Ashford University - Social Science/Education

Disappointed

By: Anonymous (In Progress) on July 27, 2009

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I attended Ashford for the last year. I found their curriculum to be extremely predictable and it offered no challenge whatsoever. If you like writing papers, this is the school for you because this is just about all you will do. 

The work assigned throughout each course offered me no real value. I do not believe that I would have been prepared to go out into the workforce upon graduation if I continued with Ashford.

Their financial aid dept. is awful to work with. They are very rude and ignore emails. They have a rule of dispersing out funds in a 30/70 manner. In other words, if you need your excess funds for books....you are going to have to wait. They "issue" out 30% of your excess funds only after 7 weeks of successful attendance, then after another 7 weeks, you get the remaining 70%. And 'round and 'round it goes. 

If you are looking for a quality education with involved instructors this is not the college for you. I have had many classes where the instructors communicated with students very minimally. 

I do not think that this college is a scam, however, I do think that it is not a college that will do anybody much justice if you really want to learn new things that will be helpful to you and your career choice.