Applied Management Reviews

Got my degree, I am where I want to be!

By: Anonymous (Graduate) on June 22, 2008

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I graduated from NAU back in 2002 via online.  Seemed like after I graduated and told people about my online degree they were like "you can do that?"  I did attend the Ellsworth campus from 99-00.  Overall I did a little over a year of online schooling and am now looking to start my masters degree.  The biggest con I can say about this school is the price-I think I paid somewhere around $200 per credit hour for my undergrad and they are now going to be charging $330 per credit hour for a masters degree.  Oh and they want more credits than other universities (for a masters it will take nearly 3 yrs to get my masters vs around 2 yrs at most other schools).  
As far as their online program, (undergrad) I was pretty impressed.  All my teachers were willing to help when I needed it and being in the military, they all were more than fair in working with me so to work around my TDYs and deployments.  
Overall, NAU is a great school that is regionally accredited.  I am very happy to have gone there for my undergrad but unfortunatly I will not attend for my graduate degree.  In this day of the online school explosion alot of private schools have gotten VERY competitive in getting your business.  I could go to NAU and tap into my GI bill and take an extra year to get my degree or go to another school where everything including books is paid for in 3/4ths of the time.

Beware

By: Anonymous (In Progress) on October 9, 2007

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I had several questionable incidents with NAU, mostly related to administration of records and office support. Beware that the college does not maintain records in the manner it should; it is not uncommon to have grades recorded incorrectly and to have to wade through their cumbersome grievance procedure to correct the errors.  

Due to the exceptionally high turnover in professors, academic deans, and other personnel you may experience other delays and annoyances.  I stuck it out at NAU due to the time and money already invested, and the difficulty in transferring credits to other institutions.  If you are considering NAU I would strongly suggest you look at other choices; you pay a lot per quarter credit (more than attending a public university) to receive a degree with much less stature.  

NAU does have a fairly good WebCT environment, but make sure you save all e-mails, make print screen copies, and keep your records in order. The other positive of attending NAU is their Applied Management program that allows you to transfer in previous college course work as your core focus of management.  

On a scale of 1 to 10 NAU earns a solid 2. I highly recommend exploring other institutions.

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