EFSC Melbourne - Health Science Center — Local services in Melbourne

★☆☆☆☆ (Graduated 2025, Nursing Program)

If you’re considering this college’s nursing school, you can do better. I graduated with a 3.6 GPA in my 40’s—I wasn’t a slacker or someone looking to blame others. I worked hard, passed my classes, and still feel deeply disappointed in the quality of this program. The issues are not isolated; they are structural.

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Advising is Either Hostile or Useless • Nursing advisor: condescending and dismissive. During a scheduled 30-minute meeting, I was scolded for asking open-ended questions. I was told her time was too valuable for anything but yes-or-no answers—she was clearly more interested in ending the appointment early than actually advising. • General advising: friendly but uninformed. Multiple advisors told me, word-for-word, “We don’t know what the prerequisites for the nursing program are.” How are students supposed to plan their education when even the staff doesn’t know the requirements?

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Professors Were Not Trained on the Software They’re Required to Use

Canvas is the main learning platform, yet many instructors clearly had no idea how to use it. Important links didn’t work. Assignments were posted with no instructions. Grades were often late or missing. It created unnecessary stress every week, and it’s clear the administration wasn’t willing to provide adequate tech training.

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The Nursing Program is Disorganized and Out of Touch • The director of the nursing program is out of sync with what students actually need to succeed. There was no structured NCLEX prep, no test strategy support, and little focus on critical thinking—just rigid, outdated content delivery. • Instructors often acted unprofessionally. For example: more than once, I was given a two-hour exam—but partway through, the instructor would cut the time short without warning. One even told the class we had 15 minutes left, then left early to go home. These weren’t one-offs—they were part of a pattern of poor planning and disregard for students’ success.

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You’ll Graduate—But You’ll Be on Your Own

Yes, if you work hard, you can earn your degree. But make no mistake: you will be teaching yourself for large chunks of the program. If you want a nursing school that actually prepares you to be a nurse—this isn’t it.

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Bottom line: There are better nursing programs with staff who support students and care about outcomes. This program isn’t just disappointing—it’s disorganized, outdated, and at times openly disrespectful. Choose another...

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