Unitek College

I’m sure people who have given Unitek college a bad review are people who are not dedicated and got kicked out of the program for failing! I am doing the LVN program at Unitek college (half way through the program) and I’m loving it. However, This school is not for everyone. Love the staff! The ladies at the front desk are amazing, and Scott King is always very helpful and approachable. I have met many Unitek graduates and they are all very knowledgable. I do NOT regret coming here. Recommend it if you have a passion for nursing. :) totally worth my 30k

I just had a horrible experience at this school. All the students in the prerequisites got lied to. We all got totally different information of the starting date of the core and the spots that are available. Some were told we had a guaranteed spot for the November core start program if we paid for the pre reques. Others were told the next core program starts in January and as well were told if they paid for ten pre reques the there spot was guaranteed. Well come to find out, as we are all starting to talk and get to know each other. We were exchanging info. And this got to the ears of the admission administrator Rickie. He then came to informe us that intact there was no spots left for November 16 2015 core program. And that the next core program wasn’t until maybe March 2015. And they did not yet have a set date. And that program only had 30 seats available. There is 46 students in our pre reques class. He then said. They enroll all this students because they don’t expect for all of them to actually pass. Which is bull shit. One he should of never of said that. They should have faith in all the students applying and entering. Two many students quit there jobs with the assumption that they will be starting within a month or two. We all made daily life changes accommodate the schedule. For them to throw us off like that .
So fellow students applying or looking into this school. Assure ur self that the information is correct and they don’t mislead you just to get ur money !!! Be careful! Don’t let this happen to you ! Besides all that. I felt the front desk receptionist were awesome ! Very polite girls. The teachers (for the 3 days I was there) were good! Lots of info to learn. But they were I my opinion good teachers.

I have put a lot of thought into my last review and even though everything I said was true, I do not believe I was being fair. Unitek failed to prepare my class for the exit exam; however, they have tried very hard to correct the student/​school misunderstanding of ATI guidelines by having tutors readily available for the students if needed, having books available for renting, and creating a schedule for the students to do their remediation and study for the exit exam a second time. They are constantly contacting me to help me prepare for the ATI and the majority of my class that failed has passed a second time with very high scores. The students from my class who did pass the ATI the first time have also passed The NCLEX the first time as well. If I was to choose a profit based school, I would choose Unitek because of their involvement about the students passing NCLEX and prepping for job opportunities. I am still very upset over how majority of my class failed the exit exam, but I am also very impressed with how the school is trying to get all their students prepared for the ATI and how well all the students are scoring the second time.

Everything that I have said in my previous review was my class’s actual experience and that won’t change. However, I would like to update on how the school has worked on helping students after graduation.
Nearly 60% of my class had failed the exit ATI exam and as a result, had to go through remediation to pass and qualify to sit for the NCLEX-​PN. The school kept in contact with the remediating students and after 1 – 2 months, many of them were able to retake the exit exam and now onto the NCLEX.
On my end, I’m not going to lie and say that Unitek hasn’t prepared me for my state board exam at all… Because they did. The process of being a student here was not great, but in the end, I did learn. I did pass the NCLEX. And now, I just got my first nursing job. Monica Deras of career services as been helping me with the job hunt and has been nothing but helpful, along with Scott King.
I believe every school makes mistakes, but it’s about what the school does about it that counts in the end. Unitek does have the potential to be a great nursing school in the future.

I am trying to possibly work out issues with Unitek. I will hold off on all comments for now.

I have friends who are students at this school and I have friends who are instructors at this school. Speaking as an observer who has heard both sides, I have to say I am shocked they are still in business. Yes, this is a for-​profit business and the bottom line is to make money. But to be a good business you also need to take care of your customers (the students) and your employees. From what I see, the only goal of unitek is to collect money.
A few examples. The students were not properly prepped for final exit exams (the version of the exam given being changed with no warning to the students, causing an unusually high failure rate, with minimal assistance and followup for a chance to retake the test so the students can move on and start their career). The testing facility (computer lab) is forever crashing and failing, leaving students having to retake tests in an already stressful situation.
On the employee side, unbelievably poor management. The turn over rate of instructors is outrageous! Instructors on average stay with the school for less than a year. That alone should tell you something. I only feel bad for the students who have already given them their money and cannot quit.

Do not go to this school. After working so hard, studing long nights, pulling all nighters, commuting 40 – 50 miles every day, and learning so much, they kicked me out of the LVN program after making it to the 3^rd semester and when I had only a few weeks left of graduation! I’m still curentul paying my student loans and I still don’t have a degree! Asswholes! They pick they’re favorites there that’s for sure!

I had very high hope for this school but I went and took a tour it was just ok it was weird to me that it was in old office buildings? I felt like I was back in high school with kids running around yet they are adults? I decided to go another route and very happy with my choice.

I do see that my advisor and the director of the program are now putting in the effort to make my experience a better one, and this I appreciate immensely. I am putting my faith in my advisor and the director to work together and make the June start date happen for me. As bummed as I was to have not made it into the February start date, I truly hope that I have no issues in June. I hope in the end of this, I can come back and write another update saying how awesome the school and staff are.

I was planning to come to this school but after hearing all the negative experience and comments, I’m changing my mind on this school.

I am in my third module of my six mod Medical assisting program. Over all this place can be decent but it has flaws too. Financially this was something I could afford, MA program cost a little over 11,000 but with finical aid covering half I only have to pay about six thousand out of pocket, I took a student loan and with ten years to pay it off I decided it was not too bad. The program itself is informative and hands on. we practice injections on each other in lab almost every day in every class. Sometimes I come home a little bruised from my classmates making minor mistakes but I’m sure Ive given plenty of bruises out myself but nothing serious, labs are very safe. We have plenty of time to work on homework in class.
There is plenty of online and computer work to do every class so we are equipped with computers, the only thing was that our internet was very slow and often did not work for periods of time. They tried to fix it once sense I have been here but after the two visits from the technician they just stopped and we still had very limited and slow internet access, and non of the staff seemed to care much about it because the other classes and their office computers were doing just fine fine. Wireless connection was much better so I started bringing a laptop like many of my peers did.
Our class itself got along very well but for some reason we kept having trouble with the other LVN classes. There are two refrigerators in the lunch room but everyone packs it with lunch and there have been problems with missing food. We were given public announcements about a lot of problems I personally thought should have just been discussed with between the student and teacher.
Things are switched around pretty often here, my instructor often didn’t even know about changed to the schedules until the day of lectures and even before exams. She had to type up an exam for us once because her lectures that week did not match the exam we were going to take that day.
The work itself is not hard, just tedious. Its hands on and comprehensive, but the equipment, students and staff were a little wishy washy for me.

I had to think long and hard about this particular review as I really hate having to give a bad or mediocre review. Keep in mind this is only for the enrollment process.
At the onset of discussing attending their program, I had asked what their recency requirement would be for classes. I was advised it was 10 years.
When I came in for my first two appointments, I was impressed with the professionalism of the enrollment representative and the young lady who oversaw the entrance testing. So up to that point everything would have been a 5 star.
Where everything went hokey was the financial end of things. When reviewing my financial aid including student loans, etc, I was advised how much additional I would have to pay out of pocket, beyond student loans and any federal financial aid. In the course of this discussion, I advised the financial aid representative that I had a competitive grant that I had already confirmed could be applied to my bill at Unitek and offered to assist in coordinating sine this was an additional $ 4500.00 and it had to be used this semester. She blew it off and when I brought it up again later in the conversation again blew it off as if what I was saying had nothing to do with what we were discussing. Mind you this would have dropped the out of pocket beyond financial aid down from the original almost $ 8000.00 to roughly $ 3500.00, so obviously this was pertinent. As part of this out of pocket amount, she advised me I would have to pay $ 3150.00 for their precursor class of Medical Terminology even though I had completed it a year ago at ARC (a community college which is transferable everywhere and not a competing trade school). Uhm, what happened to the not having to repeat anything within the recency requirement? When I advised her of this, she again reacted and responded as if what I said was useless information. Instead, she informed me everyone has to take this course. Apparently, end of story in her book.
I went home and after reviewing my options, including paying $ 3300.00 up front and making payments of well over $ 500 a month for eight months or taking out an additional student loan through Salliemae, I opted to simply not do this program which is unfortunate as this was looking to be a promising program since it fit with my schedule and I had a coworker who had completed their Bay Area campus’ nursing program and loved it. My final reasoning was basically if they could not get the financial end of it straight and adhere to their own policies regarding recency requirements, then how could I trust them with the educational part? Hence the 2 stars.

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I attended the LVN program in 2010 – 2011. I graduated, passed my NCLEX exam and have a job. The program is FULL TIME isn’t easy but I would recommend the program to anyone who is serious, has the time to dedicate, and can handle the accelerated program. I had Ms Adams, Ms Williams, and Ms Donnelly as my instructors.