Walden University Reviews

“I am very disappointed with my experience. I have felt unsupported and unheard when trying to resolve issues. Communication has been slow or nonexistent, especially regarding important matters like reaffirmation and account concerns. I am also frustrated that I cannot access my transcripts due to what I believe is an error on the school’s part. This has negatively impacted me and caused unnecessary stress. It feels like financial matters are prioritized over student support, and that has made me feel like my success is not truly valued. I would like to see better communication, accountability, and timely assistance for students.”

Review: A Profit-First Model That Leaves Students Stranded. If I could do it all over again, I would choose a non-profit university with a long-standing history of educating Nurse Practitioners. My experience with Walden University has been defined by a lack of support, hidden costs, and a "for-profit" mentality that prioritizes trimming overhead over student success.

While I had a great experience with my enrollment specialist, my academic experience was mixed. Several of the professors were excellent- communication was clear and feedback easy to understand. Other professors were more difficult, often mixing "general" information not applicable to me with feedback intended for me, which made it frustrating to make shifts. I am thinking perhaps AI is doing the grading. In any case, it's hit or miss.

The process of securing a practicum site for clinicals in the Nurse Practitioner program has proven quite challenging. Although a database of potential affiliates exists, it has become evident that many listed entities are no longer associated with Walden University or fail to respond to inquiries. Regrettably, the field office does not provide assistance with placement; rather, it focuses solely on preparing students for interviews for practicum placements and on offering strategies for reaching out to potential preceptors.

My formal complaint was filed with Student Affairs for several reasons. I was forcibly assigned a different chair by the director of the PhD Psychology program (Self-Designed). My topic was quantitative, and despite my warning that the assigned chair was qualitative, the director assigned it anyway, concluding that the winter term was a complete waste.

Wish there was an option for zero stars because that's all this "university" deserves. Unresponsive to instructor predatory grading where she is intentionally failing at least half of the class, their recourse is for me to "finish the course and submit a course audit request at the end". Of course that's their "solution" because they still all walk away with my money that I still have to repay and I'm out of my perfect GPA and left with learning absolutely zero from this class and its failure of an instructor. I will absolutely never advise anyone to go to Walden after this experience.

The field of Nursing office is absolutely HORRIBLE! There is no oversight of this department at all. They list the wrong forms on their webpages and when you submit these pages they decline your application. Then they tell you to fill out the right form and the old outdated wrong form is still listed! You seek help and they just do not care, they do not help you at all, they do not locate or help you locate preceptors and they make you jump through as many hoop as they want you to. It cost 2400 just for one practicum finding it on your own! The field office all they do is deny or accept your application everything else is up to you to figure out while they post information on over hundreds of pages. The field office creates so much more stress than a student needs, with no actual help at all and they are supposed to be nurses I am ashamed of them for the way they treat their students!

This school is a fraud and a joke! DO NOT ATTEND!! Not only was I repeatedly failed over a small scale assignment, they waited until the end of my semester to let me turn it in for the final time so that I wouldn't be able to finish the class and get credit for it. The tempo program is designed to fail you on the first submission of every assignment so you can "fix" what's wrong according to the professors. The whole grading scale is poorly explained, the advisors do not care and do not know what's going on with the program. I also was advised to take Statistics with Sophia, so I did and completed the certification of credit. After the fact, I was informed that I had to drop one of my transferable credits in order to add the Statistics class, and then the university added a new class onto my required courses. Making it an even longer timeline to graduate.

In my experience, I cannot recommend any of the Nurse Practitioner (NP) programs offered by this institution. The practicum placement process lacked meaningful support, and I was required to locate all placements on my own. The school’s website, which is supposed to provide practicum guidance, was disorganized during my enrollment. Information was scattered across multiple pages, and several links were nonfunctional when I attempted to use them.

I tried reaching out of deep concern and frustration and tried many times to get help understanding my financial aid situation, but I keep getting transferred and end up with no real answers. I feel lost in the process and completely unsupported. I recently received a call—on my birthday—saying I owe $7,000. I stopped working to focus on my education, believing I was doing the right thing, and now I feel blindsided. My bad, I wish I would have read the reviews before making the decision to enroll at Walden for online education. These questions remain, "How did this happen, and why was there no warning before it became this serious, and What did I do Wrong?”