Withdrawal Policies 

Students deciding to withdraw from the College should receive official authorization from their advisor or program director. Students who withdraw from the program and later desire to return are required to apply for re-admission and must meet the admission requirements at the time of re-application. Re-admission is not guaranteed.

Students who wish to withdraw should:

1. Consult with their advisor and Program Director before initiating the withdrawal process.
2. Meet with the Program Director to discuss the reasons for withdrawal, sign the withdrawal forms, and determine the following: Nonacademic or academic status of withdrawals and transcript grades assigned per grading policy.
3. Meet with the Administrative Coordinator, Financial Aid for explanation of the refund policy. Following withdrawal from the College, all remaining grants and loans must be returned, and financial aid will be terminated. Financial aid cannot be transferred to a different College. All outstanding bills are paid through the Financial Aid Office.
4. Meet with Student Services to return name badge and any other College property.
5. Meet with the Administrative Coordinator, Student Services.
6. Return all materials to the Estes Library.
7. For academic and financial purposes, the effective date of official and unofficial withdrawals is the last day of clinical and/or class attendance.

Students producing sufficient evidence to verify extreme emergencies may qualify to receive full tuition credits for courses or receive tuition reimbursement per policies.

Students with a call to active duty by the military must produce military documentation at the time of withdrawal.

Full tuition credits may be applied toward tuition costs only upon their return to that course within one (1) year. Tuition credits are not refundable at a date later than one year. Students who choose to leave the program for non-academic reasons must follow the Tuition Refund policy. Transcript grades for withdrawn courses are assigned per policies in the grading section.

Students withdrawing from the College who do not meet the non-academic withdrawal requirements are considered academic withdrawals. Transcript grades for withdrawn courses are assigned per policies in the Grading section. The Registrar withdraws students from the College who:

• Are failing either theory or clinical at the end of a completed course.
• Are ineligible to progress within the curriculum due to academic failure and dismissal.
• Have failed to attend any classes and clinical experiences during the first two weeks of the semester without a communicated cause.
• Have missed more than the allotted excused absences from clinical days in a semester.
• Have dropped courses prior to attending any classes with communicated causes.
• Have requested an official withdrawal from the College.

The purpose of the exit interview is to obtain insights and specifics on how to better conduct and improve the education of our students. Student exit interviews will be distributed through SurveyMonkey to students who are withdrawing from the College and/or who have failed a nursing course. Participation is anonymous and voluntary.