B.S. Criminal Justice Reviews

Great school

By: adf1977 (In Progress) on June 28, 2008

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I will graduate in November and have 3 sessions left. I am an A student with a 4.0 GPA. The instructors are outstanding and really know their stuff. They provide live chat lectures and encourage the students to think for themselves. The multimedia presentation are also very helpful towards completing the tasks given. CTU does not make you take tests, unless you are just starting out. I never had any real issues with my advisors, only when I needed to drop a class, so I could go to a funeral. The only thing I hate doing is group projects. You have to deal with fellow group members not participating or doing a poor job on their assignment, then you end up with a low grade. You then have to negotiate with your instructor. Some instructors do not base your grade on the quality of the other members. The assignments are not a joke and can be very difficult if you do not use your resources. I would recommend CTU for people who really want to obtain a degree.

Pleasantly Surprised & Satisfied

By: chrisingrassia (Graduate) on March 1, 2008

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Let me just start off by saying that I am not an employee of CTU. I'm Chris Ingrassia, so you can verify that I was really a student. 

This school has its pros and cons. 
First, the pros:
The curriculum is very well-organized and straight forward. When completing an online program, just know that it requires you to be extremely diligent and focused on the tasks. All classes are 5 weeks long, you take 2 classes at a time. That's upwards of 20-25 assignments in 5 weeks! The university website is very clean and easy to navigate. Live lectures are cool, the professors can display PPT's or documents as they speak. The professors that I had were awesome.

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I hated group projects!! Please....if you decide to attend an online university, make sure you are prepared to commit the time and effort to your work and to other students. The incessant focus on proper APA formatting rather than content quality got annoying. This can really be a discussion within itself, but I found the professors to really be overconcerned with it. My uncle always told me "you're not there for an A, you're there for a BA." It helped me to get past the petty grading and just consistently turn in quality assignments because I'm paying for the knowledge not the grade.

Overall, I'm satisfied with my university choice. Do the research first and understand what will be expected of you as a student. Like I already said, I wish that more students attending really actually cared about doing the best they can on an assignment. Doing simple steps like spell-and-grammar checks, proofreading your work before you turn it in, using high-quality references, and really putting thought and research into your assignments will make the education that much better. I hated reading assignments by students who half-assed their work. People probably think that online universities are easier than an "actual college." Well.....kiss it. I busted my butt for my degree, and spent countless hours doing research and writing assignments and reading the text and putting together slides, I'm now exhausted of it all. But I feel empowered by completing it. I skipped vacations, did homework on christmas day, and have created friendships with other students across the country. The price may be expensive, but it's probably cheaper than a standard 4-year, plus college isn't supposed to be cheap, so people complaining about the cost should stop their whining. Here is my email: chrisingrassia at hotmail dot com if you want to really speak to me about the campus or have real questions on anything. I would be glad to help with whatever you want to know about the campus. Thanks for reading, and best of luck!! 

Study hard, work fast, move on!

--Chris Ingrassia

B.S. Criminal Justice

By: deputylastrites (Graduate) on May 14, 2007

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I literally just finished all of my coursework and I officially graduate in two days.  I must admit that CTU is much like a brick and mortar institution that I had once attended.  There are many fantastic professors (more often than not) in this program.  They are usually professionals that are working in the field that they are teaching or they are recently retired from it.  I believe that this gives them a special insight into each course.  Each professor that I encountered had no less than an accredited master degree in their field.  Although some professors are better than others I suppose that is what it is like in any college.  There are various significant technological improvements since I began my attendance at the University.  Chief among these improvements is the TurnItIn.com authentication service where you can see if your paper is authentic or whether or not it has been copied somewhere on the internet.  The University also utilizes this technology to route out plagiarism.  I find this tool to be extremely important to any internet program’s credibility.  The BS in Criminal Justice program emphasizes that the student solve real world projects in order to test their knowledge.  Also there is a peer review and debate processes in the form of a discussion board where you can get you paper critiqued by another student and have the opportunity and duty to critique another student’s paper.  You are required to post a response to at least two students on the discussion board and those responses are required to be substantial.  There are also group projects (which I dreaded) that test your ability to coordinate with people from numerous different states, background, and in some cases time zones or even nations.  Group projects are quite difficult in many cases and require the cooperation of the group to make a good grade.  You are given quite a bit of lea way in how you complete your assignments but all of your assignments must be completed in the American Psychological Association’s format.  Professors are becoming more and stricter on the APA format so keep that in mind.  I personally believe that the APA format makes assignments more professionally accepted.  Now in the realm of cost, you should note that this particular program is quite expensive and will set you back about $30,000.00.  All in all I believe that this program taught me to be a better researcher and opened my eyes culturally with all of the different types of people that I had to deal with.  All in all it is a good program and it is getting better.

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