West Coast University

West Coast University is a money making school. They just want your money. They don’t give sympathy to their students. If you fail a class they won’t even let you talk to your professor to check what causes your failure. They inform you last minute that you don’t make it and you are not allowed to attend your next class anymore. They accept students then in the middle of the year they fail the students and get new students to get more money. Their clinical dean B. Bickley is very unprofessional and arrogant. I don’t even know why she has given that positioned. WCU should evaluate her performance. She picked people who she wants to talk to.
Bickley will make WCU to fall.

I just completed my first year of the MS occupational therapy program. I have never received an education with such care quality like I have at WCU. The faculty knows all students on a personal level, and they are dedicated to student success. There is not another school that I would choose to be apart of. I am very thankful to be a student at WCU, especially in the MSOT program.

West Coast’s bsn program is relatively new and not much is known about it, so thats why i wanted to write this review.
The BSN program is 3 years and upon completion you will be able to take the NCLEX. All the prerequisites are built into the program, but if you have taken any of these prerequisites at a university or community college within 5 years, you can transfer them in and save a significant amount of money. There is no waiting list and they accept students every 10 weeks but know that this program is VERY EXPENSIVE. Around $ 126,000 if your not transferring in any classes. In my case, the cost is worth it b/​c im registered in both calstatela and PCC and its impossibe just to get into the prereq classes b/​c of all the budget cuts. and even if you complete them, there will still be a waiting list for the actual nursing program. So ultimately, West Coast is the quickest route to an RN licence. But also know that at this point in time (june ’10) this BSN is not recognized at other universities to get ur masters degree in nursing.
Also, assuming most students will finance this education, the school pulls normal federal stafford loans and you pull private loans to cover the difference. on these private loans, most lenders will now require a co-​signer (even if u have good credit).
But anticipate paying a couple thousand dollars more on books and other“additional fees”. The school tries to bloodsuck students at every opportunity they get.