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Sort By: [Date] [Major] [Rating] Public Health  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Not so bright I am a current student at Northwestern college(formerly known as Northwestern Business College).At the time of admissions(July'08) I was promised a short term certificat- -ion process ,Life-time Job placement,and a better career in my field.Nine months later, 3 interviews, and 13.5K dollars later,with dual certificate. I can not use the dual certification in Phlebotomy/EKG in the field, because the school does not partner with ANY hospital.So the current student may gain experience in a hospital setting. Employers WILL NOT HIRE YOU IF YOU DON'T HAVE ANY EXPERIENCE IN A HOSPITAL SETTING ACCOMPANIED WITH YOUR THEORY HOURS(eg. SOUTH SUB.-MORAINE VALLEY)so when they tell you lifetime placement, that why it will take a lifetime( pertaining to those two certification) better luck w/ NURSING and RADIOLOGY(just joking, LOOK some where else to obtain certification and a higher education, the school is a rip-off. Faculty Accessibility: D+, Education Quality: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Mar 26 2009 1st Year Female -- Class 2009    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=58851&uid=2097'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Accounting  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright I went to an "Open House" last night after making a call to the admissions office to get some more information on tuition/class schedule for the Accounting Cert program. That Open House was more akin to a lot of low-income level people who desperately wanted some free pizza and a free backpack. The staff seemed partially retarded, they wouldn't truly answer a single one of my questions, just kept giving me business cards to call other people for more questions. If you are on the staff, at an Open House, YOU should be the one able to best answer my questions. Period. I spoke briefly with the financial aid staffer who again, dodged everyone's question of what will it REALLY cost me to go here? Granted, you can't give specifics as each individual course load and assistance will be different, but my god, ballpark it for the kid! I am 33 years old and just looking for the paper backup to the accounting skills I have already acquired at various jobs, and when I did the math, the tuition for the 30 credit hour course would have run approx. $13k!!! I was FLOORED to say the least. Wright College, which is a REAL school only a couple of miles away is $75/per credit hour, and this JOKE of a business school is $390?!? One look at this place was enough to tell me that it wasn't worth five dollars and I would probably walk out of there dumber than when I walked in. CHECK OUT OTHER ALTERNATIVES...THIS PLACE IS A RIP-OFF. Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Jan 30 2009 1st Year Female -- Class 2013    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=57350&uid=2097'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Business - Management and Administration  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright Northwestern Business College is not a good school to attend. The school and staff are a big joke. Tuition is raised just about every year and school charges for unnecessary fees, like parking, which most of the student don't use. Some staff are rude and snotty towards students(such as; financial aid department,financial planning and student services)just about all these departments are clueless, when it comes to your classes and financial account. The classes doesn't relate to the real work world and I really didn't learn anything from this school. Surrounding City: A-, Education Quality: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Dec 08 2008 2nd Year Female -- Class 2008    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=56132&uid=2097'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   PreLaw and Legal  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Not so bright If I knew then what I now realize, I would NOT be in attendance. My experience at Northwestern Business College (in no way affiliated with Northwestern University) has been shockingly similar to that of other reviews. Simply put, the real reason why NWBC is called Northwestern BUSINESS College is because the school is in business, the business of fleecing students out of their money, and business is good! My specific qualms: (1) Academics are sub-par. Tests and quizzes are often open book! Even so, these tests would be impossible without being open book, or at last open note. As such, most classes discourage the students from studying instead leaving us to take a tedious examination. (2) The teachers themselves range from satisfactory to excellent, but the support staff are rather incompetent. The teachers would be more helpful if not for the fact that they do not have offices, making them almost impossible to meet in person outside of class. (3) The process of transferring course credit from other colleges is complicated. (4) Students PAY money to attend any college, therefore they are CUSTOMERS. Customers come first! But apparently not at NWBC. At any real college (even community colleges and junior colleges), most courses are offered multiple times on multiple days of the week, providing students with flexible schedules. At this college, some courses only have one class per term, others might have two or three, and some do not even meet in a term. As a result, rather than students planning a schedule that suits them, in true Stalinist fashion, "We" (the institution) determine when students may and may not take classes. But what if I live over a half an hour away from the nearest campus and would prefer to take all my classes on two days of the week. Unfortunately that is not often possible because most classes are offered once per quarter. (5) Case in point, I had to take an online course because an acceptable traditional class was unavailable. Online courses should never be offered except as an alternative for those students who would prefer it. Pressuring students to take an online course is unfair, particularly when that course is BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS, one which really may not suitably be taught online. (6) Many of the courses are bogus ones devised to rake extra tuition bucks. In fact, an AAS is worth 100 credit hours (though this is probably the equivalent of 75 at most schools, which go by a semester system). Some of the classes are electives to pad the curriculum, others seem to be redundant or duplicate classes. In short, Northwestern Bu$ine$$ College robbed me of time and money. The teachers are mostly qualified, but the school is so poorly run that the effectiveness of education there is severely compromised. Surrounding City: A, Useful Schoolwork: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Apr 20 2008 1st Year Male -- Class 2008    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=46307&uid=2097'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save      Prev    Select Page:  1    Next

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