Cabarrus College of Health Sciences

Celeste Zamor Google

Apr 09, 2026

I have a 3.4 college gpa and have completed all my pre requisites to any ADN program that I would potentially enter. This school wants 30 year old ACT/ SAT scores from high school, because I do not have an associate or bachelor degree. I didn’t even take those test too seriously because I had a good GPA in high school. Since when do ACT/ SAT scores count once you have entered college already and have a good college GPA. Also, I am LPN already. UPDATE!!!: I got accepted to Gaston College LPN to RN bridge program. Much more affordable.

Maddison Google

Mar 21, 2026

I've attended Cabarrus College both for OTA school and now MOT school, and while I had a tough time eight years ago in OTA school, I've loved the MOT program. After reading some negative reviews, my thoughts are a) the plaza building is great on the weekends, no issue with parking for the MOT program, b) it seems people do not understand what grad school is, c) yes tuition is high, but you can work full-time while in grad school and not drown in debt like many of the other programs to which I considered applying. The teachers do not hold your hand during this program, which I loved. If you put in the work and do the assignments and the readings and research, you will actually learn something. If you use ChatGPT for everything, you will not. Many of my classmates described the coursework as "busy work," but I never felt that way. I learned a ton; it was just self-guided learning, so if that's not your thing, you should apply to an in-person program instead. Even one teacher I didn't particularly get along with was still helpful and knowledgable, as are all the rest that I DID get along with. I appreciated that they all treated me like I'm an adult and a professional and pushed me to not just be prepared to be an OTR but also to be a better COTA in the meantime. They are all tough but fair graders and provide valuable feedback, especially if you ask for it. The coursework is grueling, but I'm a single-income adult and I was fine working 40 hours per week and getting assignments done on time. It just means doing work almost every single day of your life, but again, I don't know why you'd expect anything else from a graduate-level program. I had to sacrifice some free time and abandon my gym membership, but it's temporary and, for me, worth it to move forward in my career and get a high-quality education. The in-person weekends are also tough, a bit of a marathon, but I think we got a fair amount of hands-on learning, simulated patient interactions, and actual patient interactions to practice assessments and evaluations. Some classes are more didactic than others, especially during the first year, but with that you also get a lot of really great guest speakers in many of the classes. I'm in level 2 fieldwork now, and my site gets a lot of MOT students. The clinical instructors there have told me that the students they get from Cabarrus College are more prepared, more professional, and better at patient interaction than many other schools from which they get students. For me, the very hard work I put in over a year and a half of coursework prepared me to have a much easier, smoother time during level 2 fieldwork.

Lina Vasquez Rosen Google

Mar 11, 2026

I was warned about the MOT program and I still did it What I wish I knew before starting… - The design is beautiful as it is exclusively for COTAs with experience, yet the whole point seems to be missed that students seek to learn from more knowledgeable people, not teach ourselves from Amazon textbooks and free peer reviewed journal articles online - Expect 16-20h of class time monthly/every 3wks (about 5 weekends per sem), and x10 1hr nightly synchronous lecture zoom classes per sem (varies). - You will be completing up to 13 assignments on the weekends in class for which are due that Saturday/Sunday night (some unrelated to weekend class activities, just conveniently due on class days) for which occasionally students are not provided with adequate time to complete and subsequently graded harshly when provided with insufficient resources and time for fair completion- when discussed with faculty, students are quickly dismissed saying they need to learn for “realistic workplace standards” Opinion- Faculty appear to overlook that students have just completed a 40h workweek + 16-20h of weekend class + a 1-6h drive or even a flight home just in time to finish the 12 day crawl with no days off; yet attempt to feed such a standard as remotely beneficial for retaining any input of information long-term. - Expect to teach yourself up to 15 chapters of textbook material per class, per module, from books you could have simply bought on Amazon while unburdened by copious tuition rates and stress - The unpaid Level 2 FW is technically 7mo…not 6mo. Cabarrus adds a month between rotations for students to work on their capstone project… The not so factual stuff: - Often disregarded is the knowledge we do have as experienced COTAs and therefore the knowledge we crave and paid 44k+ to get…we are so dissatisfied BECAUSE we are so HUNGRY to be taught something of substance so we can GROW.- not be drowned in complex, challenging and yet non-beneficial assignments. - No matter how much students advocate (in midterm advising, course evaluations, meetings with teachers, verbalizing concerns during class), nothing appears to change- confirmed equal concerns up to 4 years prior to this with no significant change…yet Key takeaways- Personally, I would have rather driven 4h further AND pay more if it meant I would graduate as a better OTP than I was before since surrendering every ounce of brainpower to this program for 2+years.

Aaron Ewing Google

Dec 15, 2025

Very capable and hard working students AND staff. Extremely happy with our child's/familys experience. Literally can't say enough good things about CCHI!