Fairleigh Dickinson University-Metropolitan Campus

"You started off as 10 and now you are down to 9. Let's see how many of you make it past this semester." Those are the words of a real professor. I've never seen such glee in failing students. I also agree with the comment about teaching yourself. Some instructors are only there to scare you into teaching yourself and then failing you. Some instructors literally do not teach. It's an abusive atmosphere.

The faculty are a mixed bag with more than a few bullies that are apparently allowed to caryr on as they wish. Very, very poor. The ABSN program is used as a recruitment tool into the 2 year program, so there is little incentive to pass you. Go elsewhere.

No one should attend any nursing program at Fairleigh Dickinson. The 4-year, 2-year and 1-year programs are so poor that attrition begins in the first few weeks. The rates of attrition in each program are well over 70%. The faculty should not be teaching because they do not know the subject matter. They can't answer questions nor can they even clarify a difficult concept when asked. You literally end up teaching yourself and in these programs, that will not make you a successful nurse - it will make you a dangerous nurse. One that makes mistakes because you weren't taught properly from the beginning. Lab settings are gaspingly bad with broken mannequins, broken wheelchairs, beds that can't go up and down and lab instructors that leave for hours and are nowhere to be found for questions. We were learning bed-to-wheelchair transfers in wheelchairs that couldn't lock! Never did we hear abnormal lung or heart sounds because the mannequins were not working. In addition to the lack of teaching, overall laziness and broken lab equipment, you are screamed at constantly and this we never understood. It certainly wasn't to "toughen us up" because we were all coming from other careers with serious college degrees in-hand having chosen this next challenging career willingly. The conduct of the faculty was verbally abusive, pure and simple. Much too much money to give an organization that delivers nothing in return. Please go anywhere else because after many of us sitting with the nursing administration, they made it clear that they didn't care and weren't going to make changes to inept faculty, broken equipment, or abusive behaviors. I walked away (with a refund) and will be giving my money to their competitors.