program, PLEASE ignore all of the ridiculous negative reviews on here. If you notice, everyone who has written a bad review has either failed numerous classes or has been kicked out of the school. They are bitter and are trying to retaliate against the program by writing a negative review. Would you want an RN that failed multiple classes taking care of you or your family? I know I wouldn’t! There are several reasons why I chose WCU.
I am a current student at the Ontario campus in my second year. I came into the school with NO pre reqs and what I loved about this program is the fact that it includes all of your pre reqs! Some people wait 3 years just to get their general education classes done! You will be done with EVERYTHING in 3 years here at West Coast. Yes, WCU is expensive, but I PROMISE you get what you pay for at this school. And it’s a private university! Private schools are expensive, people! Financial Aid works with you, too to make the payments affordable! You have no waiting lists, most of the instructors are either Doctors or have at least their Master’s Degree, and the school really is focused on nursing! Every class, even the pre reqs, are focused on nursing. You don’t get that perk at a JC or CC. In chemistry, you learn how chemistry affects the human body, in math, you are learning med math, in English, they comment on proper ways to write nursing notes. When you are walking through the halls you get to hear other nursing students around you discussing diagnoses and symptoms. Everyone is so close and the classes are super small (10 – 12 people in a lab) so you get one-​on-​one time with the instructor! I have no idea why people are saying the Dean is unapproachable, I would say the complete opposite! You are also paying for the convenience of how quick this program is! If you want to go to a JC or CC and wait 7 years to become an RN, so be it! WCU isn’t for everyone! That being said, the program is not easy! And they warn you numerous times before you begin the program. It takes hard work, sacrifice, and a great amount of dedication and perseverance!
In conclusion, I’m sorry I wrote a book, but I feel as if this school needed some serious defense. The greatest decision I ever made in my life was to attend WCU. I feel as if this program is the greatest school out there for nursing, and every day I am so grateful to be able to attend the school of my dreams.

WCU, better known as the wallet drainer. I was attending community college all over southern California (literally in three different cities) before I decided that I wanted to be a Nurse. I started my career as a CNA (which I highly recommend for anyone wanting to pursue a career as an RN), and was going to community college at the same time. Just a little background. When it comes to WCU, it looks great and fantastic but the admission staff do not tell you the hardships that you will have endure while attending WCU. With this being said the negatives of the school. The Dean is not approachable, hard to get ahold of, and definitly not student centric. Most people are going to wonder why I am not saying the cost, once you sign the papers you know what you are getting into. Anyways, policies and procedures change dramatically. Like in nursing things change quickly and without notice, so be prepared for a random email stating something is going to change within the policies. The schools retention of instructors is minimal and most of the new instructors have no idea how the school or campus works. This is not saying that the instructors have no idea what they are talking about because they absolutely do, more so they do not know the facility. It takes a lot of your time and energy. If you are someone who is not dedicated to getting the degree you will not succeed, A lot of complaints that I have heard is that it is difficult to pass, and instructors and deans are difficult on you when you want to petition a class (meaning you fail, but want to pass). If you fail a class, you deserve to fail, just my opinion. You have to put in what you want to get out of it. The exams are compiled of a lot of information but information you need to know. If you are dedicated to becoming a nurse and want to do this as a career you will succeed. This school takes a lot of time, effort and dedication, but it can be done! One more thing, if you are not an independent student willing to tons of outside studying then this school is not for you.
Why 4 stars? I received a degree right? My BSN. I was able to sit for the Boards, and get a job within the first two months of graduating. Isn’t that the ultimate goal? The school gave me the classes that I need to graduate, without waiting lists. It was challenging which I like, and the career of nursing is. It sets you up for rapid change and the development of critical thinking. This school is not for the weak hearted, it kicked my ass. Clinical facilities were fine, not the greatest but you aren’t going to be there for ever. The facility is nice. If you have never been in a clinical setting before then the simulation center is a great experience which will give you an idea of what to expect. Instructors are hit or miss, but either way you have to put in the work to get the passing grade. It was a challenge to receive the 76 percent in each class in order to pass. Career services is great and helps you out a lot when it is time for employment. ATI is the worst but I feel as though it helped me pass the NCLEX. Fast paced, and able to be in an accelerated program and get it done. I went to Oxford, UK for one of their international programs and it was amazing! Met so many great people and was able to explore different areas of healthcare. One of my friends went to Belize and also had an amazing time. The international relations is great!
In general, if you are an independent student and don’t mind the loans, go for it. If you do not know what you want to do in life, then do not start here! You must be dedicated, and know that nursing is for you. (Get your CNA first!!). If you do go here, prepare your self for change, and politics. It is a FOR PROFIT school, they do not care about you, just your money. If you are having a difficult time getting the classes for nursing, then go here. You get what you put into your education.

Institutes like this one are only design to make money. They don’t care if you pass or not. Their policies are design to fail the student. A student is only allowed to fail two classes throughout the whole course before getting kicked out. This policy was put into place this last year. Now as student if I struggle in a particular subject, and the only way to gage where I need to improve is on my test results. Now the problem is this school does not return your test results. Making it nearly impossible to help you understand what you failed in and where you need to improve. How am I suppose to know if your system even graded my test answers correctly? Before you decide to get into mass debt and enroll to this school, do some research. Check out the drop rate of this school, and think about the reasons they actually dropped the student. They don’t provide that information, but most them are kicked out because they failed two classes. And these are students that apply themselves to eat and breathe the curriculum that is provided at this school.

After s few months of being kicked out of this school, I have decided to write my own experience with this school. Might help somebody I’m actually very surprised that compared to the amount of students who get kicked out every term, this school has very few reviews in regards to this. I’m not sure why it took me this long to write about my experience with WCU but here you go.
First of all this school is all about MONEY. The first step with WCU is to take and pass the HESI. After you pass the HESI you’re pretty much directed to the financial aid office. this school costs a lot. The admission reps are like car sales people they just want to sign you up.
During my admissions process it was never explained to me that you only have three classes to fail else you will be kicked out, none of the appeals process was explained to me, they give you the student manuals alright not after you’ve signed up and financial aid completed. At the time that I signed up for WCU I had completed all of my pre-​reqs at a JC with a GPA of 3.5 so I pretty much just need my Biochemistry and Pathophysiology which you only can take at WCU.
This school makes changes to their policy almost every term. At the time that I signed up with WCU you could drop one class as many times as you want. This has now been changed you are only allowed to drop one class only one time, keep in mind you only have one teacher teaching each subjects, so if you aren’t doing well in that class because of the teacher, you drop the class you’re pretty much stuck with that teacher and you cannot drop the second time. You also must take an exit exam and pass with 80% after you make it to the top and you youre only allowed to take it twice.
Very few of the teachers are helpful. Louise Jones (med surg 2) and Escalante (Biochemistry)are known to not be helpful especially to the struggling students avoid these teachers if you can; wait there’s only one teacher per course so you are stuck. Louise Jones particularly will give you that look like «why are you so dumb»? But I heard she goes drinking at the bar after school with her favorite students. She is always late for class and acts like a mini god with the worst attitude. Don’t be fooled by her tears on the first day of class due to lots of fail she’s said it she likes when student fail. Most students fail or drop her class. One of the highest in the school.
When I started WCU you are allowed to review your exams so you can see what you did wrong, this school has since changed it because some students were caught with the original copy of a final exams. Those students are still enrolled and soon to graduate because they were Excellent students (I challenge the student service to proof this wrong) I guess if you can cheat your way you will be fine.
Try to contact the dean if you can. She never replies her email and is totally unfriendly towards students.
Unlike community colleges, This school don’t care if you’re a working adult trying to get better in life when it’s time to kick you out you’re dropped like a hot potato. They recently changed their policy you’re now only allowed to fail two classes. And you are only qualified to even appeal if someone in your family dies, someone really immediate. So if your granpa or gradma dies even if they raised you and you consider them your parent your appeal will be denied.
Financial AID: At the time that I enrolled at WCU, financial AID never told me that I will only be getting the Federal student loan for that year. Since I would have maxed out on my federal loan. It wasn’t until the second year did I find out that I no longer qualify for the federal loan which made it even harder for me to quit my job and focus on school like I planned. I started paying $ 3600 per Month in tuition cash. Yes per month which pretty much contributed to me being kicked out because I had to work a lot. If your payment is 5 days late you will be sent to the director’s office and threatened to be dropped from school.
This school is fast paced and you are your own teacher, the teachers read off the power points with very little explanation and it is up to you to figure things out. You pretty much have to cram the materials because it is a lot for 9 weeks and if you have life out of school like work and family it will overwhelm you.
I just wished this school could have helped more. At least accept my appeal and given me one more chance considering the money spent and effort, but it’s all good. I have gone back to JC and I love the pace. If you are going through the same don’t be sad, keep dreaming and don’t give up on your calling.
My advice to those trying to get into this school. Ask lots of questions. Make sure to ask financial aid how much of federal loan you have left. Don’t ever be pushed. Ask questions. Do your homework, check out their drop and graduation %. Goodlck to those still trying to get in, those still hanging in there and to those who graduated. In the end everyone will be alright.

My first impression of this school that it was very nice. You can tell they’ve put in a lot of money into the campus. The staff seemed friendly. The only thing I didn’t like we’re the advisors because they were very pushy and manipulative just as most of these schools are. They told be I had to take the hesi right after my tour, or I should take it because I might pass. Well I drive from Temecula and I didn’t have breakfast or lunch, yeah I know that’s not smart but whatever. So I take the exam and after a couple of hours I don’t pass. I was supposed to come back in to retake but never did because I was told you needed private loans to cover tuition anyways and some of your classes won’t transfer. Looking back at it now, I’m glad I didn’t choose to be 120,000 $ in debt. I’m sure most people would be.

As a graduate and now RN, I can tell you that this school demands work. Most students don’t seem to realize the work and commitment it takes to become an RN. Unfortunately, if you come in with the attitude of «I’m paying enough for this school, therefore, they should pass me» then you will fail. This school, and the faculty, realize the seriousness of caring for a life. They won’t hand you a degree, they give you all the resources needed to succeed. Take advantage of what they offer, instructors are there to teach you what you need to know to properly care for your patients, not just pass you. I highly recommend this school for the students who really want it, and who are willing to sacrifice for it.

Dear perspective student, You’re probably curious right about now about this school. You’ve done your research, and now you’re Unilocaling. You’re hoping to read something negative so you can run away… fast. But you’ve come across some good and some bad reviews and can’t make up your mind. I won’t sit here and type you this long boring compelling story about how once upon a time I was a student there, the ontario campus. I’ll make this short with bullet points to keep you interested. Either way, you’re a big boy/​girl, and you’re going to make the final decision to come here or not. This review is for Nursing BSN, Nursing core portion only.
1) If you compare the Unilocal in retrospect, you will noticed some eh-​okay reviews. Some are from students just starting the program who decided to give Unilocal 4 stars for some apparent reason. They have not finished the program, therefore I think it’s fair not to give 4 stars (yet).
2) The school is unorganized. Policies are constantly being changed including the amount of classes you can fail (C– and below). The students that rated the school 3 plus stars, were the students who were allowed to fail 2 classes way back when (before April, 2014 when the student handbook wasn’t updated yet. Anything after 2014, you will notice a trend of not so happy students and graduation rates) and still had a shot at graduating by chance. In addition, these students had a much smoother curriculum. Some students fail out their 3^rd year with TONS OF DEBT. WCU then started having awful NCLEX rates, therefore changed the policy, and started writing bad tests. You can be the judge on that.
3) Policies changed. Now you can only fail one class, and just like that, they kick you out (60 – 126,000.00 dollars in debt later). Nursing is hard, and it’s not hard to fail an accelerated class.
4) Why are you doing this to yourself? Be patient. I know you want to be an RN. Try to do it the traditional way, the way we all did in college while taking pre-​reqs. It’s life. We all have to wait. Learn from me. Don’t do it! I was curious about coming to WCU just like YOU. I’ve been through this and as well as many others before you.
5) The School is un-​professional. Is this is fashion show (the employees) or nursing school? I’m confused. Oh my bad. I forgot you’re a for-​profit business, so you have to make your establishment sparkle and twinkle to lure students (fishbate) in. Now that’s wicked.
6) The school gets not so bueno clinical sites because bigger better cooler hospitals only cater to traditional non-​profit universities and CC’s. So while everyone else is doing clinicals at kaiser and cedar sinai, WCU people are being sent to places like long term care facilities and not getting any real «clinical experice.» Yes, yes, you will go to smaller hospitals, but nothing fancy. Hospitals dislike WCU.
7) HUGE CHEATING PROBLEM. Period. Teachers know this. Everyone knows this. Do you really want your nurse to be that student who cheated their way through school? Yikes. Didn’t think so. Perhaps I don’t go there anymore because I was honorable enough to not cheat.
8) Just because tuition is outrageous, SOME students feel privileged. In my opinion, they don’t deserve to be there. There’s also a lot of young folk, and it feels like high school at times.
9) The dean is not approachable.
10) As for me? I have a degree in science. I’m not stupid. I am competent and motivated. No matter how hard I tried, tutoring, attended every lecture, studied until my brain exploded, sacrificed my life, my relationship, my everything, I still failed (C-​). I had a life changing event that caused me to under perform academically and I failed ONE class and got kicked out $ 48,000.00 in loans later and thousands out of pocket. I appealed with STRONG proof. Denied. Im not angry but rather relieved that I wasn’t that student that got dismissed $ 100,000.00 later. I’m humble and here to give you a heads up. Think about the debt you’ll be in, or that you’re putting your parents through. Just a thought. My outcome is a combination of WCU making their test impossible to pass, and my life changing event. There’s a small handful of great and deserving students there.
11) Lastly, no one gives a damn if you fail and appeal. No one gives a damn if your mother or kid died, or if your car broke down and you missed your final. Oh, you failed a class? Tough tough. Kicked out of school you go!
Pros: Honestly, not much. I’ve met a few amazing professors that are professionals at night at their own hospital/​place of work, and professors by day. I made a few good friends. Google WCU Lawsuits, and read «All Nurses Blog» on WCU (is WCU worth it) for more insight. In closing, read «reviews not recommended» all the way to the bottom of the Unilocal page.
Good luck in all your endeavors.

First off, the program is an accelerated 9 weeks per term nursing program. 10^th week is either a break or make up for clinical/​classes missed due to holidays or due to the fact that the instructor couldn’t make it to class/​clinical. There is no winter, spring, or summer vacations because every 10 weeks a new term starts. There are couple days off for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
You are allowed to print up to 10 pages per day (when I was there) at the super small library and there was ONLY one printer, not enough study cubicles, it is NOT quiet at all (even though there is a sign that says to be quiet). The library isn’t a REAL library in terms of size and available resources for students. There are couple hundreds students at the school daily and the library can’t accommodate everyone. If your paying expensive money to go there, why is there is a limit of how many you can print per day, such a small space and ONE printer?!?
The dinning commons isn’t large enough for the amount of students at the school. I don’t understand why it can’t be larger and have more tables and chairs. They do have vending machines if you want to purchase snacks.
Most of the instructors I had were great instructors and they were helpful. The nutrition class instructor was awesome. In my opinion, some of them didn’t really know how to teach. I was in the LVN-​BSN track and we had to take a skills class. The instructor was getting all of us confused because the instructor was getting herself confused. From what I have seen, the nursing department is poorly run. The Dean of Nursing is nice but not accommodating in my opinion. The instructors at the school do not do what they teach the students. If you teach your students to be compassionate, caring, nice, and etc traits of a nurse, they should show that to the students but they do not. Some of the instructors do what they teach but not all. Here is an example:
I had an unforeseen circumstance that occurred and missed the final and group presentations. The Dean of nursing let me take the make up exam after providing proof and filling out paper work of why I missed the class that day but for the presentation part, I got a zero while my group got a good score. I asked if I could do an alternative assignment due to an unforeseen circumstance which prevented me from getting to school and attend class that day. I was told no by the instructor, dean of nursing and the director. They told me that unfortunately, nothing can be done because you were not present. Of course I wasn’t there because of unforeseen circumstance. They apparently don’t care to make accommodations. They just care about the money. I told the student services director of my situation and they gave me an answer but it didn’t make sense. Sounded like they made the answer up. I talked to other instructors and students at other nursing schools and was told that is unacceptable and ridiculous. My friends told me that their school would not give a zero for an unforeseen circumstance with supporting documentation.
Tutoring sessions for some classes helped but not for all classes. You are allowed only 1 fail for the whole program. I think that is hard for an accelerated nursing program. It used to be on the 3^rd fail you are out of the program. You must have an average of 76% or higher to pass the classes. When I was there, you had to get at least an 80% or higher for each exam.
I am no longer at the school due to issues and other stuff that happened. I had less than a year left. The nursing program at WCU isn’t for everyone. I don’t know how the other WCU campuses are run but the ONT campus isn’t that great. Majority of the WCU staff were very helpful but only some of the nursing faculty were helpful.

If I could give this school no star I would. I was a student there for 2 ½ years and finally left, the administration was so horrible and due to a huge cheating problem and low NCLEX passing scores they made the classes impossible to pass. The graduation rate is less than 19%, every person I know has failed out, and they were not stupid people by any means. The nursing Dean, Gloria Huerta, has been turned into the ethics committee by almost every student there. They will tell you anything to get you in and once they have your money all help pretty much ceases to exist. Half the professors hate the deans and the students suffer for it. I had no job, no kids, no partner and I dedicated every waking moment to studying for those classes and I still couldn’t pass. They require a 76% average on every test or you fail the class and in a 3 yr accelerated program you are allowed to fail 1 class. It’s impossible.
The majority of the students fail out in their last year with 80,000 in student loan debt and no way to transfer classes. That school ruins lives. If I could save just one person from making the same mistakes I did this was worth it.

I wanted to review to program to try to inform people who were considering going to WCU for their nursing career. I’ve been attending for about a year and half and have a year left the overall consensus from the majority of the students that attend is that they would NOT attend again if they knew how the Ontario Campus was run. I cannot speak for the other Campuses but I would not recommend the Ontario one.
I did not mind paying the tuition because I thought it was worth the price, unfortunately once I was in the actual nursing program I was extremely disappointed with how the program was run and the attitude of the nursing administration.
The nursing department is extremely poorly run, the Dean of nursing Gloria Huerta has created a negative environment which seemly has created a US vs Them mentality for majority of the students in the nursing program. Examples being:
I was scheduled to take Fundamentals of Nursing on a Monday from 1 pm to 6 pm, my schedule set 3 weeks in advance and had everything prepared. The Saturday before the 1^st day of class a email was sent out stating that the teacher was on vacation for the 1^st 3 weeks of school and that the class time had been changed to 8 am to 1 pm. The email stated the reason and said thank you for your flexibility, I was extremely upset for the last minute change and the school did not try to amend the situation. Another issue was that the term is only 9 weeks long, and for the ¹⁄₃^rd of the term we had a different teacher every each class.
The Dean of Nursing will not try to help nursing students with their schedules for whatever reason. I know three classmates who had scheduling conflicts due and wanted to switch classes to another day the dean denied all requests although the classes were not full. When I attended class that day I was shocked to see that half the class was empty, she could have easily switched the students into the class to accommodate them but for whatever reason she refused.
The Dean talks down to students and calls them incompetent… I have had two friends who did not pass a nursing class when having to re take it and wanting to add another class to their schedule (the school charges by term not units or class so 1 term will cost 3500 regardless of number of classes you take) Dean Huerta did not allow them stating that they did not pass the class originally and they were incompetent… Their GPA’s prior to failing the 1 nursing class was 3.9 and 3.6.
Faculty: Many of the teachers at WCU Ontario are 1^st year teachers or have not taught the class before. The classes are not even their area of expertise, I had a amazing nutrition teacher who specialiszd in pediatrics for whatever reason they had her teach Nutrition even when the current pediatrics teacher left for another school. There was also a new pharm teacher who did not know the material and would often avoid questions over 80% of her class was failing through half the course and countless of students complained the Dean did nothing and eventually the teacher made the tests easier and gave «tutoring» to students which allowed the majority of the class to pass.
Tutoring: During your tour the advisor will try to sell you on tutoring… after going to a few tutoring sessions I realized that the schools definition of tutoring is pretty much a study guide and going over exactly what’s on the exam. The Pharm teacher that had half her class failing? Well she eventually started pretty much giving the exact question and answer in her tutoring sessions, I have heard from countless students from her class tell me that’s how they passed, my friend told me she wasnt even passing half way though and the teacher told her to go to tutoring she ended up getting a 97.5 on the final. I can also speak from experience that many teachers do this or tell you key points to focus on in tutoring, if you study those you’ll get an B or A.
There is more to add but it’s already pretty long I’ll update this later but I would highly recommend looking into another school or campus

I am a recent graduate (June) from the Ontario campus.
I began pre-​requisite courses at Chaffey College & when I could not get into Microbiology for 2 semesters is when I looked into WCU. Immediately I was apprehensive because of the tuition, but I made a decision to take this nursing thing serious. When I began I only needed 2 terms (4 months) of classes before entering the nursing core curriculum.
The core nursing classes are intense, along with a heavy workload. Most of the professors were nice & well educated with many years experience. Some professors were even furthering their education in a doctorate program. I am well prepared to work as an entry level nurse & feel that the time & effort spent at this school advanced me to critically think & demonstrate great leadership skills.
This was my life from November 2011-​June 2013:
Study hours per week: 25 – 30 hours
Hours spent on campus/​week: 20 – 30 hrs
Family time /​week: 1 – 5 hrs
Me time: 0
Bottom line;this school is not easy but worth the stress, anxiety, time,& effort. Anything worth achieving takes patience, effort, strength,& continuity.
BTW I took boards last week & passed :) iam officially a RN. WCU REALLY PREPARES YOU TO PASS NCLEX & become a safe nurse.

I am a recent graduate from the BSN program on this campus.
First, you must realize that this is an accelerated BSN program, not ADN. If you are not prepared to put in the time and focus in an accelerated program, look elsewhere. Class times and days are picked for you, but you do have an opportunity to change days/​times with another person if there is another class available. I have had professors that I liked and others not so much, but it’s the same with any other school that you go to. I had great clinical instructors and learned a lot on my clinical rotations.
Tuition is high. It’s a private school, shouldn’t that explain enough? The focus of this school is nursing. There is no need for a huge campus like a traditional university or community college. The campus is nice and well maintained. Most of the equipment works most of the time. Sometimes stuff gets broken when a lot of people use it. It sucked when they stopped letting us use the elevators, but it’s understandable when idiots started tagging them up.
After graduation I have been notified of job opportunities and career fairs. They even offer live reviews after graduation to assist with the NCLEX. I passed the NCLEX on my first try, which is what this school prepares you for. So I’m giving them 5 stars, because without this school I wouldn’t have my degree and license.