Business, Management and Economics, Concentration in Business Management Reviews

Are you kidding?

By: johnlove1 (In Progress) on February 22, 2008

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This school with the excpetion of a few great instructors has only two things going for it. First, they offer classes online which allows the student to accomplish them at a convenient pace. That does not mean that they allow you to complete them at your pace as advertised. Second, they are at least for now accredited which adds a measure of credibility to the diploma.

I will not bash them simply to bash and understand that these are my own experiences. The school is marginal at best. For the first two years they never had enough staff to process student loans which meant above average waits for loan disbursement. Now that same staff is simply incompetent but there are enough of them. I was graded at least in one instance on how well I related to the instructor and not on merit. After a lengthy process that situation was remedied. The online based school has frequent scheduled outages for their web site. This would be okay if they scheduled these outages for periods that did not involve every students deadline for submitting homework (ussually Sunday). Many instructors still have not mastered the internet or the school's web site. Grading is ultimately accomplished but the gee whiz web site offers continous feedback that is never properly used (I currently have a 333.33% in Income Tax 2). 20% of most course grades are based on regular contributions to discussion posts. The grading on these discussion posts are subjective and vary by instructor. This would be okay if the instructors used the 'grade book' on the website so you could gauge your level of response or even pointed out examples of good posts. I could go on and on. 

If you are considering Empire, I wish you better luck than I had.