Washington State University

Date: Oct 16 2019
Major: Computer Science (This Major's Salary over time)
I attend WSU Global Campus and am a senior majoring in Data Analytics. I already have a previous bachelors degree from another university. This program is absolutely terrible. There is very high faculty turnover. Most classes are taught by people with only masters degrees from outside the field. I currently have an upper division computer science class being taught by a grad student from the electrical engineering department who doesn not answer e-mails or respond to student questions on the discussion boards. The professor who taught this course last year quit after 1 year, and also did not have a computer science degree. The chair of the department is full of herself and also does not respond to e-mails. She taught one of my courses and abandoned the class halfway through the term. As in, stopped posting assignments, interacting via e-mail or discussion board, and was completely unreachable for the last 7 weeks of the term until she showed up to give a final exam with multiple choice questions she copied off other university exams she found for free online. I have never had a course that was taught by the person who created the material. Courses take old powerpoints (in some cases over ten years old) and post them as stand alone resources for students to teach themselves. I pay $1500 a class for this. Rarely is there meaningful interaction with faculty. Large courses have section instructors that are often unqualified with bad attitudes and work ethics. Professors generally do not respond to questions or answer e-mails. You are on your own in this program. And some of these classes are really, really hard. I was not expecting 100 and 200 level computer science classes to take 40 hours a week per class. Noone at this university cares about you or your concerns, needs, or career goals. I have no idea why I pay as much as an on campus student and have zero of the same resources. You are no more than a dollar sign to the administration. Steer clear of this program, it's awful.