Western International University

Worst college I have ever attended !
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Good Luck

I am currently at WIU and would caution people who are looking into it. I have had a terrible experience with the financial and academic advisors. Someone mentioned before that they change academic advisors alot. Well, they do. Half the time I don't know who it is and when I do know who it is I never receive responses back to emails. As far as the financial aide advisor I wont talk to her at all. I continue to receive nasty letters from the school between payouts from my financial aide saying that I owe them money and it needs to be paid right away. It always works out in the end, but they never apologize for sending out these letters that have nothing to do with me.
I have enjoyed some of my instructors and have really only been challenged by 2 in my two years that I have been here.

Since WIU is owned by the Apollo Group, it has the same shady financial aid practices as University of Phoenix.

I complained to UoP about the curriculum being less difficult at Western International University (also owned by Apollo) and Axia College of University of Phoenix than the curriculum I had in high school. The "adviser" bragged about the curriculum being at the community college level. So let me get this straight.......UoP charges $365 per credit in the associates program plus an $80 rEsource fee per course right? WIU charges $400 per credit for lower division undergraduate programs right? Um...the community colleges in my city have the same degree program completely online and they only charge $53 per credit plus $60-$100 per course for textbooks. I'll even have enough money after the free grant money is paid out to reimburse me for the books and I won't have to take out student loans. That is why I transferred. I'm already paying taxes to subsidize the tuitions at public schools in Texas, so I might as well take advantage of those lower tuitions.

I was re-adminitted to WIU in May of 2009 with approximately one year+ left of classes.  WIU employees processed my loan and then began funding my classes.  The academic advisor group was a complete farce and I have at least 5 advisors in the first 9 months.  There were so many screw-ups and miscommunications with each advisors and they reclassified my major which resulted in additional classes once it was classified correctly. At $1500 per class, I am paying dearly for their lack of training and job knowledge. I never received a clear answer about my degree agenda.  I kept receiving emails that instructed me to look up my evaluation on the website and figure it out. I found it much easier, quicker and less frustrating to look in the catalog for answers rather than calling an "advisor trainee".  Assessment for Prior Learning is a huge joke and expensive proposition. Apollo Group has already decided what they will and will not accept, so you are writing them a check for what, I don't know. In the last 15 months I have yet to meet any staff at WIU that is a student advocate.  It is a "for-profit" school 110%.  The student's loan funds come first and the student comes dead last.  Good luck finding someone with any authority to make a decision.  I have about three months left to finish my degree and I am so completely frustrated and annoyed with everyone I have encountered at WIU, I am serously thinking about looking into an alternative degree option rather than continuing to fund this school and their band of slackers.  Did any of the WIU staff graduate with a business degree?  Communications? Management? For the price of this degree, I will not be proud to have it on my resume or communicate it to associates.

Western International University called it quits on the Criminal Justice program while I was halfway through. A teacher by the name of Layne Slapper $exually harrassed me I contacted Kay Look the student director about the situation. All she had to say about it was what did you do to provoke him. I had emails in hand and she still didnt care. They claimed they fired him when in fact they didn't continue the program and he was going to be let go anyway. Then on top of that she wrote a pathetic sorry letter on his behalf. After the incident was brought to her attention my classes were being switched around and moved without my knowledge. Not feeling comfortable at school I was forced with the decision of leaving. While I did atten WIU I watched several of my peers leave time after time because the staff didn't have it together.

I started taking online classes at W.I.U.  in April of 2005. Today I am 1/2 way through my Master's degree at U.O.P. The only thing that upset me was finding out I could get higher degrees than Associates from W.I.U. I miss the idea of doing all my work myself and I thought the professors were fantastic, except, for a couple of them.

I can't speak highly enough of WIU online. I just recently completed my BS in Business and although it took me 6 years to complete (I took a few LOAs) along the way, it was a fabulous education. All of my professors were highly educated and I enjoyed taking the classes online. Because I live so far away, I was not able to take advantage of the on campus classes, but from what I understand those are great as well. I had also noticed over the years that many improvements were made to the on-line experience and classes. The academic counselors were great. I would highly recommend anyone wishing to pursue your degree, especially if you have been out of school for awhile (as I was), to seriously consider WIU. It was a great ride and I learned more than I ever imagined I would in the beginning. A lot of work, but a lot of satisfaction as well.

I find WIU to be a wonderful place to achieve success. I obtained my Bachelors Degree and currently working on my Masters.

The course work is intense, but the outcome achieved is real life and the knowledge will be an asset in any occupation.

Money is factor, however, education is money and that is a fact that can not be avoided. 

I would encourage anyone who is looking to further their career to look into WIU.

I earned my A.A. degree in Business at WIU back in April of 2006. I am now studying at Chapman University located in Organe, Ca. A traditional prestigious, southern California university that has AACSB accredited accredited programs. If WIU is good enough for Chapman its good enough for me. :)

WIU was bought by apollogroup. apollogroup took a part of WIU and made it AXIA. AXIA is now a part of UOPX. However, WIU still has WIU ground classes, and WIU Interactive (Online). The ground and interactive degrees are from the real WIU that has not changed since before apollogroup bought them.

This school is great.  All our tests our open book!  I love it.

I attended this University and it's really worth. I had a great time and I would definitely give 5 stars.

This is where I started my associates degree, before they convinced me to switch to their UOP program. I personally LOVED WIU, and the price was better than UOP, even though they are owned by Apollo group. This is a good university, and I would gladly take Grad courses through them, if they offered what I am majoring in. Unfortunately, they don't. I highly recommend them to anyone. My husband got his AAB from them, and may pursue his Master's through them. :)

I am a WIU graduate with my BS/Business and minor in International Business and attended both ground classes and online course with tremendous success and satisfaction. Prior to this I attended school at Scottsdale CC where I got my Associates Degree in Business. School is all what you make of it.You have to even treat it like a business and make yourself accountable for what you learn as well as what you get from it. I hate reading some posting about how its another UOP hoax or any of that crap. Many people have been real successful with UOP degrees or Arizona State degrees because they used the knowledge they obtained and APPLIED it to something rather than being ignorant. My WIU experience was very good and some of the classes were easy and some were hard much like any school. My instructors were all very good but some could have been better but I had the same experience in other schools and even high school. WIU is a great school if it works for you and you are willing to put your time in to earn your degree because no one is just going to give it to you so it takes work on your part but the educational experience and institution are terrific. There is nothing worse than ignorance and so what if they are a "for Profit" institution being that it is the fundamental concept of Capitalism and business big deal. Do what works best for you and let the rest of the yahoos sit around and bitch as you pass them along the way.

I recieved my A.A in Business Management from WIU. Some thing I did not like was the fact that I was constently given a new counselor and couldnt keep up. I enjoyed most of my professors. Some were there more than others. Some Profesors never call you via-phone even though you ask them to for help; but like in every-day life, you'll find those certain teachers who care more about their students than others. They have a 24/7 technical support for students which is great in case you encounter a problem with the student site. from a 1-10 I would rate my experience with Western International University an 7 because it tends to be pricey.

Western International University is a "for profit" university owned by the "for profit" University of Phoenix.

Research is a great thing... WIU is actually an individualized version of UoP. No groups. And Axia is not WIU anymore, its actually the online junior college of UOP with associates degrees only. WUI offers Bachelors and Masters degrees. Get your facts straight guy.

Who are they trying to fool. This is UOP/Apollo Groups newest version of the same old crap. Dont waste your time. By the way, they are now called AXIA.