Chamberlain University Miramar Student Defense Lawyer

Chamberlain University’s Miramar campus passed 72.48% of 109 first-time NCLEX candidates in 2025 — about five points below the statutory floor, on the larger of Chamberlain’s two Florida cohorts. A program in that position has one fast lever for raising its first-time rate: deciding who gets to sit the exam. That is the pressure behind many Miramar dismissals, and it is also the reason to check every one of them against the written rule.

The 2025 numbers, and the divergence that matters

Miramar passed 72.48% of 109 against the 77.59% baccalaureate floor, while Chamberlain’s Jacksonville campus passed 78.79% of 66 — above it. Both campuses run the same three-year BSN under the same national handbook and catalog, so the gap points at campus-level admission, progression and remediation practice rather than at the program’s design. That divergence is useful to a Miramar student: it undercuts any suggestion that the rules themselves compel removals, and it makes the campus a student attended the operative fact in any argument about the numbers.

Under Fla. Stat. section 464.019(5)(a)1 a Florida nursing program’s first-time NCLEX passage rate must stay within 10 percentage points of the national average for comparable programs — for 2025 that floor was 76.05% for associate-degree programs and 77.59% for baccalaureate programs. Section 464.019(5)(a)2 puts a program two consecutive years below it at risk of probation and loss of approval, and section 464.019(5)(c) then obliges a program on probation to disclose that status in writing to its students and applicants. A single year below the floor is not probation. Every Florida program and campus is tabulated on the Florida nursing program pass-rate page.

One year below the floor is not probation, and the Board publishes no probation roster — but a program working to get back over the line has an institutional reason to remove students it predicts will fail, and progression rules get read at their strictest in exactly that posture. The decision letter deserves to be laid beside the policy text, line by line.

The rules a Chamberlain case runs on

Chamberlain runs on two national documents — the college student handbook and the academic standards in the university catalog — with no Florida-specific code underneath. The label on the letter picks the track: the Professional Conduct Policy handles behavior as a conduct charge; the Academic Integrity Policy runs misconduct through an instructor review, with a Hearing Panel required where suspension, expulsion or reversal of a degree is contemplated; and failing the Standards of Academic Progress is an academic dismissal, which ends Title IV eligibility at the same time. The academic track carries the fewest protections: Beheshtitabar v. Florida State University, applying Board of Curators of the University of Missouri v. Horowitz, holds that an academic dismissal is not a disciplinary one and needs no hearing. The appeal window for conduct and integrity decisions is five business days from written notice, on three grounds — new evidence, procedural irregularity that affected the outcome, and a sanction not appropriate to the violation — the standard is more likely than not, and the published policies provide for no advisor. The full policy walk-through, document by document, is on the Chamberlain University Florida page.

Chamberlain is private, so Fla. Stat. section 1006.60(3) — the statute that gives students at Florida’s public colleges notice, a hearing and the right to be accompanied by counsel — does not reach it. What governs is the enrollment agreement, the catalog and the student handbooks, read as a contract, and Sharick v. Southeastern University of the Health Sciences is the Florida authority that a dismissal in breach of the institution’s own undertakings is actionable, with damages that can extend to lost future earning capacity rather than a refund of tuition.

Where a Miramar case is filed

Miramar is in Broward County, in the Southern District of Florida, Fort Lauderdale Division, under 28 U.S.C. section 89(c) — a different district from Chamberlain’s Jacksonville campus, which files in the Middle District.

What can a student defense lawyer do here?

• Pin down in writing which track the letter is on — conduct, academic integrity, or academic progress — because the label decides the decision-maker, the deadline and the protections.
• Assemble the catalog and handbook edition in force for the enrollment, and identify the specific promises about process.
• Test the progression, attendance and repeat arithmetic against the published text — counts are often run in ways the policy does not authorize.
• Press on the wording of the decision letter, which follows the student into every licensure and transfer application afterwards.
• Preserve every internal appeal on the shortest deadline any document states, while the larger analysis is developed.

What actually runs at the Miramar campus

Chamberlain’s Miramar campus is at 10315 USA Today Way, Miramar, Florida 33025, serving the Broward and north Miami-Dade corridor. It teaches the three-year pre-licensure Bachelor of Science in Nursing, measured against the baccalaureate floor. Chamberlain reports to the Board of Nursing separately by campus, so the campus’s own figure — not a blended Chamberlain number — is the one that describes a Miramar student’s program.

Other Broward-area and nursing programs

Every school writes its own dismissal, appeal and conduct rules, and the filing deadlines are rarely the same from one campus to the next. These pages set out the procedure at related Florida programs:

• Chamberlain University Florida
• Chamberlain University Jacksonville
• Galen College of Nursing Pembroke Pines
• Keiser University Pembroke Pines
• Broward College
• Jersey College

Common questions about Chamberlain Miramar cases

What was Chamberlain Miramar’s 2025 NCLEX pass rate?

The Miramar campus passed 72.48% of 109 first-time candidates against the 77.59% baccalaureate floor — about five points below, on the larger of Chamberlain’s two Florida cohorts.

The campus is below the benchmark — what does that mean for my case?

One year below the floor is not probation — the statute puts a program at risk after two consecutive years. What it does create is institutional pressure to raise the first-time rate, and the fastest lever a program has is removing students it predicts will fail. A student dismissed in that posture is entitled to the rule as written, not the rule as needed.

Is Chamberlain covered by Florida’s public-college discipline statute?

No. Fla. Stat. section 1006.60(3) reaches public colleges. Chamberlain is private, so the enrollment agreement, catalog and handbooks govern as a contract, and Sharick v. Southeastern University of the Health Sciences is the Florida authority on that footing.

How long do I have to appeal a Chamberlain decision?

Five business days from the date written notice of the decision was provided, in writing, for both conduct and academic-integrity decisions — on three grounds: new evidence, procedural irregularity that affected the outcome, or a sanction not appropriate to the violation. That decision is final.

Which court covers Chamberlain Miramar?

The Southern District of Florida, Fort Lauderdale Division — Miramar is in Broward County, under 28 U.S.C. section 89(c).