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Sort By: [Date] [Major] [Rating] Business - Management and Administration  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Bright I've been a college student for the last 6 years. It not because I've failed or I'm trying to be a docter, I've justs moved a number of times. Transfering credits is never fun by the way! I started at a state university out of High School but after the first year I didn't like being away from my family and future wife. The only 4 year College in my hometown was an expensive catholic school so I decided I would just finish an associates degree at the local technical university which was parterned with the state university I was previously attending. By the time I completed my Associates of Science I had over a hundred credits between the two school I had attended and the college credits I had obtained in highschool. At that point I took a position with a large company that provided tuition re-imbursment and they encouraged me to complete my bachelors degree. My schedual isn't the most flexible and I couldn't afford to loose any hours though, so I began to look into Online Bachelors Programs. Another invidual in my office was completing a Masters programs through CTU and had nothing but good things to say about it so I looked into it. It's been a little over a year now and all in all I'm enjoying my time at CTU. It's definetly a lot harder to get A's then I thought it would be! To be honest I went in thinking it would be a breeze compared to the other colleges I've been to, imagine my surprise then when I realized I would actually have to study and participate in the class to make it through! My Associates of Science degree was in computer science, and my Bacholors program at CTU is through their degree Completion program for a BSBA with an emphasis in IT managment. The business courses are informative and the chats are invaluable in getting a true understanding of the material. A variety of assignments which include papers, presentations, and even group projects make sure things don't get to repetative, so thats a plus. You can definetly tell they are fighting to be looked at just like any other brick-and-morter college is, and the way they structure the classes is definetly based off of this goal with a technological twist. There are definetly challenging assignment and they heavily encourage group participation and discussion. Before I finish there are a few things about CTU Online, and any online school I imagine, that I would like to talk about. Just like with Manufactured homes and self-published books there is still a certain stigma attached to Online schools, be prepared for it before you decided to start. The honest truth is had it not been for the fact that my company fully recognizes the school and its degrees I probably wouldn't have gone. I am very glad that I chose to go to CTU. So much so I even talked my wife into going! Most of my friends graduated from your standard college and at first I felt like my degree won't stand up to theirs, but having gone to both types of schools now I realize that I'm happy with CTU and I feel it is a worthwhile degree I'm working to obtain. Look up any online school and you'll find that most of the, including CTU, are for profit schools which never looks good. The way I figure it at any school you go to your paying money and people are getting paid, so until a free college comes around I don't let that fact get to me to much. As long as the school is accredited, hopefully both regionally and nationally, your safe. By safe I mean its not some scam where you send money and they send you a peice of pretty paper. If you look into it about any online school will have internet posts about it being a Scam. This is just something I had to accept when I chose to go to CTU. Usually the scam posts just sound like someone that wasn't happy with the school and they wanted to vent, which is something you'll find with any school. So look into all of your options yourself and make your own decision about what a school has to offer before you pay thousands of dollars to go there. What it all comes down to in the end is that you get out of going to school what you put into it. This goes for Colorado Technical University or any other school you're looking at. If you go into each class wanting to learn and you put the time into it each night you'll come out knowning the subject very well. If you just want good grades and the peice of paper so you picked an online school you probably won't make it. Trust me, its a lot of work to go to school online when the only person motivating you is you. The same can be said for all schools, but its different when your sitting at home with a chat about to start and the link to the webpage is right next to a shortcut to that new video game you just got(Crysis being my own demotivator at the moment. I know its been out for awhile, but I'm a poor college student so I had to wait for the price to drop!) We'll, thats all I got. Hopefully that gives you an idea of what to expect of CTU - Online Friendliness: A+, Social Life: B Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Sep 29 2008 1st Year Male -- 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=54594&uid=3820'></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   Computer Science  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright Colorado Technical University is a diploma mill. They were in 1998-2000 when I attended, and no doubt still are. It is an overpriced 'private university'. While the introductory computer science courses are adequate (Deitel & Deitel seems to be a favorite of their's), the staff is sub-par in both experience and ability to teach. I fondly remember one professor who was fresh out of the NAVY. She had been doing SQL reports while in the military, and was teaching a C++ course. At the beginning of the semester she talked about how we would all be working on an elevator program by the end of the semester. The problem is that most of the students were long gone by then, and she had completely failed to progress the remaining students to the point that they could even begin to write an elevator program. I'll give her one thing, though. She had a beautiful body, seemed students were more interested in watching her bend over to pick up the chalk on the floor, than actually listening to her. Seriously, most ever technical class I took was a power point presentation, beginning to end. There was little real instruction going on, and more than once professors would start a semester out by saying that we'd be doing this and that, and by the time the semester was coming to a close, the professor seemed desperate for it all to end. Faculty Accessibility: B, Innovation: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Aug 24 2008 1st Year Male -- Class 2000   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=53779&uid=3820'></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 Online learning is really a personal drive for education. The value of your education is really dependent on your ability to push yourself to learn the subject matter and excel. Those who complain about this environment normally do not have the self discipline to thrive in the online environement. Education Quality: A+, Individual Value: B Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  May 24 2008 2nd 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=47599&uid=3820'></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 Bright Based on the point in life I am at this university provided the technological format for me to continue my education and complete my BSBA in Management. Online education is not for the weak hearted and once you commit be prepared for a very fast paced unforgiving environment for scholastic pursuits. The reason you complete you degree program in such a short period of time is the commitment you make to both the education and yourself. With online programs you get out as much as you put in and noone is there to stand over you and make sure your task work and projects get done. While the books have not always provided the details necessary to complete the assignments you as the student are responsible for completing the assignments no matter where the source of your research must come from. Online education includes real world WWW research as well as text book content. If the assignements only needed one source of information such as text books what would you learn? Most of my instructors in this university have placed a high value on originality and the ability of the individual to comprehend the theories presented not just the ability to cite textbook information. Overall I have to say this has been the most fulfilling experience of my life and with a job that requires travel all over the world there is no other way I could have completed this educational pursuit. While the price is high the technology brought out through this university is phenominal and allows for what I consider to be one of the richest possible learning environments available through an online learning virtual campus. Education Quality: A+, Scholastic Success: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Nov 09 2005 1st Year Male -- Class 2006    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=19454&uid=3820'></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:    Next

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