Northern Arizona University

I am a 2021 Psych grad and had the very best experience I could have hoped for. The professors were amazing, and my academic counselor was exceptional. I am now 11 weeks away from graduating from an MSN program in another state, and I can see the difference between the universities. NAU prepared me for graduate school, and I hope to have the opportunity to teach one of their nursing classes.

Beautiful campus, but we were there for Bands Of America and did not seem like there was one worker around except for concession. Facilities ended up getting over run, running out of toilet paper and paper towels in the restrooms and cleanliness was not kept up in restrooms or around concessions. Trash cans had piles next to them with trash over flowing. It was a great even aside from this.

Very beautiful campus! The landscaping is beautiful. The mountain view, breathtaking. There is so much variety in food choices on campus as well as numerous places to walk or bike to off campus.

Gorgeous campus. Parking is a little challenging. Bring comfortable walking shoes. You walk everywhere and there's no flat ground.

First time at NU in over 30 years. Flagstaff is gorgeous in a used campus is beautiful. Instead of building a university in planting trees to beautify that looks like they just trying to find some space for buildings in the middle of the woods. If I can afford to live here, I’d be looking at real estate

WARNING TO ALL PROSPECTIVE NURSING STUDENTS: BEWARE OF NAU’S COLLEGE OF NURSING After two years of grueling preparation—acing every prerequisite, maintaining a 4.0 GPA, scoring a 96% on the HESI A2, and working closely with advisors every semester—I was officially admitted into Northern Arizona University’s Traditional BSN program for Fall 2025. I signed my acceptance contract on April 28, 2025, after years of sacrifice, hard work, and careful life planning as a working adult. Then came May 22, 2025. In a hastily arranged Zoom meeting, Suzanne McWilliams, Director of NAU’s College of Nursing, delivered a stunning betrayal. Without warning, she announced sweeping changes to the very program I was admitted into—changes that completely altered the structure, rigor, and requirements of the degree I had committed to. The Traditional BSN has been scrapped for our cohort. Instead, we are now being forced into an Accelerated BSN format—one that compresses semesters, demands additional online coursework, and even adds an entirely new prerequisite… all after our admissions were finalized and contracts were signed. Let me be clear: This is a classic bait-and-switch. These changes were not disclosed during admissions. There was no transparency, no consideration for students who have planned their careers, finances, and lives around the program as it was presented. When I asked McWilliams why we weren’t informed earlier, her response? That the website had been updated in the last few weeks—implying we should’ve discovered this life-altering information on our own by constantly refreshing a webpage. This isn’t just poor communication. It’s academic negligence. It’s institutional betrayal. And it’s an insult to every student who trusted NAU with their future. NAU’s College of Nursing has proven itself untrustworthy, unorganized, and indifferent to the lives it disrupts. It prioritizes administrative convenience and cost-cutting over student wellbeing. President José Luis Cruz Rivera collects his rising million-dollar salary while students are left to suffer under a crumbling, unstable program. To anyone considering NAU for nursing: Run the other way. There are better programs—programs that respect their students, honor their commitments, and don’t rewrite your future with a single Zoom call. Shame on Suzanne McWilliams. Shame on NAU. We deserve better.

Terrible school definitely a mess when it comes to admissions don’t even try to apply here if you have funding from a veteran source. They are definitely a printing mill for liberal educators. Hopefully they get some of their funding pulled so they can stop producing inadequate and mindless graduates.

No help trying to get enrolled, very little communication. Everyone is always on vacation, not available, doesn’t return calls. Got accepted and attempted to use GI Bill and hasn’t gone anywhere. Thanks for wasting my time.

Great campus, great town, the friendliest people. Loved the layout of the campus and fresh air. Everyone was so helpful and the study programs were hard to beat. Alot going on at the campus. Great school experience.

Campus was a mess, they need to hire new landscapers or something. Maybe put a lot of that money that they're making into the campus not into the pockets of CEOs