International College of Health Sciences - Boynton Beach, Florida

Mirell Lozano

Horrible school. I wish I could give them negative zeros! All they care about is money! I wish I would’ve listened to the negative reviews because they are 100% true. They try to take credit for the students hard work because they don’t teach you a THING! All the professors do is read of a partial power point and the rest of the 1-2 hours of class is doing stupid questions, you literally self teach and they try to make it seem that they’re “passing rates” is all them lmaO! No study guides, no guidance at all with what to focus or study for your exams. For capstone, the worst semester of all! It’s supposed to be the easiest as it’s supposed to be a review of everything instead you’ll find your self lost . But no they had us do weekly quizzes that impacted our grades horribly, they switched us from HESI from ATI DAYS prior to our first weekly exam which HESI had been used for the entire year, which were extremely stressful and if you don’t pass them with a 75% or higher you had a 25 question remediation that did nothing to your grade. The instructors also admitted to making their own questions up for the exams and weekly quizzes and also pulling questions from Saunders, HESI & ATI platforms which made no damn sense! Which made it harder to keep up. So pretty much you’re busy studying all week long for these stupid weekly’s that would leave hardly any room to study for your first exam. After we took the exam more than half of the class failed it and we found out that we had hundreds of practice quizzes that were locked on ATI that the instructors could’ve informed us about and did not have available to us until after the first exam which was already half ways through the semester and our grades were already deeply impacted. After all of that mess we take the final and and barely the us any points after throwing out some questions may of us still didn’t pass theory capstone. The students that passed and moved forward to go the graded skills portion were failed by the rude and unprofessional clinical instructors so they had to either come back the next day or just be failed and not able to take the exit after traveling there. The students that passed were able to take the exit and only approximately 10 out of over 100 students passed so then the school started passing points like crazy to meet their metrics & cover themselves. A lot of us created a petition which had almost 1000 signatures requesting they adjust our grades to pass theory to which of course they ignored because they simply don’t care. They’ll dismiss you if you fail 2 or more classes, even if you I appeal with valid reasons, they will deny you due to previous class failings or previous (1-2) dismissals but other students with the same circumstances were able to be reinstated? They do not care if your father, mother or any family dies, or have health issues, or have any other challenging circumstances they show no empathy whatsoever and Dr. Ober will have a meeting with you, have you redo your appeal and some bogus assignment and give you false hope only to go M.I.A. and completely ignore you after approving you to be able to restart your capstone semester and then of course ignore you. For having such “Degrees” they are completely lacking common sense and empathy. I almost forgot, they also don’t round up your grades on the last bogus semester of capstone as they do in every previous semester which I’m assuming is to get more $ out of us if we don’t pass. Also the capstone instructors were horrible and disrespectful and you don’t even feel comfortable asking questions smh. Zakak will literally shut you up and dismiss you in lecture and in emails. If you decide to go here be prepared to even damn near quit your job or prepare to have your doctor take you off of work if possible the entire year if you even make it. Clinicals are even worse… there were some amazing instructors but the others along with the dean of clinicals “Dr. Palmer” are completely rude, unprofessional and will abuse their authority.

Lisa Acevedo

I graduated from International College of Health Sciences. I’ve never failed a class. I passed my exit exam, and I passed the NCLEX on the first try. I feel as though you do need to be committed and you need to take the program seriously, but by no means, is this a horrible program. This is a wonderful opportunity. If you live in California, you’re not going to find a more affordable program. My license was endorsed. I took my NCLEX on September 19, 2023 and California endorsed my RN license November 3, 2023. I would definitely recommend this program, but you do have to do the homework, and you do have to study, and you do have to pass the exams just like in any other program.

Kaur Dhaliwal

I strongly advise against enrolling at this institution. My experience and those of many others have been deeply troubling. The school promotes impressive pass rates, but the reality is that many students struggle to pass the exit exam, which is a graduation requirement for taking the licensing exams.They try to defend themselves by sharing their nclex pass rates however their graduation and completion rates are in the trenches. You can look those up on their website.

Students are required to sign a syllabus that grants the school broad discretion in administering exams, including custom formats that have proven detrimental. In the last cohort, nearly 80% of students failed the exit exam. The administration attempted to mitigate this by awarding a small percentage of points back to students, resulting in some passing by mere luck. Despite these efforts, over 60% of the capstone class still did not pass and cannot take the licensing exams until they do.

Additionally, I have personally witnessed a lack of support from the administration, including the president, owner, and dean. Many students have expressed feeling ignored and dismissed when they seek help or guidance.

Please proceed with caution and consider alternative options for your education.

Jennie Kim

If I can give this school zero star, I would! They don’t even deserve 1 star.

Dr. Ober’s two faced personality would tell people he wants to help the students but will never respond to our emails and blames only the students for low pass rates and refuses to look inward on his own policies and designs. Not only has his impulsive decisions to change program material from HESI to ATI without proper research to education given versus education required to pass exams not only damages students but the schools reputation, trust from the community and pass rates.

It seems like their main goal is to fail pretty much 80% their students in order to enforce repeat tuition. Just stay away from their school. When I was in Florida for my clinicals, the people from Boynton Beach would always ask me which school I’m from, and when they found out I’m from ICHS, they were so sorry and felt bad that I went to this school. They all know how bad this school is. They are not for helping students become successful but for their own profit only and they are very unprofessional.

Please save yourself, your money and your time from this school.

Japnaaz Kaur

TRAP BY SCAMMERS ?This school is run by Ignorant and attitude people, they don't know how to run the grading system and what is the remediation for, what they will give you nonsense reasons for everything you gonna ask. They will try to stop you at the end of the exit by saying “Oh we changed the syllabus because we caught a lot of people cheated on last exams “ which is ridiculous, why don't catch those people Instead of making a Nurse practitioner style questions for ASN exams, They just lie on every other little thing, They going to treat you at clinical like you don't know anything by asking you the same topic every day which they are going to use on 1000 students, twice a day am and pm, so of coarse teacher should be perfect on it. SAVE YOURSELF, try to go to a better school, Don't worry about time with other schools, because if you are coming to this school they are going to waste your time and money. They try to fail the students by scam tactics.

Bell A.

PLEASE DON’T ENROLL HERE!

My husband and I disregarded all the negative reviews about this school before. But now my husband actually experienced how disorganized, unprofessional, and unsupportive the people that runs this school is. I would never ever recommend this school to anybody.

You will waste a lot of money and your time here! The staff are very rude and very unprofessional. They will scream at you and treat you poorly. The money and stress that my husband had to go through was so unbearable to see. It breaks my heart to see how my husband would spend all his time studying, all the sleepless nights all the stress he’s been through just to pass all the exams. But after all, they failed him. They failed most of his classmates too! I know nursing is not easy but my husband has 12 years healthcare experience. He knows a lot about nursing and he’s a smart guy. Even if he would take the NCLEX right now, he would pass it no problem. The problem is how poorly they prepared their students for the exit exam and change everything last minute. No matter how smart you are, no matter how much you study, if the school decides to test you on stuff that was not lectured to you, of course you will fail! How can you expect your students to pass the tests if the questions were very different from what they were taught! It’s like sending your soldiers in a war with no weapons. They were too focused on those people that were cheating that the good students who are actually studying are the ones suffering instead. And to cover up their mistakes, they decided to give random points to random people so they can pass the exit exam. And 30 minutes after the exit exam, you couldn’t find any staff in the school because all of them left the school immediately. It was so sketchy that they all went home early on Thursday after the exit exam and the next day which was Friday, they were still not there. The students were told that they will come back next week. But by that time, all the student had already flew back to which states they’re from. Imagine you flew all the way to Florida for your exit exam, spent so much money for your accommodations, flight, and other stuff, and you were treated poorly during the exit exam with metal detectors like they you’re a prisoner, and you were already so stressed from all the pressure to pass the exit exam. And when you try to talk to the staff after the exam, they were already gone. You’re lucky if you’re one of those very few people who passed.

Please take the negative reviews seriously! This school only cares about money. They are not there to help the students. This school would
ruin so many people dream of becoming a nurse. It’s very sad how what these students had to go through when all they want to do is to become a nurse.

I WOULD NEVER RECOMMEND THIS SCHOOL TO ANYONE!

Auxesia S

Such a nightmare of the school. please treat this review as warning to potential students who plan to enroll here and perform your due diligence before you enroll. The management is money hungry; they don't care about f you are travelling from out of state for your classes or Capstone prep or your mental health or your well-being. They don't care about providing you good education or mentoring so that you can pass your NCLEX, they just want to act like authoritarians and have their own agenda about measly things. They change test formats every month just for the heck of it. You complete your tests they don't show your results right away although tests are proctored, in some cases your test scores are not shown to you for multiple days with the excuse of 'Oh we are reviewing on the backend to double check' and boom suddenly you didn't pass. This doesn't happen to one student; it happens to many students in each class. It seems like they are intentionally holding students back from each semester so that they can milk you for extra tuition. No transparency. If your computer or internet goes out during the test, 'Sorry' you can't take exam again, you have failed the class. Every institution out there in USA or Canada be a private or government when someone takes proctored test for you, your results are shown within a day if not instantly. But not at ICHS, they have very high standards that I believe even John Hopkins and Standford might not be able to match. They know that students are at their mercy because they have already paid thousands in tuition, so ICHS management don't care. But their focus is to make sure that your shoelaces are white for your clinicals if for some reason you don't have the pure white shoes, you are sent back as you have committed a crime and now you need to schedule another day yourself. No focus on teaching you the hands-on care or patient assessment during your clinical, it's all about follow what we say, or you will be punished, they can change your clinicals with couple hours' notice, but God forbid you can't attend clinicals without white shoes. For capstone, tests upon tests every week and then another two finals. For one semester its HESI and suddenly we are switching to ATIs; screw you students. The focus during last few weeks of capstone should be to make sure students are being prepared for NCLEX, but No, we have an exit exam now that you have to pass to graduate. For NCLEX prep you are on your own. They make the life of students so miserable that many have quit because people are unable to pass a class due to so called high testing standards but no transparency around how tests are scored and frequent swapping of test types in many cases the test questions are not even from the chapters that have been taught. I wish this school is audited for all the unethical and fishy stuff they do behind the scenes to hold back students, but I don't want some my batchmates to suffer to not able to complete their course as they have spent thousands in the tuition fee, travel costs and lodging to attend this school. I hope someone in school board or management see this review and look inwards to change the culture of this school and teach students for what they enroll for and travel from far away states.

Michelle Rivera

Clinicals are a joke with no exposure to other healthcare settings or even hospitals except for nursing homes and over there, all you do is unpaid CNA work (feeding, making beds, answer call lights) with the addition of maybe taking vital signs and blood sugars for the charge nurse.

Grading criteria has recently changed without notice or discussion by the faculty; 3rd semester students are facing a grading criteria in which Med-Surg 2 is 70% toward the final and 20% to the midterm, that's 90% of your grade being counted toward exams that are cumulative.

There's a lot more to it, but do not consider or enroll in this program.