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Anonymous (In Progress) on April 4, 2012 (email verified)

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Choose Another School This school is a nightmare. Beginning with fact that I have a master's degree and I could have taught 90% of my classes better than the Ph.D. instructors did. I have been attempting to finish my dissertation for 2 years now and I have gotten nothing but roadblock after roadblock. If considering this program, you should also know that you cannot miss a week of class without being completely dropped from your program. Ridiculous especially considering the cost of tuition is $1350 per unit. The administration is completely apathetic, incompetent, and truly don't care about the students enrolled in this university. The financial aid department has made mistake after mistake, they have actually told me that I qualify for subisdized loans, processed the loan, applied to my account and then told me "oops we made an error, please return all the money to the school immediately". That is not a joke, it literally happened to me twice. Further, the professors are ill equipped for teaching and lack dedication. So much so that I have actually been in courses in which instructors don't check in for 3-4 weeks and we were assigned new professors. This also is not a joke and happened twice. Requirements for degree completion include passing a comprehensive exam that you are not prepared for in advance to move on to doctoral candidacy. Once a doctoral candidate you start writing your dissertation and you are pretty much on your own. The only time you will hear from your chair is when they tell you that you have to change your work. On top of that there are 8 dissertation units that are 7.5 weeks long and specific dissertation goals have to be met during each session. If you don't meet the goals, no matter what the reason is, or if it is your fault or not you will receive a no credit (NC). After two NCs you are dropped from the program altogether, again no matter if it is yorur fault or not if you didn't meet goals. In addition, no matter what extenuating circumstances you have, you may not take any time off from school. You will be disenrolled from the program altogether. Death of family member, major illness, surgery...it doesn't matter, you cannot take any time off. This is just a really poorly run school. My advice to anyone would be to think long and hard before entering this program because the school's main priority is not ensuring its students graduate. If I had known how this program would be, I never would have enrolled.

Drianbamaged (In Progress) on December 25, 2011

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I was enrolled without my knoledge Jeff was sweet as pie when I began talking him. I told him from the first time we spoke that I was school shopping, I hadn't decided on school. He told me to change school on FAFSA so they could access my information.2 dys later my student adviser called me and i told him the same thing. I could't contact Jeff, voice-mail or any other way. So I left message with whoever answered call. The next day I got Email form financial department, ( Kim) telling me about award, I hadn't spoken to anyone about classes,tuition, cost, nothng, and I got email telling me I was enrolled and classes set up. I had no control over my experience. When I finally talked to Jeff , I told him I had changed my mind, and he went off on me, if these conversations are recorde you can hear ir for yourseld, he told me ai was stupid for changing schools, and how i would'nt do wee, and i would regret it, then he called me a liar. He said if I had'nt been so dihonest, they wouldn;t have wasted their time and expense to get my awars to gether. He was rude, he even brought up the last time I applied,cause my loans were in defeulat, he critizied me for that. Im mu opinion, he is pushy,rude, overpeowering and pushy.the tells you your dumb if you change your mind, i wa s still considering Argosy, till this. Pleas check it out. Kris wells, Carpenter

Anonymous (In Progress) on November 3, 2011

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Don't do it! Staff and department chair (no longer there) misrepresented APA accreditation process. Misrepresented support. My degree will not be worth much. They should have at least advised me to go into the PsyD program when I told them I was there for counseling licensure. Used to praise the three excellent instructors there and it gave e hope for the program but then they went over to the dark side and now-for me- with lack of internship and especially the access to one without APA, CAPIC and 2 needed practicums...it is not looking good. The new chair is unprofessional, extremely belligerent and threatening, so little help there.

Anonymous (In Progress) on December 10, 2010 (email verified)

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Argosy is a rip off I enrolled, but learned that the University is not CACREP accreditated as they had told me. Also was told that their disertation process was very easy and nobody has ever had problems with their review board. I don't want an easy degree, I want a degree that is worth something. Good luck getting a job. This school also has a 100% acceptance rate, that should tell you something. Tells me they take anyone as long as that federal money is commin gin.

Elizabethalecrone (In Progress) on September 2, 2010 (email verified)

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Respnsibility lies with the informed consumer. I hold a Masters degree as well as my undergraduate degree from a pretty good public university (The one with the really good football team; hint, 3 out of 4 top NFL draft picks this year came from this school and more merit scholars attend there than any other public university) I am a non-traditional student whose financial responsibilities preclude the ability of taking another four years out of the job market to do a brick and mortar doctorate. I did a lot of study on this matter and I am more than satisfied with the level of support, faculty and level of education that I am receiving. I came into the program highly motivated and with a very good graduate GPA. I knew coming in that licensure through the state would be coming through my 60+ postgraduate hours during my work on my MHR at that other University. That is the requirement for state licensure as an LPC and to qualify to test on a national level. My master's program had the unpaid practicum that is required for licensure. I knew this going in that I would not be eligible for licensure as a clinical psychologist. I need the Ed.D. to teach at the master' level at my alma mater so to make sure that it would work, I took the curriculum and course subject matter to the Department Chair of my alma mater for her approval. She did not have a problem with the program. I will be an LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor) who has obtained a terminal degree in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis on Counselor Education and Supervision. Counseling requires supervised practice (3000 hours of it by a board approved supervisor) for the LPC. You do not get that from an on-line program. No where in the information promises it either.

Anonymous (In Progress) on April 23, 2008

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Poor excuse for online education The only positive thing to say is that the books are great due to the fact that everything is self taught. They are quick to get you enrolled but once your in your pretty much in trouble. I got through my first session where one instructor droped off of the face of the earth and the other one has only graded 3 of my 30 assignments (note: I finished last week). If you are transferring credits from a University out of the U.S, please be careful for they will make you responsable for obtaining the transcript and having it transferred by one of their websites. It will cost a minimum of 130.00 on top of all their other fees. I'm trying to stick with this so that I don't lose any more money or waste any more time however; I'm not sure if this is the best choice. Beware of those friendly bubbly phone calls you get from the shark advisors who just want to get you in so they can make their monthly numbers. I wonder what sacs thinks about them?

Floralmarie (In Progress) on January 20, 2008

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Apathetic Faculty Attitude and Overpriced While the Tampa curriculum and lectures are good overall the school's administration and faculty neglect of students makes this a poor choice for a Masters or Doctoral program. Faculty support of students is far below the requirements for a student's success. Many instructors have no time to counsel students seeking assistance. There are far too many student grievances filed against faculty members considering its size. Additionally, the code of ethics engenders false allegations and dismissal of too many students for such a small institution. The school is very overpriced. Advise against seeking admission.

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