ECPI University — Attraction in Mauldin

I graduated from this school as a nurse last year. Overall, my experience has been great (education wise). You certainly get what you pay for and most of the teachers I’ve had were amazing, friendly and give back to you exactly what work you put in to help yourself. They lost quite a few good teachers that I was sad to see leave. However, their individual knowledge and expertise led me to success in my current field and I definitely think I’ve retained a lot of what I had to learn so quickly. The accelerated program has made me more adaptable/resilient in my work place. There were a few things I struggled with throughout because the school was making changes to their program and how they teach (platforms they use, materials etc) which made it difficult to stay on track but was ultimately to help us and future students succeed. My biggest complaint that I struggled with my entire enrollment was working with the finance department, they were terribly understaffed and never available past 11am. As a veteran, I’ve had the benefit of using the GI BILL… however, while the school was making money on their end from my benefits, I didn’t get my housing allowance for the first three months of school and wasn’t working due to being in a full-time educational program (fortunately, I had a good savings acct to take care of myself and family) but there was ZERO VA representatives to help me navigate this issue on how to fix it and no one in the finance department could or would prioritize helping me, even though I showed up every day in one of their offices to offer whatever I could on my end to get it taken care of quickly. I was an “A” student that feared having to drop out of the program I worked so hard to be in so I could support my family before my money was completely gone. They lost my paperwork countless times and that paperwork had personal information that could’ve lead to identity theft. I also applied for the pell grant and that alone took 7 months to receive…not to mention how long it took to get it filed due to “lost paperwork,” or finance staff members blaming other staff members for not doing “this or that.” I heard nightmare stories from other fellow students that threatened to keep them from graduating- from “lost paperwork” once again, to finances that weren’t filed correctly and went unnoticed for months… only for the financial department to say “pay thousands of dollars by this date or don’t graduate.” This experience with finance alone scares me and will keep me from going back to get my BSN at this school. There’s too much stress in an accelerated program already to have to worry about if your money is being take care of...

The University itself is awesome, the instructors go out of their way to help you meet your goals in order to graduate and be successful. However once you graduate the career recruiter is suppose to help you get into a career of your major. Needless to say I graduated a year in half ago, and yet still unemployed. The career recruiter does absolutely nothing to help you get a job; most of the time doesn’t even return your calls. Once you go over their head to get results the career recruiter will email you a few job links but other than that, that’s about it.

I completely understand the economy isn’t in the best conditions but most of the people who are receiving jobs it’s because they know someone directly or have a connection on the inside. I don’t feel the career recruiter is really helping by emailing a few job links. This only allows you to get lost in the flooded resume pile that the companies are already receiving. The whole point of having a recruiter is to basically cut out the middle man, and help you get noticed. That kind of service hasn’t been provided to me or any other students I graduated with. Some of my former classmates are working now (because of the jobs they found own their own), but was forced to take any job that could get. Unfortunately most are making the same or even less than what they was earning before they even received their degrees.

When considering going back to college make sure you do your research on EVERYTHING, and not just the academics program. The academics are great, but once you’re finished your own your own, which is sad because the university got paid well for my education. Overall I rate the university at a 4. I loved the university as well as the instructors but the after experience...

ECPI is certainly not at the top but certainly not at the bottom like many make it out to be. I think that you get your money's worth. Unfortunately, I believe the president bags all of the money. It would be a better school if they actually used the money we pay. However, the teachers are great for the most-part. There were a few that were a bit off the wall; but you'd find that in a larger university too. Having been to several other larger universities I can say that they have their share of weird, bad teachers too.

The education was good. Obviously, I think that more information would have stuck if I spent more time with it, but this is accelerated learning. So, I can't complain. The 1 on 1 time with the teachers makes up for the lack of time on a subject in my opinion. Overall, it's not a bad school. they do things differently which is okay.

Those that don't get much out of it don't put much into it. If they don't learn it is their own fault. The information is there. I've sat in several classes with students who claim not to learn stuff but then again never try and are playing...