Nova Southeastern University — Local services in Davie

NSU is all about looks! I have been attending Nova on and off since 2009. What I love the most about it is the professors. You go to college for the education and at NSU you will certainly get that. However, everything else about the university is horrible. The staff sucks. Financial Aid was of no help the entire time I was there. My student advisor; simply clueless. I had to tell her half of the time what I needed to graduate. The veteran liaison was always behind. I never got my benefits in a timely manner. If you are looking for a veteran friendly school, NSU is not the place. The availability of classes is very minimum. Some classes are only available every other year. Class scheduling other laps. Many times there is two different courses within the same discipline that are scheduled at the same exact time with no other scheduled time. Therefore, you find yourself putting a totally irrelevant course on your schedule just to fill up empty space to receive funding. The course work is usually graded with attendance as a percentage of your grade. College is supposed to be a place where you are responsible for yourself. But at Nova you will be treated like a child. I lost so many grade points because of attendance or tardiness. I may have gotten an A on the assignments but I was absent too many times so I have a C now. They offer more mini semester (8 week) courses than full semester and that is also a problem with scheduling. The library is awesome but the computers are slow and the printers break too often. Public transportation users aren't accounted for. If you catch public transportation you may find yourself walking a nice distance to actually get on the campus itself. The food court options are not great; okay at best. The food, along with everything else, is overpriced. The social life is very cliquish. Without being in a club, fun activities are out of the question. I would say that most students miss out on the "college experience" part of going to college when coming to NSU. It catered to a certain kind of people; the more bourgeois personality. I don't think the actual life skills necessary to survive in the global economy and employment market will be attained at Nova. I believe there is much unnecessary burdens place on NSU's students and it will be a hinder to the student's success. NSU is not for people of a mature age. It just is not accommodating to the more experience crowd. Teenagers may love it at Nova fresh out of high school, however, the working mom without a vehicle will not be too impressed. The technology is lacking behind immensely. Buildings continue to be erected without addressing to true needs of its most important assets: the instructors and the students. Some buildings are old and in need of major renovation. Most buildings do not connect so have an umbrella on hand at all times in case of rain otherwise you may get stuck. This place has lost and cost me money. The departments other than academics such as administrative offices are very slow and inefficient when processing important paper work. They're very incompetent.

If you are looking for prestige and want to be able to say that you went to a private university, then Nova's your place. If you want to get a good education at high price and minimum assistance, then Nova's the school. But, if you want to have the true college experience while getting a wonderful education and great support from faculty, staff, and students, the it would be advantageous for you to forget about NSU and look elsewhere.

Nova Southeastern University has been by far the most difficult easiest place to operate and succeed at in my life. By the way, I'm a Veteran, Councilman, a former college graduate and a family man. So, trust me when I tell you that this school's moto should be "unnecessary hardship".

I get NSU a rating of 1 star because other than its professors who have compromised their teaching methods to accommodate the institution's policies, Nova is no more than smoke...

More than 5 years ago I was accepted on dentistry program as a patient. One tooth was really problematic and I told the student that root canals is not an option for me, and if they insist of doing the root canal, to tell me that and I would sign off from the program. One day, the professor in charge for our section was busy and another professor came to check on me. I talked to him and I told him the same thing as I told before to student Ryan. While a was switching chairs, he told Ryan to use material on that problematic tooth that would kill my nerve (as preparation for the root canal). What this professor didn't know was that I've already signed the plan that considered saving the tooth in whole an no root canal option. The student just supposed to fix the temporary filling he put before, but, without my knowledge he put what this corruptive professor told him. The professor that was in charge for our section, asked student if he was going to just replace the same material, and the student said no, the other professor said to put the other material (preparation to kill the nerve). The professor in charge raised his voice: "What?" and then said "Well ok, if he said that..." Ryan replaced materials, and within 2-3 weeks I got terrible sensations in all my left lobe, up and down in my face. All nerves reacted because this killing material supposed to be removed by then, but they kept it as temporary because the signed planed in their system was showing that. I ran from the parking to get inside and have them remove the material (I still didn't know what was going on with me) and try to help me. They admitted me, but the main professor (could be for the shift) was called and here where the real devil shows up. They reviewed documents in the system and realized they were about to end up in court. They were separating from me several times (I was sitting on the chair in pain, waiting for them just to remove the material and figure out the following time I come in), so I started realizing what actually happened and this main professor confirmed to me that the tooth was the preparation for the root canal, before he stood away from me first time. Since they were coming back and fourth few times, each time I asked them to just remove it, because I wasn't able to handle the pain and it was so odd to have the wide sensation, that was not located only around one tooth. When I was pressing the spot right next to my nose on the left side, I was able to feel pulsing sensation on the tooth that was 3 teeth away from that spot. Last time this main guy came, he came with the ultimatum, to remove all my teeth surfaces, wherever I fill sensation and pain reminding me that we had only 5 min left before the shift ends. And if I don't, I can then go to any other dentist and I would be kicked out from their program. So I left, without being able to tell anything to the evil that was looking at me and raising the voice at me. Ryan gave me business card for emergency and some other professor dentist gave me his business card. I went to work and the day after I called 50 times emergency department and 50 times the dentist from the school. No one picked up nor called me back after I left several VM. I went to some other dentist and he confirmed that the tooth was dead, he removed the material and put temporary material to calm the tooth down and nerves. I ended up with root canal, and this tooth had 2 roots. The cleaning of the canal was done without anesthesia and I didn't feel a thing (to the surprise of the dentist who was doing the root canal). The is still only one tooth with root canal I have. I remember also while I was there, that a lot, if not every patient was ending up getting at least one root canal at Nova program..... Sapienti Sat! Parents: DO NOT SEND YOUR KIDS TO THAT SCHOOL, IT IS THE NEST OF CORRUPTION. Patients: GO SOMEWHERE ELSE, SAVE YOUR TEETH. Students: PLEASE CHOOSE...

I am a potential online transfer student from another university and I am hesitant to proceed with my application. When applying online, I have received little to limited communication from the university on how to proceed.

First, they had assigned a counselor that no longer works there. Then when I attempted to contact the new counselor, in a not so friendly tone, she forwarded me to Admissions for requirements that were unknown to me. I then contacted Admissions and the receptionist there told me I needed to provide them with a Transfer Report from my prior university. My previous university forwarded the Transfer Report to Nova and I have yet received a phone call nor an email confirming receipt of the form and how to proceed.

Granted, I also have an application pending at FIU and FIU has been communicating with me and guiding me through the admissions process since the beginning. They assigned me a representative which has been the go to person for everything and he remains contacting me and encouraging me to proceed with FIU. I had a similar positive experience with my previous university where I was guided through the entire process and always had a representative working with me every semester.

I'm very surprised that this university being triple the price of the others does not have organization. I am a 50 year old long life learner and have been in the corporate environment for many years. I find this lack of organization, communication and follow up unprofessional and unacceptable for a university. I am extremely interested in the program I am registering in, but am very hesitant in proceeding.

If things improve in the application process, I will update my review, but so far I am very unsatisfied on how an application for a new online student is being handled. I am sure that Nova loses many potential students due to this...