Sandy West Please stay away from this institution. They are the most unprofessional and horrendous education establishment I have interacted with in my 25 years working with various colleges and schools in USA. I totally agree with reviews provided by Bob and Mirell regarding the way this colleges administration handles the students, their studies, and play with students future. The have no compassion, no structure, no respect, its borderline harassments of students at the hands of the management and administration that operates this institution. I am going to share some points below:
a) This batch was asked to sit for Capstone final at the ICHS campus rather than take remotely as proctored, which was not how they had administered for all the past batches. Me and my other colleagues thought this seems like good idea, we hoped that the college administration had a plan in place if any of the students couldnt pass that those students would perhaps be asked to remediate or retake exam again so help students that are on fringe for them to be able to pass, but no, it was another game or plan by the administration to harass students by having them travel all the way with no plan in place or compassion to help students that were 1% to 10% below passing, which for a 120+ question exam would be no more than 4 - 5 questions..
On of my family friend went to local SoCal Nursing school, that school was very transparent ahead of time, if a student failed within 5 percentage points, they would have those students take 8 hour remediation sessions on the topics that they scored lowest and thereafter would give them credits to pass, for any student with more than 5 percent and under 10 percent they would offer them to take a retest within 2 weeks by paying a small test retake fee. Why not ICHS had something like this planned, why were they not transparent ahead of time with students and communicated clearly that although we are asking you to come to Florida campus for test, if you dont pass there is no retake or remediation and you will not be allowed to take Exit exam. Why students were kept in dark? I guess they are smart enough or really dont care for students time, emotions or money wastage.
b) Why is that after every semester finals they dont confirm final score right away, they always say give us couple days to finalize scores of the test and that we are checking in the backend to make sure that questions were not faulty... are the students guinea pigs for this administrations stupid games.. if they are not 100% sure themselves on their exam questions structure, content, or complexity why have the students go through a test that even thy dont have confidence in? There are obvious patterns here that either they are very incompetent. Very fishy and unprofessional, how can anyone trust them?
c) Two of my batchmates have 8 to 12 years of LVN practice experience, I was in disbelief to know that even they couldnt pass. It seems for this batch again almost half or more of the students couldnt pass. We are also consulting a local law firm in California, and they have partner law firm in Florida, we shared our experience and initial contract we signed with ICHS, upon quick review the attorney said that its obvious that ICHS is in breach of their own contract. They have advised as first step to submit complaint to Florida Commission of Independent Education as next steps and possible lawsuit thereafter.
Now ICHS will offer all failed students to enroll in next semester, waste their time and hard money again with no guidance or structure. Why not offer failed students to retake the exam, if you as institution are confident in your education that you provide why is this is not an option offered.. They will not because they just need to make their $2,500 per each student again, and this is their only agenda. They are a greedy business where I am sure everyone makes commissions on how much fees based revenue they can bring in by failing students.
Sorry for long review, but this greedy and shoddy intuition deserves it.
1 /5
Baani Sangha I had an extremely disappointing experience with the International College of Health Sciences (ICHS) in Florida. The institution is plagued by disorganization and a lack of professionalism. Instructors often read directly from slides without providing meaningful explanations, and when questioned, they offer vague responses. There is a high turnover of instructors, leading to inconsistency in teaching quality. The administration frequently changes policies without adequate notice, creating confusion among students. Exam results are withheld, preventing students from assessing their performance and progress. The institution appears to prioritize financial gain over student success, with reports of students being charged exorbitant fees to retake classes after arbitrary failures. Many students, including myself, have filed complaints with the Florida Board of Nursing due to these unethical practices. I strongly advise prospective students to seek educational opportunities elsewhere to avoid the stress and financial burden associated with ICHS. 
1 /5
Mindy Taylor ICHS administration intentionally screwed up students for this Capstone in the latest batch that took final exam on Jan 13th. See attached pictures for reference. they switched the weightage of the Final exam(Exam 2) to 75 percent and reduced weightage of Exam 1 to 20 percent plus no home work credit and only 5 percent for completing the modules. These weightages were vastly different than what ICHS had for all previous capstone classes as well other classes. Making the final exam at 75 percent weightage setup most students for this latest batch to not pass this class.. even if you complete all modules and get more that 90 percent score on your Exam 1 and for Exam 2 student still had to score very good to pass with overall 75 percent score. In addition to Exam 2 being so high weightage they also made Exam 2 very very hard , it was not purely ATI and was mix of HESI and ATI which was contrary to what teachers were telling everyone to practice on ATI based dynamic questions during the class semester.
Why was this batch setup with this weightage what was the justification or reasoning behind it, it seems that all other classes were initially changed to this new weightage but later switched back before finals..why was this not done for the Capstone class. Had the weightage been kept same as previous batches most of the students would have passed rather than more than half the class failing. Who in ICHS is responsible for this gross blunder and how is ICHS administration going to resolve this mismanagement. They should take responsibility for this blunder and do something rather than forcing all these students to retake the whole semester again and pay ridiculous fees and waste another 3 months. The Capstone program director Gabriela Zakak should be ashamed of herself and resign of this gross incompetence. Maybe she doesn’t have any remorse and is the kind that enjoys other people’s suffering. Shame on her everyone in that administration.
Warning to all incoming students and students that just enrolled in ICHS don’t waste your money and time with ICHS, go enroll in other schools in Florida who offer similar courses and have better reputation and competent management.
1 /5
