Nashville State Community College

Very clean and professional campus. Personnel were extremely helpful and there is on-campus security. Would recommend highly.

I honestly wish it was possible to give business a zero rating. I would not recommend NSCC to anyone. Especially if you are an active working adult trying to finish up your degree. I started the admissions process with this school in January. I was told that I was going to have to do an appeal because the previous year I had to withdraw from classes do to a server car accident that required surgery. Long story short, the communication with the administration is like playing a game of ping pong. No one knows the policy and procedures each department referred me to other departments because no one knew anything. My advisor was not responsive, you never talk to anyone in the financial aid office that can make a decision unless you make a little noise. Expect to always talk to a customer service rep and never get a call back or returned emails. Mind you I started the admissions process in January, April 28, they informed me I would have to come up with the cost of my tuition not even a week before tuition was due. NO one took responsibility or accountability for the poor treatment I was given, their attitude is they can do what they want to mess up your future hopes and dreams and regardless of what they do wrong you will have to pay for it. I meat the Dean and even though she asked for me to email her and keep her in the loop of what is going on she never responded to emails or picked up the phone to call. I guess it all falls down from leadership. I only have four courses left before I can apply to a nursing program, and because of the way they mishandled me and how unclear there policies are I will have to pay for the classes out of pocket, and that's ok if that information was given to me clearly when I first started this process other then giving me false hopes of my classes being covered by TN Reconnect. IF I'm going to have to pay for classes out of pocket I will not give a dime to this school. Thankfully I found another school that has the program I need and the customer service at Volunteer State Community School is world class and worth the drive.

Nobody talks about their ESL classes, so I decided to leave my experience for other people who are seeking learning English somewhere at school. If you are thinking about as a non-degree student, PLEASE DON'T. It wastes of your time and money. The classmates had always low motivation. A teacher was eager to speak herself all the time in the class. Trust me.

This establishment is like any other, a money vacuum. They tell you that they are here to help you achieve your educational dreams, this is a lie. The establishment does not care about your education they just want to take your personal money and government money. They will make you run through burning loops of fire to graduate.

I've attended classes at Nashville State off and on for 10 years now, both as a full- and part-time student, and I've always gotten my money's worth. My classes have been, for the most part, in information technology, art and visual communication. With a few exceptions, I've found my instructors to be engaged in teaching, available to their students, and interested in seeing students succeed academically and professionally. Yes, over a period of 10 years I encountered a few who let me down. But the same was true of nearby Middle Tennessee State University, where I spent far more money earning a 4-year degree with fewer practical applications. I've seen a much better return on my investment of time and money from NSCC, where instructors are conscious of the need to also teach students how to earn a living, and I spent less than half what I did at MTSU. If I had it to do over again, I'd attend NSCC first before enrolling in any 4-year school.