Western Governors University

I chose negative due to the way the exams were proctored. Contstsnt network error and being dropped from live sessions and having to restart all over again over and over again leading to spending 8 hours for a test that should take 1.5. If you don't pass an exam, the extream lengths you must go to unordered to qualify for a re test will lead you to spending an entire semester trying abd trying over and over again to pass other tests, live, not love. With hours of additional content required. I spent 6 months trying to pass pathophysiology because I needed to pass multiple additional exams in order to take the final exam. One instruct even said the book that was used for the class was not written for nursing students, but for an MD level of understanding. I was in a nursing program. Thats not fair. And if you don't pass the class, you pay the school more money. So that's how they get you, you don't pass and it's a long con scam to keep you hanging on until you do. If I had know the technical issues were going to be this bad and the trap of jow the education process was ran, I wouldn't of gone here. I am highly dissatisfied with the whole process and felt it was just a scam in the end to get more money out of me. My program mentor was also not helpful either. She often seemed to confused me with another VA student and she would go in and change my courses and if have to ask her to change them back due to requirements of the VA. Their VA department was also awful. I was told multiple things from multiple people that were incorrect regarding my funding and how to get my funding applied. One person said I just needed to submit this or that form, then the next day I'd get an email from some one else who said no, that wasn't correct and I was often told I was going to be dropped from school due to VA non payment so I needed to sign up for fasfa. Which I don't qualify for. And then the VA would say something entirely different. So frusterating was my experience. I HATED going here. If I could of gone someplace else. I would have. Don't think because yoy can finish fast it's worth it. Pick a NORMAL program. The stress isn't worth it. This school is a pure scam.

1st Year Female -- Class 1925

Faculty Accessibility: B, Education Quality: F

A graduate program, might be okay at this school if you have the time, energy, and patience to grind it out on your own.

As an undergraduate, attending this school was the worst possible choice I could have made.
The "mentors" do little aside from hound you via email, and they don't do anything helpful unless it is over the phone, and even then its not always insightful, more like a waste of time. Be prepared to do everything, and suffer through the most annoying parts of the process on your own. If you are someone who prefers instant feedback, and not having to wait for someone to get back to you (if at all) in a timely (let alone helpful manner) youre going to wish that you had chosen something IN PERSON. Looking back, I couldn't justify spending the 30 grand or so that I've spent to finish this.

5th Year Female -- Class 1920

Perceived Campus Safety: A+, Education Quality: F

The financial aid department is not helpful and hard to reach. In their collection emails they don't even give you a phone number to contact them, just an email address to write to and then don't respond with it. What a grand waste of 3 years of college.

3rd Year Male -- Class 2016

Collaboration/Competitive: B, Scholastic Success: F