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-professors do not care about students and are rude
-complains about certain classes to other classes/students/ and faculty constantly
-rotation options are good with great preceptors
-TON of debt
-did not provide our transcripts to NABP and now all testing sites are full so having to travel 8 hours away to test before residency
-threaten professional violations over everything
-make you scan in and out of class to track attendance and act like it鈥檚 elementary schoolers
-make demeaning comments that... Read More are very unprofessional
-we had to be in person for certain professors who were on zoom
-when asking about a test question clarification was blamed for point fishing
-about half the faculty has quit within the last year
-had to write an essay if missed too many days of class talking about how this appears to classmates
-not very clean
-cannot bring things up to leadership without being put on the 鈥渂ad list鈥�
-new pharmacy building is nice

I originally applied due to the block course formatting, networking and due as expressed numerous times during the interview was their use of technology for learning. Two out of the three was a lie. They had just gotten rid of the block schedule. In addition, during COVID they mandated students to go to class and deemed the recordings were not needed, only audio will be provided for later access. The classes have also been informed audio may be removed next semester. This is an over priced school... Read More that lies and does not provide technological learning methodologies due to they are not needed. The majority of students used the videos as supplemental study materials but apparently that is not needed. Undergraduate schools offer this buy not an over priced PharmD program.

Mercer is all about money. As a Russian educated person with multiple degrees; the curriculum was a joke. A snide comments, gossips or yelling at students was a common unprofessional practice at Mercer. I recommend State School such as UGA as it is cheaper & the school concentrates on making pharmacists to be patient, 100% error free & supportive to patients. Mercer advertises as welcoming diversity for one reason only. The foreign students don鈥檛 know what they are getting themselves into: huge debts.... Read More A profession of pharmacist is a 12 hour work day mainly as clerks customers rush & yell at & the corporates using pharmacists licenses to make money selling drugs, without providing enough technicians if at all. Pharmacists have no choices and usually become depressed & commit suicides. While I was there a lot of students ( Asians mostly) committed suicide not making it as well as the culture demands. The corporate retail pharmacy cut techs hours & I know few pharmacists losing their licenses, ended up in jail, lost homes etc. Faculty is not helpful & recently power was given to female deans that went over their heads. There is favoritism & competition. I was an older female students & I felt competition from the red headed, temperamental & downright abusive law professor to students. The disabled students are treated poorly & the school has been notoriously reported to the Department of Education. If you become a puppet & obey hideous rules, take antidepressants & you can make it. It鈥檚 very expensive for the educational value advertised. It鈥檚 not there. The only memorable person who supported & believed in student was Dr. James Bartling who recently passed away. I like the pharmaceutical calculations soft spoken professor. She took time speaking with me in the office. I looked up to her wisdom. She was real. If you desired to chose this profession I would choose hospital or specialty pharmacy. It鈥檚 less stressful, clinical & not as boring. You don鈥檛 get yelled at by customers. You deal with patients in beds. Hospitals hire enough staff to cover all the floors, train techs well to help us & hire more techs. I love compounding & got a position at a small private cancer institute & I love smaller town without city trafic & true southern hospitality away from the city. So, yes, I was short 2 classes to get in to UGA & made Atlanta my home. At the end happiness is not what your achievements are, but who you become as a person. It鈥檚 a people loving profession. Don鈥檛 do it for money. I do love the mountains & Atlanta reminds me of Russian mountains.

This school has not prepared me for the pharmacy field in the slightest. The program is formatted horribly and the faculty are scrambling to fix it as students NAPLEX and MPJE scores continue to drop. This is a poor excuse for a college and an absolute waste of money. I am 100certain I would have taught myself all of the worthwhile information that Mercer provided if I just had read disease state guidelines and the recent Dipiro textbook. They teach you nothing more of value. Think your $15,000 a... Read More semester is being put to valuable use? Think again. Your time will be wasted on courses such as "management" and "leadership" which provide nothing of use to you as a student and instead, sacrifices crucial time for learning drug information that you actually need to know out in the field. Think you will be seated in classrooms conducive to learning, filled with teachers willing to lend a helping hand? Think again! You'll be lucky if some of the main faculty running the program don't come to your classes and scream at you like you're children and not adults worthy of respect. Yes, actual screaming by various professors, many times throughout the years. Sometimes you'll even have 30 to 45 minute lectures about how awful you are! Also, some of the teachers have clear favorites and if you are not one of those "chosen" few, good luck. My experience at Mercer has been a depressing one and I would not wish this experience upon anyone, not even my worst enemy. Mercer's main concern is not to teach you as you think a college would. It's main purpose is to earn money and keep its reputation. That's all that matters, and you'll experience that if you're a student here. Don't be fooled by what they say at their orientation or in their promotional videos. If there's one thing Mercer does right, it's advertise, just like any other money making business. I understand this review is putting the school on blast, but it's important for your mental health to know this. It's important for you, the possible student reading this. Think carefully. And if you decide to go here, plan on using antidepressants in a few years. At least you'll know all about them by the time you start taking them!

Graduate school is an expensive investment no matter where one chooses to go. I believe the quality of the education I received from Mercer is superior to many other Pharmacy schools, especially those in the area. The professional network I have created is one that I am sure will help me tremendously upon graduation. Of course, no school is perfect, and there have been hiccups along the way, however, I am very glad that I chose this school as the place I invest my time, money, and my future into.... Read More