Ashford University - Bachelors of Science

My Brief Ashford Experience

By: Anonymous (In Progress) on January 19, 2009

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I completed 9 credits at Ashford University. To be honest, my experience was not all that bad. In fact, "good enough" may be the perfect words to describe my thoughts here.

All 9 of my credits tranferred seamlessly into my local state college when I was ready to move on, which was rather quickly. I will admit that my writing skills improved significantly during my brief stay with Ashford. Although, I must say that writing was always a relatively strong skill for me anyway. All in all, I learned several valuable skills at Ashford University in spite of the fact that I only took 3 classes.

I had three different instructors. One was mediocre, one was absolutely excellent, and one was lousy to the deepest depths of what lousy could possibly mean to any one person. This is the reason that the overall rating I gave was a 5.

Having said that, I ultimately transerred out of Ashford because I am a high-achieving adult student and I could get into better colleges. Ashford is so open enrollment that people without high school diplomas have claimed to be admitted into Ashford. Honestly, I got to see really serious grade inflation first hand because some of the people in my online class were barely functioning at a ninth-grade level and were being passed through the system. This is true without a doubt.

I think it is very likely that AU's reputation will continue to collapse for as long as witnesses to this grade inflation phenomenon are talking online. A college degree from Ashford will probably be viewed as a college degree for people who couldn't perform well in a traditional university. This comment is not to slam its curriculum, which I already admitted was decent. This comment is designed to mention that not everyone is quite capable of being college material. In my opinion, Ashford University is a college that better serves the needs of these people than those who can be successful at more selective institutions.