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(Graduate) on January 12, 2012

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Please read this heed my advice As a recent graduate and former employee for over 3 years I suggest you consider looking at other options...the campus is run as a Christian Univ but online is far from it. The compelling motivation is money, bottom line, profits for their investors and succeed at all costs. This Univ is not authentic. The employees are a good group but the management team comes from other online for profit schools and almost all of them are frauds. There is no integrity here I am considering mailing back my degree I am so disgusted in the way they treat their staff and their students. Financial aid counselors have little empathy and believe all students want money (stipend) not a good education. The full time faculty are instructed to pass every student in the early courses. The CEO recently joked "how do you kill a frog? Throw him in a pot of cold water and turn on the heat" HA HA Enrollment counselors are referred to as "monkeys or dogs"... My advice, go to community college for 2 years, look into Western Governors Univ or Liberty if you want a "Christian" school, less money and better value. The school is corrupt and rotten at the top level, unfortunately most of the staff are really good people who care. The good ones eventually get fired if they do not "produce" which is to sell...and that means enroll students at all costs. Grow the school and increase profits and make the stockholders happy and earn the CEO his $ 1 million annual Bonus. What a crock. If I can sway one student away from here I believe I have been successful and cost the school over $54,000 in lost profit for their bogus bachelor degree. By the way they claim over 40,000 online students per year X $2000 per class X 6 classes per year = $480,000,000 over 90% of which comes from loans guaranteed by US taxpayers and lining their pockets. Jesus would be ashamed using his name in vain, "Christian University" no way.

Anonymous (In Progress) on November 14, 2011 (email verified)

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The worst university out there! This so called accredited school was horrible. I took one semester of classes, only to be charged more money than if I was to attend a truly accredited school. They never take your calls. Every time you call you get transferred to a voice mail, and surprise surprise never get a call back. The instructors are rude, and not understanding. My grandmother died while I was attending, and not one of my instructors could have cared less. They would not accept my assignments late. NOT EVEN FOR HALF CREDIT!! You get made fun of both by the instructors, and the counselors. They put you in teams in the classes for some assignments. The members of your teams are always in time zones that make it near impossible to do work together. You can do the best work in the class, and get the worst grade. This is because the instructors play favorites. I would never ever suggest this SCAM of a university to anyone. They are out only to take money from people!

Bumantoo (In Progress) on October 24, 2011 (email verified)

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Good Support I began in the Finance and Economics degree plan in Jan of 2011. So far I have found the plan challenging and the staff to be helpful when I had questions. I have an academica counselor who contacts me at least once a month and respons to all of my calls and emails. Same for my finance counselor. In only one class did I have a CLC and it was for only 1 project, my entire grade did not rely on it. I have run into people that should not have been in college level courses but that was in the two basic courses everyone has to start in. So far in the upper level courses I have not run into that problem. I am in the military and would recommend this school to anyone. I attended Chaminade University Online and when compared to that GCU doe a much better job.

Anonymous (In Progress) on October 18, 2011

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Review from an employee/student POV I work at GCU and if it were not for the free classes I would not be attending. I definitly wouldnt suggest someone I love to go! I see people stating how hard it is to reach a counselor but that is BS because all you have to do is press 2 and you will be transferred to the next available one if your assigned is unavailable. Most schools don't offer a personal FC/AC so quit complaining and quit worring about when your refund check is coming and concentrate on the school work you are there for. As far as the ethics of the school...this is where the problem comes in... they will financially screw any student that doesn't understand they have the right to go to the top if needed. Some instructors offer little instruction, but there is still the select few that do, as with most online schools. My suggestion would be to do your research before going to this school and make sure you are going for the education and not the check that comes...

Anonymous (Graduate) on May 2, 2011

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Business Adminstration Review The entire college experience is all based on the premise of: you get back what you put into it. I am student that started my career at the University of Louisville which has a top tier business program. GCU may not have the greatest system in place but as far as the material, it is of the same you will cover anywhere else. I graduated with honors and have recently been accepted to law school in the fall.

Imbaragas (In Progress) on March 13, 2011 (email verified)

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I can't believe that this school is this bad and is still accredited I am an online student at GCU and have found that the admissions standards for adult students is laughable. The grades for each class rely, in large part, on CLC (team) projects. I have been on many of these teams and have found that students do not know how to write college-level English, much less how to construct simple sentences with the right words. The result of these "team projects", is that I lost a 4.0 average, because my teammates, who were purportedly skilled enough to continue with college-level courses, could not grasp the concept of the project, did not know how to follow the basic instructions of the project and abjectly refused any idea that did not align with theirs. GCU faculty advocates that more proficient students take the largest burden of these class projects and make sure that the team receives a high mark for the project. This is absolutely unfair to students with appropriate skill sets. If you have the opportunity to go to a different school - GO and don't look back. I wish I had. The "professors" are, with few exceptions, inept, especially if students who are woefully lacking comprehension and writing skills continue to pass classes. GCU is very vocal about not tolerating plagiarism. Really??? I caught another student copying my work word-for-word (he didn't even have the brains to change it up a little). I brought it to the attention of the "professor" who did not follow the protocol posted on the university's website. Yes, I am incensed, but because I am close to graduation, I am putting up with these shenanigans. I will be starting my MBA right after I finish my Bachelor's and I will not even consider GCU as an option.

Zoneblitz8 (In Progress) on December 20, 2010 (email verified)

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Not Good This school is a joke. The teachers are not available when you need them and the counselors take forever, if at all, to respond to questions. This school needs an overhaul.

Anonymous (Graduate) on October 14, 2010 (email verified)

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Horrible experience I started attending GCU online because I accepted a job that required me to work long hours and not attend the traditional classroom setting. At first it was great and only needed 30 hours to graduate. I loved the classes and learned a lot. I improved my writting skills and enjoyed the learning process. The problems started in March 2010 when I requested a degree audit because I knew I was getting close to graduating with just a few classes to go. At the end of the semester I still did not have a degree audit. My academic advisor ( the 5th in less than a year) informed me that I still needed 28 hours to graduate. I knew this was wrong and asked for another review. In June I finished another sememster and still there was not a audit. Finally in september I was informed that I was right and did not need anymore classes and that I had taken 2 classes that were not even need!!! ( at 1500 a class) I have not taken clasess since then and on October 10th I finally recieved my diploma and transcripts. 4 months of calling almost everyday and talking to at least 20 different people on the academic and finance side. I forgot one thing that is very important it took tham 4 weeks to fix an accounting error that in the end was prohibiting me from recieving my actual transcripts. Classes great. Staff morons. If you expect to speak to the same person more than once good luck. My stepdad just completed his Masters of Education and long story short same problems. He was told he needed one more class and all the sudden dimploma was in the mail with transcripts. Really.

Brmbland (In Progress) on October 11, 2010 (email verified)

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Typical online college Do not attend this school. There is no support by the staff. When I first started attending this school, they provided books. They changed their policy when I started taking my core courses and required the use of an e-book, which is a PDF document. If you don't have the money to buy tones of paper and toner, then you are out of luck. I started failing and asked for help and was ignored. They took all of my financial aid, while encouraging to keep attending, knowing that I was failing. Now, I cannot attend school for another 8 months and my loans may go into default. It wasn't until after all of this started happening they suggested a leave of abscense, but by then I had already failed a course. I begged for help but was ignored. After setting up payment arrangements for a failed course, they sent me an exit counseling interview letter. I'm so mad! I did everything I could to stay with this school and was totally ignored.

Anonymous (In Progress) on September 15, 2010

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Great School, Poor Support I'm currently 7 courses deep in the Applied Management program. It is great for the working professional / family man (or woman) / and Christian. I will agree with the critical posts in regards to the support from administration. Aside from my enrollment counselor, it is nearly impossible to reach someone to assist you. In regards to the instructor staff, it has been hit or miss. Two of the seven courses have had instructors who responded only with canned answers, if they responded at all. Three were stellar. The other two were very similar to other mediocre professors I've encountered in the past. It seems that the Christian focus is slipping a bit, and I hope that aspect rebounds soon.

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

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BE AWARE I would not recommend this university to any military personnel taking online courses. This institution claims to be "military friendly" but is only friendly with your funds. Obtaining a degree online is essential for military personnel who are always on the go, but if the university that you are attending doesn't show you the support you need in order to obtain it; if they are unreachable and not dependable; if they only show interest in you, just to get you through the door...you might as well save yourself the time and search somewhere else, because GCU will give you just what I described and nothing more. Do your research before you spend your hard earned money a college that looks at you as just another $.

Rugtugco (In Progress) on March 11, 2010

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Watch out for this school Once their counselor showed me how to log in and post my bio I never heard anything further, and was unable for various reasons to get back into the class site. Support was slow; be prepared to spend a lot of time listening to elevator music while waiting on hold. They were able to bill me $1500 for that one visit and for not properly withdrawing from the class within 1 week. Their financial department is darn near unreachable. Avoid these people. Local community colleges are much cheaper and easier to deal with than these thieves.

Anonymous (In Progress) on September 28, 2009 (email verified)

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OVER COST SEMESTER DO NOT GO TO THIS SCHOOL UNLESS YOU PLAN ON WASITING MONEY!!! Especially if you are a online student they will OVERCHARGE YOU on classes and say you signed up and didn't cancel until after the cutoff date ( WHICH FOR ME WAS LESS THAN 24 hrs FROM ORIGINAL REQUEST) WHICH NOW IS GOING TO COST ME MORE THAN $ 3,000.00 !!! I DIDNT KNOW LESS THAN 24 HRS COSTS $3,000!!!

Cblucky59 (In Progress) on August 28, 2009 (email verified)

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Great program, but Lousy Support. Prior to actually being enrolled at GCU; whenever I call, I always get a voice mail. It has gotten to the point that I don't leave voice messages any longer. I send an e-mail for two reasons; so I know how many times I've attempted to get a response on that particular question and because it takes so long to get in contact with anyone, that more questions arise. The program is great and courses are very mind stimulating, but it is the lack of support. Aside from your "team" consisting of 1 enrollment counselor, 1 academics counselor and 1 finance counselor, nobody can answer your questions.

Mcbop (In Progress) on August 10, 2009 (email verified)

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Great Mind Expansion! I stumbled upon GCU. At first I wondered if the cyber expereince would be challenging. Well I can tell you it is! Some have written that there is a lot of work. I would say there is work to do, but what do you want? Do you want a piece of paper that has no meaning, or do you want to gain knowledge that will help you in your career and in life? I can say that my like both personally and professionally has changed a great deal. I have never worked harder in school and I have never felt so rewarded. Yes there is a religious studies component, but that is only a couple of classes and there are options other than pure Christianity. This has been agreat experience for me.

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