Galen College of Nursing - San Antonio

"Madison M. Is the most thorough patient and kind financial aid representative here at Galen in San Antonio campus. I have good experiences with all them so far but Madison went above and beyond for me. I won't forget that. Shout out to Madison!!!"

"If you’re trying to waste your time and money please apply to this school. This place is a money printing machine for the people that run this worthless school. I was literally getting 90s on every single exam during the semester and magically got a 60 on my final exams, literally half the class failed the final. Not once but twice while going to this stupid school. Everyone in class felt they did good on the exams, so we asked them to let us look at the exams to see what we missed and they wouldn’t let us. Only one word for this garbage school… SCAM!!!"

"100k in total for BSN program They let anybody in because It’s owned by HCA one of the lowest corporations in the healthcare industry. After HCA purchased majority stake in galen it has dropped in quality the main director Dr Kiss left then 6 instructors quit. Galen raised Tuition 3 times in a year knowing most people will feel they are in too deep to quit. Instructors are mainly just people who should have retired and won’t work with you. You can’t review testing materials because they want to reserve their ability to let anybody go after they have made money from them. The program is the biggest scam they dismiss people close to graduation if they have repeated 2 classes instead of when they failed them, this allows them to continue to make money. There’s tons of higher paying careers in healthcare, make a better choice. There’s nursing shortage for a reason. Go RadTech, nuclear tech, pharmacy assistant, dental hygienist all of these make 100k+ easy and are doable without 100k of debt. Also go work in hospital and talk to nurses before even applying to nursing schools."

"Would Not recommend! The new program director is rude and condescending. She had me unenrolled the day before finals and the last day of class for an error in attendance. I had proof on my phone I was in class. She ignored me told me to take it up with the instructor who was quitting anyway so he didn't care. Then come to find out the same instructor was counting me present back in the fall when I had dropped the class and had proof. so she would not let me continue after being half way done with the program. Even though it was an error on her instructors."

"100% recommend this school if you are a LVN wanting to bridge over to RN. It took me 18 months total. Definitely felt like 18 weeks. Time flies! It was super easy to transfer prior college credits. All of my classes the first three quarters were online. Once I began on campus, it was mostly for exams and clinicals. The last two quarters required a bit more time on campus for lecture, lab, testing, and clinical rotation at the hospital. I was able to maintain my full time job throughout the program. I started out working night shift and then moved to weekends at work. Weekend hours at work worked out for me because I was free during the week for everything school related. The instructors are amazing and help you to succeed. If you’re ready to put in the work, you will absolutely be successful in this program. It’s not difficult. I learned so much and felt 100% prepared for the NCLEX and to get out there and practice an an RN! I passed the NCLEX a few weeks after graduation, on my first attempt. I made the DEANs list multiple times!!!"