Pensacola Christian College

I wasted a year before figuring that the only place I would be able to get a job with a PCC education degree was at PCC or the grade school next door (run by the same gangsters). The school does NOT offer parity with the requirements for public school certification. They NEVER TOLD ME! Ever tried to do research in a place that bans internet use? Well that's how it works at PCC! That is just one of the crazier rules. I got out and only wasted a few thousand dollars and one year.

1st Year Female -- Class 2016

Perceived Campus Safety: A+, Education Quality: F

This nursing program is very outdated. Many of the school projects are just busy work and the school tends to favor paper projects as opposed to computer projects. The faculty is mostly recent grads and several very old professors and not many of them have any actual bedside nursing experience. The clinicals are very awkward with an instructor literally standing over you whenever you provide any patient care such as passing meds and starting IVs. The faculty micromanages the entire clinical time and when I graduated in 2015 we were still doing handwritten assessment notes on our patients. A huge emphasis is put on "critical errors" which you can earn from clinicals for things that the faculty deemed horrible mistakes that you made. These errors ranged from not foaming in and out to giving meds more than 30 minutes late to writing your clinical note after 10am. If you recieve more than 5 or 6 critical errors in a semester then you failed the class even if you were getting an A in the actual class. Finally the culture of PCC is grossly opposed to learning. For example, multiple times the instructors would tell us that this college is better than the other colleges in Pensacola because "we are a Christian college." Most of the emphasis was placed on how we looked to everyone else rather than updating our academics or nursing labs. Instead of providing educational experiences in the hospital we were given multiple clinical days in the nursing lab where we learned and practiced inserting NG tubes on old diparwipe boxes decorated to look like a face. During one of the finals senior year the teacher Mrs. Yoder wrote up half the class for skirts shorter than the knee but never had the integrity to say anything to us directly. My experience at PCC is that of subpar education, poor clinical experiences, and very poor preparation for the NCLEX and real nursing.

4th Year Female -- Class 2015

Campus Aesthetics: C+, Education Quality: F

I am currently a student. i have transferred from a different college, and am quite used to college life. PCC, although having excellent academics, must realize that there is more to the college life than the work. it is about growing, finding your own thoughts, and being able to grow your relationships with other people, in and out of the classroom. PLEASE NOTE: no student is allowed to go home for thanksgiving, and there is NO, i repeat NO, spring break. yeah, that threw me for a loop too!!! it's like they expect us not to have a social life outside of campus. also, something hard to find, pcc is not accredited. depending on your vocation, it may be difficult to find a job. this institution does need a great deal of work, although it does have a good foundation. Overall, they need to lighten up on the rules, continue in ther excellent education, and become accredited. we are not allowed to have our own convictgions about anything, but are rather forced to accept pcc's, or at least pretend to.

1st Year Female -- Class 2013

Education Quality: A+, Individual Value: F