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Chamberlain University

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Chamberlain University reviews

3.7

63% would recommend to a friend

(566 total reviews)
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Amelia Manning

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63% positive business outlook

Chamberlain University has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 566 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Chamberlain University employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.7 stars).

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566 reviews
2.0
Jan 17, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Courses are interesting to teach, and the platform and design for the online curriculum best in class.

Cons

Faculty are treated horribly. "Culture of Care" only applies to doing whatever it takes to retain students so they can progress through the program. Chamberlain is FULLY a for-profit school. "Care" means getting as many students through the program as possible through academic leniency, and substandard rigor. The pay for faculty is horrific. The two week paycheck for someone with a PhD teaching a class of close to forty students is $600.00. We could make more working at Target. We never know how many classes we'll receive, so there is zero financial stability. There is no consistency in terms of courses offered, therefore, financially it's difficult to plan One term you may receive two courses, the next term none, regardless of how long you've been working there, or your course evaluations. If you reach out to ask for more classes you are chastised. Really? We are making around minimum wage with doctoral degrees. Does that really sound like a culture of care? Finally, the amount of work you're expected to do for the pay is unrealistic. Nonstop changes and communications, each geared towards doing more to improve student retention.

2.0
Aug 31, 2017

Nursing Faculty

Recommend
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Pros

The pay is competitive and the benefits are pretty standard. Benefits have been watered down each year for a number of years though and pay does not increase at the rate of inflation.

Cons

Faculty have little to no voice and the many, many, many layers of administration makes all the decisions. Unfortunately, many if not most of the administrators have little to no academic experience. Make no mistake that this is a for-profit business first and an educational institution second. All decisions center around keeping students in seats to pay more tuition even when the students aren't doing the work and aren't learning. They talk about Chamberlain Care but don't practice it at an institutional level, from the top down. There have been multiple rounds of eliminating jobs and departments with announcements going out the day before a scheduled break and effected faculty and staff were told that they would not have a job at the end of the one week break. Almost any institution would try to place these people into other positions but not at an institution that has Chamberlain Care. They told them they couldn't help them and if they wanted a severance package they would have to sign a statement that they would never work for the company again. HR is the Gestapo and extremely unfriendly to faculty. When positions are posted, administration frequently has already hired someone. There is little room for advancement if you aren't willing to drink the kool-aid and insure that making money is more important than educating students. In short, I would not recommend this institution to anyone because they are not what they appear on the surface and do not truly support students, faculty, or staff.

1.0
Aug 30, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Decent Pay Paid Holidays There are no other pros for this position.

Cons

Call Center Impossible Metrics Poor Management No Accountability Lack of training Overworked Colleagues

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