Marquette University College of Nursing

I had a great experience at Marquette. I completed their fast track Master's degree program so I got my nursing license in 4 semesters and then continued on to complete my Masters in Nurse-Midwifery. My instructors were terrific. My clinical placements were varied and at great hospitals and clinics where I got to participate in surgeries and procedures and really learn from experienced nurses how to care for complex patients. I liked the student organizations and joined a choir. I lived on campus the first year. Milwaukee is a fun place to live. I made great friends in the program who I am still in contact with. The Marquette Nursing Program is great! I highly recommend it.

My wife went to Marquette Nursing School. She hated it. The instructors were completely unorganized and unprofessional. They would change plans and assignment due dates seemingly at random. There were times where she had an assignment to do that was due on a Saturday, but she couldn't start on it until Friday when it became "open" in the computer system so that she could see the requirements. Sometimes instructors wouldn't even fix grades on tests when the question on the exam was incorrect. She had to drive 3 hours one-way for some of her clinicals, work for 12 hours, then drive 3 hours back because the instructors were too lazy to try to find local hospitals that would allow the students to shadow working nurses. One of the of the instructors even told some of the students "The degree you're earning is worthless. No one is going to want to hire you."

Terrible nursing program with unprofessional faculty. I ended up transferring out to a much better program in California.