MBA Reviews

Fire Chief

By: ctomfly (Graduate) on June 8, 2009

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Two of my buddies and I were going to start a traditional nights weekend MBA program. However after doing traditional colleges for my AA and BSA, and having a growing family, I tried Walden for on-line ease and hopefully not being too difficult. Boy I was wrong. I spend three (years) Christmas days doing homework and almost failed statistics. For those bashing the school it’s probably because somebody they know went there and they are trying to discredit it. My two buddies had their degrees in just over two years. I had mine in three. I am Walden Proud!

Walden MBA

By: Anonymous (Graduate) on May 11, 2009

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Walden's MBA program by far exceeded my expectations.  I was able to create a business plan throughout the life of the program that will actually go into use.  The instructor and peer support were very helpful.  Great balance of challenging work with flexibility for full time working commitments.  Highly recommended.

Go somewhere else... anywhere else!

By: Anonymous (In Progress) on April 18, 2009

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What an incredible waste of time and money.  I have three previous degrees from traditional universities and decided to try the online experience.  It was awful.  After two full semesters I have a 4.0, but am switching to another university, and eating about $9,000.  But, it's worth it for me to have a degree from a school that is respected.  The students I had to work with were incredibly lazy. I honestly question the school's admission criteria.  Some of the other student's work is abysmal, yet they still make it from class to class.  If you want a valuable degree go elsewhere.  If you can’t write and have zero work ethic, Walden is for you.  I should have bought $9,000 worth of Cracker Jacks and hoped to find a degree there.  It'd likely be worth more.

Backup ALL your emails & get everything in writing

By: Anonymous (In Progress) on February 24, 2009

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My experience at Walden U was not as I had originally anticipated. At Walden, I think most of the instructors try to work with and have more patience with hardworking adults, who have children and other major responsibilities.  However, from my experience, there are a few that do not.  For instance, I had a family crisis and one of the teachers, who I thought,  would allow me to complete my work and grade it did not.  She let me do all the work and did not grade it, so I did not pass that course.  When I attempted to find the email that I sent her and she responded to, Walden University had purged the email system; thus not allowing me to appeal the grade.  I usually saved everything, but I did not get a chance to save that email to an external email.  When I first started the degree program, I used my hotmail account to receive email correspondence, but later they changed it where all of the student's email addresses were through Walden.  Now, I can see why.

Walden MBA is Competitive

By: Anonymous (In Progress) on November 21, 2008

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I would have to flat out disagree with the last person's assessment of the Walden MBA program.  Most of his issues seemed to be with the University--not the program.

I have two more courses before I complete my MBA in Project Management and have had only one professor that just gave me an "A" regardless of what I submitted. In my Business Finance course, I had the best professor (Dr. Jong Yi) that spent upwards of two hours *every week* explaining to me the lessons for that week because I had trouble.  I received an "A" in that course as I have in all my courses so far, but I worked *very* hard to do so. 

Listen, there are people who will throw together an assignment and not care how it comes out. Some people cheat and plagerize.  I did thorough research, worked in teams, and worked with my professors to get through each course (2-eight week courses per semester). That is why I thought I got a lot out of it.  The one course that I got the most out of was a Marketing class where we fought a lot due to conflicting ideas regarding our team assignment.  But let's face it--isn't that what the work place going to be like anyway?

I gave Walden University a "9" overall because I have enjoyed my experience. Plan on getting the "Walden U" shirts, coffee mugs and stickers for my cars.  I found the reading materials, course texts, articles, etc. top-notch and updated to reflect current trends.  The PowerPoint presentations with the live videos were refreshing and took the place of the instructor lectures.  Never had any measurable issue with support and I have been able to work on my school work while traveling numerous times for work and while on vacation at Disney World (not something I loved to do--I had to do it!).  How else can you do that and attend a brick and mortar?  Very impressed with the use of technology--definately got exposed to technologies I hadn't previously known about. 

It would have been ideal to attend an accredited school locally such as Georgia State, Emory or Kennesaw State here in Atlanta, but let's face it. Unless, I leased a private helicopter, how would I be able to make the weeknight courses with all our traffic?  And Weekends? I am a parent, those are for piano lessons, laundry and karate.  An at-home program works just fine for me.  I schedule the time, and I control my learning.  I also like the principle of social change that is the undercurrent of each course.  The school is accredited and I know people who have gotten MBA's from Emory who many have the fancy paper, but still don't have a clue in the work place.  

So like everything else, your experience at Walden will be what you make of it.  It is not perfect and your mileage will vary.  But please know there are way more people that love the school than hate it.

Support at Walden University is a JOKE!!!

By: bakernc03 (Graduate) on October 2, 2008

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I completed my undergraduate degree at Walden University in Business Administration. The administrative support I received was absolutely terrible. This problem wasn't limited to one department either. I had trouble with the Financial Aid department, the Bursars office, the Academic Advisors, the "Graduation Team", etc. Every issue I encountered required me to e-mail and call at least ten times (and this is not an exaggeration and I have the e-mail chains to prove it for anyone doubting me on this). Nobody would ever handle any of my problems, and I was constantly pushed off on other people. I have never received this poor of customer service from any other organization (and I've had to deal with a lot of notoriously poor organizations like the VA, DoD Records Offices, State Unemployment Office, and Credit Card companies).

I have been done with the Walden program for two months now, and of course I still can't get anyone to respond to me and tell me if they are even working on processing/issuing my degree. Also, I still haven't received my Financial Aid award (Pell Grant and Stafford Loan) from 4 months ago. In fact, I was actually told today that I will not receive it, because the school didn't process it on time. Apparently the Financial Aid has to be processed during the term it is to be awarded for (although I submitted it two weeks prior to the term's end date, apparently it takes three months to process like everything else at Walden).

Other than the administrative support, the program was ok. The courses were easy and you received a 100 on pretty much any assignment as long as you submitted it. Everything I learned in the program came from reading the text books, as the teachers provide little to no lecture.

The program price is a little costly, but the convenience of doing your degree quickly (easily handled 3 six-week courses at a time to complete 19 classes in a little over a year of course time) and at your own time added to the value.

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