Walden University

At first, I was excited and thought this school was great, but a year into the program I suddenly realized, I was SCREWED. A friend had emailed me showing me the amount of people that were having a horrible time with this school and how their degrees were just a piece of paper that were worthless. Employers won’t hire a Walden grad because it is a garbage school. For one, it is not regionally accredited and that’s bad. The amount of homework some teacher give is unreal. Do they not think we have jobs and families?
My last instructor with the Data Analysis class had assigned ridiculous amounts of homework. It was so bad I spent 6 six weeks overly stressed and nearly crying during the assignments because they were too much for a full time employee, mom, student, and so much more to handle. The teacher required also for us to download a program onto our computers which ended up crashing my computer, I emailed her and told her it took me 4 hours to fix the problem then another 2 hours to do the homework and I still ended up getting it done before the deadline but I had missed 1 question answer and she gave me a zero for the assignment and all the following assignments that would take 2 – 3 hours alone to complete, she would give me horrible grades on although I had done everything. The assignments made no since at all and the download didn’t work properly to complete assignments. I didn’t even bother complaining and I dropped out the day I finished that class. I joined a regionally accredited online program in my home state so maybe I will be able to actually get a job in my field and a decent education rather just a very expensive and worthless piece of paper saying I have a degree for which no employer will take a glance at…

This «school» is the poster child for a predatory, unethical online school. To begin with, the instructors will vary of course as is typical with any academic institution. Some are very engaged and proactive whereas with others, you are lucky if they post two or three times in the course over the entire term. Where this school truly fails is in reference to the dissertation «courses». As part of your dissertation if you are pursuing a doctoral degree, you will be placed in a series of never-​ending dissertation «classes» in which you are required to work towards your dissertation.
Note, these «classes» are supposed to be monitored by an instructor however this is not the case. They market the program in such a manner as to tell students that you will work productively with a dissertation committee in an expeditious fashion towards your research. I am currently in my tenth «class» with no end in sight. The instructor is simply non-​existent. Students continually post in the questions for instructor forum and in the discussion forums to no avail. The class as a whole has repeatedly complained regarding the lack of any guidance whatsoever but without any resolution.
Walden will also charge you $ 3,000.00 per each of these «classes». Because of the lack of available instructors to serve on dissertation committees, you are forced to work with whoever is left over. The lack of communication is absolutely appalling. I once waited 9 weeks… yes WEEKS for a reply to an email. Feedback of any kind on your dissertation drafts will take MONTHS thus the justification to keep you locked into these classes indefinitely. It is repulsive how this school can continue to get away with this completely unethical (and let’s face it illegal) business practice. Once you are done with your required coursework and begin the dissertation process, you are essentially stuck. You can either withdraw with no degree to show plus a mountain of debt or continue to process with the false hope of one day finishing… plus an even bigger mountain of debt.
Enrolling in this school was unquestionably, unequivocally, the worst decision that I ever made. This school absolutely needs to be investigated for false business practices.

Worst Masters program ever. I was two weeks from completing my Masters when my Thesis Advisor resigned due to conflict with the School. My second was made my primary and she declined to contact me or assist me in presenting my thesis so I could graduate. That was all that was needed. After the semester ended, she emailed me asking what my thesis was about– after she’d been allegedly reviewing and working with us on my thesis for two semesters. She emailed me that I would need to start my thesis over and that I would need to pay them and attend another 6 – 9 months at least to get my Masters. I could not access the conflict resolution form and when it was finally sent to me, it was clearly and emphatically stated that it would be disregarded as I consented to letting her be my primary (she had promised my advisor to tie things up as I was done) and because I hadn’t gotten it submitted within 72 hours of the conflict. Because I have a perpetually incomplete degree I cannot get higher paying jobs that would make it possible to pay my student loans off. They have doubled and I’m buried. I went there to better my career and life and they destroyed it. No support. No assistance and I wish there was someone to turn to as this was one hell of a con job.

Very Unpleaseant Experience
Save yourself some time
Don’t apply!
Courses University require you to take increase on a regular basis
They don’t tell you upfront.
After an exhausting process of gathering up transcripts, filling out forms, and resumes, you find out there is more info required.
I have 3 degrees. Never being treated like this before.
All a tactic to get you to take more of their classes. That’s this particular
University Non Profit
Thanks
Feeing Sad I ever tried

This university is garbage. Its a poor university with poor instructors who don’t care about their students.
The university only cares about making money off of their students period. Avoid at all cost!

I had a pretty bad experience at Walden doing the online program. The only positives were the price, the speed of the program, the online journals were fantastic, and the flexibility of the program. Communication was very slow when I had questions for my professors or Walden, seemed like I was teaching myself, and the discussion forums were not held accountable. People would almost post anything and the professor would accept it. I eventually started to wonder if everyone was just given an A no matter what you did.
If you want an easy A go for this place, if you want to learn avoid.

I finally finished my last class on ¹⁰⁄₃₁. I was nervous as my ePortfolio was being assessed. It took one week for me to be notified that I have earned my Masters. The process was easy and straight forward. I would definitely recommend this school.

A leader in the online school community. Very flexible, affordable, good level of education (you make it as good as you want like any other education), and great access to libraries. I highly recommend Walden to anyone who wants to work school around their life as opposed to the other way around.