Ashworth College

If I could give negative stars I would. Total farce. Communication with the professors is basically nil. Harsh grading and prof comments but no way to respond. Assignment instructions confusing and conflicting. No way to learn crap. This is for a Master’s program too. Seriously sad.

Just enrolled in the Substance Abuse counseling program today. Does anyone have any experience with this school? Will I be able to get a job at a treatment center once I’ve completed this course or will I need to complete other courses for certification? Any help please?

This is a great school with excellent programs and customer service! Better than anything I received at local community college.

I enrolled yesterday and so far, Yes, i’m a fan, i’m having fun exploring the site and getting oriented. I love the affordability making it easier to reach my goal of getting a degree and in the healthcare field which has always interested me.
My mother and her best friend were nurses and would tell me their work stories which made that interest grow.
I am looking forward to future assingments.

Worthless waste of time and money. $ 600 for a wedding planner course which sent me 4 spiral bound «Learning guides» that looked like they were printed on an office copier, lessons and test that were 90% common sense but the final «project» is what incensed me! The final «project» had NOTHING to do with the course I’d just wasted time and money on. I’d just completed a «course» teaching me how to start and run my own business. I’d have expected a project that would have utilized the learning I had received. Plan a wedding and reception based upon some criteria set out in the project.
The final «project» however, consisted of asking touchy-​feely questions as to why I took the course. It then asked me to fill out all sorts of personal information that I was not going to send off to some random person at the other end.
DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME AND HARD EARNED MONEY!

I’ve had a goal to complete my degree since I left college 30 years ago, but between full-​time career and the exorbitant price of most courses, I’ve only been able to take a course here and there over the years. Since discovering Ashworth last summer, I’ve already finished a semester and can actually foresee completing my degree and going for a Masters next. The ability to take the courses at your own speed (in my case, as quickly as I can!) and to be able to afford it without taking out loans is just perfect for me. I love Ashworth and through them, I continue to reach my goals!

Enrolled in the Healthcare Administrative Program for my Associate’s Degree! I am enjoying the college, no problems over here! And I love the low tuition, unlike other schools that wants $ 40k-​$ 50k for a Associate’s Degree!!! Like South University!

This college can be good. But I got screwed cause my accounts got hacked and I always just paid online. Defaulted 5 times and they added hundreds in late charges and screwed me over left and right. I don’t make hardly any money. They wouldn’t work with me. And right when I had school paid off they sent me another letter with saying I owe another 110 dollars in late charges. I was current most of the time. Cause if your not current they won’t let you study. I just felt so scammed.

I earned an AA degree from a traditional community college. I later enrolled at Ashford University where I earned a BA degree. Mind you, Ashford was a rather expensive, private university. I worked my rear end off there. Probably more so than I did anywhere else (educationally, speaking). I decided that I wanted to add to what I have already earned. I enrolled into Ashworth College’s undergrad certificate program in HR. While they seem to offer convenient payment plans, I plopped down the $ 1,000 or so to pay up front for the five-​course program. At Ashford, I probably would have paid somewhere around $ 5,500 for the same units. I learned that you get what you pay for. Ashworth is a work-​at-​your-​own-​pace school. You are not in a 6, 7, or 8 week long program with peers. You work at your own pace (good or bad, that’s up to the individual). I noticed that my most recent text book in employment law was written 13 years ago. It’s a great book, but it’s full of court decisions regarding employment situations. Not all of them are US Supreme Court cases, so I really don’t know if the case law mentioned in the books is still valid since the cases are so old (they may have since been resolved with different opinions by the Supreme Court than those held by lower courts). I also became very frustrated by the exams. They are open book and you have 24 hrs to complete it. Very easy. However, I was getting questions marked «wrong» when I found the verbatim answer in the book. You have to email a «tutor» to contest their error. One tutor conceded Ashworth’s error on a test. On another test, a different tutor basically did not give a cr@p and told me to suck it in a polite manner. On yet another test (all tests are 20 questions long), I missed two (again, I answered them according to the book, but Ashworth still marked them wrong), but the automated grading program marked me down 15% rather than 10%. I complained and it was fixed. The bottom line is, as I wrote, that you get what you pay for. This certificate will end up costing me 20% of what another college would charge. The give and take is that the staff at Ashworth isn’t very helpful, and it’s doubtful they actually care about your success. An «A» student can still expect to earn an «A-​» or «B+» grade if they consistently perform at an «A» level (due to Ashworth’s faulty tests). So if you look at it from the standpoint of how much it will cost you, I guess Ashworth’s unprofessionalism and faulty tests are a trade off. From that financial angle, I can deal with the big picture of it all. Thus far I do not necessarily regret enrolling there, but I have dropped a number of F-​bombs at the school out of frustration.

I have not yet completed my diploma in Network Security but this review is about the books/​material for this career diploma. Cyber Security is a fast changing field and the books I got are all referring to incidents that occurred in 2000 – 2004 period. That is ANCIENT in this field of study. A lot of the text while fairly easy to understand, it’s just copy of excerpts from other books. The most aggravating thing is they tell you to do some real world exercises (cyber attacks on a very small scale) on a stand alone PC (not on any network) at home. First of all, that was not mentioned anywhere when I signed up for this program. 2) Where am I supposed to get and set up an environment just to practice how virus/​worms spread? The best way is to practice or experience real world examples but heck, I can’t do that with this online career program. I do find the information/​this field fascinating and while the basic definitions/​attack methods may not have changed, there is a wealth of new information from the last few years totally missing in these books. I guess I have to go to the links mentioned in the books to learn about the latest methods. Oh, books meaning spiral bound books where information has been gathered from other text books. These are not real text books. As for help, I have heard they have a student help line but I haven’t called. I hate that I have no idea if there is a teacher for these classes and who that might be. I am basically teaching myself/​googling everything. When I finish this program, I will come back to give an update.

I am currently enrolled online at Ashworth in their floral design program. Some of the things I like about the program include the fact that you can pay for it on a payment plan which is really nice for those of us who can’t come up with the whole $ 800.00 in one shot. While on the topic of money I will also say that the tuition is far more reasonable then the one and only school I could find that was closer to me that offered floral design programs for about $ 1200.00.
The program itself has been really informative. I was quite surprised with how far back the history of floral arrangement goes. I also like the in depth explanation of the different styles of arrangement which is needed for a course like this where you are learning about something that under normal circumstances would be very hands on.
There are some things however about this experience that have been troubling. For one thing the quizzes are insanely easy. They allow you so much time for them as well that you really don’t have to go through the book initially and attempt to actually commit the information to memory. It is quite possible to literally take the book from the box it is shipped in and immediately go to your computer and do the quiz if you have the patience to sit there flipping pages and skimming.
Also the customer service at this institution is atrocious. As I have progressed I have been getting odd materials in my shipments like packages of floral food and fake greenery which lead me to believe there must be assignments somewhere that I am not seeing so I contact their customer service only to be told that no there is no assignments besides the online portion. There was no mention made of the one written assignment on career investigation that I had found in the second book they sent me leading me to believe the rep had no idea it was there and therefore could not be counted on as a reliable source of information.
I truly love and feel passionate about floral arrangement so I am naturally biased towards liking the course. The information like I mentioned above has been expansive and fascinating. I also appreciated the quality of some of the tools I have been sent like the floral shears, wire, and knife. The format the information has been presented in however I feel is ineffective and not really worth what you pay for the course despite the fact you can pay for it through a payment plan. They also need to consider better educating their staff so they can be there with all the information when students need them.

Do not give them your information online they will use it and send you to collections for courses you have never taken.

I am currently enrolled in the MBA program at Ashworth. To earn a Masters for less than $ 20,000 sounds like a pretty good deal to me. Of course it also means you may not get the treatment of a school that you would pay $ 100,000. For now I have been doing well with my courses. It’s cheap and convenient!

I have taken college courses with other colleges and with kids and work it is hard to fit things into your schedule. Ashworth makes it easy for those of us who do not want to get that student loan debit that everyone has low payments and great service is what I received. Yes you do have the issue of staff who are not happy with their job but you get that every place you go. I am almost done with my studies and have to say it has been a great experience.

I enrolled in ashworth college (CJ Program) with some skepticism, my doubts were laid to rest. I achieved an associates degree and it has propelled me to move up the ranks of my law enforcement agency. The school is nationally accredited and its recognized nationwide. I recommend this school to anyone who understands their criteria. If your looking for tutoring this is not the school for you, if you looking for a independent way to earn your degree with little teacher time than this school is for you. The school is very affordable. This school does receive complaints from students but in my opinion the complaints come from not understanding the way the school operates. This is a do it your self school, excellent for working adults.

For an online, Nationally Accredited school, it’s as cost efficient and as good as it gets. At your own pace, no deadlines, and fits in perfectly with a Full-​Time job and busy schedule. The payment plan is a plus as well — no major down payments on tuition costs. Definitely worth the time and money for this college — Nationally Accredited is also easier to transfer to an R. A institution than people think.

Okay, this school is great for distance learning. The books are great, the call center staff is pleasant, however; incompetent. If you have the time to sit on the phone on hold for 3 – 4 hours per day to deal with transcript issues, then Ashworth is a good choice. I will say that I was pushing through my program of study at a rate that most schools do not offer. So for a self paced college, Ashworth is great! I would go back to complete a BS if they offered one in my area, only because I loved the ease of the online courses, the rate I was able to progress and the study materials.

I chose to take a correspondence course through here for High School when I wanted to do homeschooling. I took Academic American History. The course is packed with a ton of information. The quizzes are hard in the sense that you really have to read page by page to find the EXACT answer their looking for. The book is about 1000 pages and yes, you will have to read it ALL to score an A or B.
In other words, common sense & prior knowledge won’t help you here.
I can say though, I could answer all the questions of the practice SAT Subject Test for US History on
I give one star for the course being very comprehensive. I really, really learned a lot about US History.
I give another star for the price. I had to pay $ 250 for this course which is MUCH MUCH MUCCCCCCCCH cheaper than a lot of online institutions. I’m talking about $ 250 vs $ 600-​$ 1000.
THE BAD:
Customer service is so incredibly bad.
— Don’t be surprised to have to wait 45 minutes to speak to someone who is RUDE. When I say rude, 80% of my calls involved someone with a tone of voice that showed they didn’t care or they were annoyed. I have been hung up on many times if I asked a question they could not answer, either directly, or I was transferred to an operator that would say goodbye and then terminate the phone call. I really have a high level of disgust for the people who answer the phones.
If you are on a time crunch, you really have to PRAY you get your handwritten assignments graded in a timely manner.
They say that they are usually graded within 7 – 10 days. I have had one graded in 5 days and the other took 6 weeks+.
— I called on the 8^th day and asked if they received my final exam because they were taking longer than normal, and they said they did.
About 2 weeks later they send me an email saying there was an error and that they «LOST» my exam and I needed to resubmit it.
As I go to resubmit it my course is gone from my «DROP BOX» and I have to speak with customer service to get it resolved. They told me it would take 24 – 48 hrs to be fixed. It had been well over a week and it was still not fixed. I called and called and they said it will be fixed the following day. –_​_​_​_​_​_​–
SUCH A HIGH LEVEL OF FRUSTRATION THAT ENSUED.
As I said earlier, quizzes & exams answers require finding the direct part in your book for the answer. That’s why it’s open book. Common sense and retained knowledge do not help you. This makes the course take an incredibly long time.
I would never recommend this place to someone and I would never take a course here again.
THIS PLACE IS ACCREDITED BUT NOT EVERYWHERE IN THE US. SPEAK WITH YOUR INSTITUTION BEFORE ENROLLING HERE IF THEY ACCEPT THIS SCHOOL. ESPECIALLY IF YOU LIVE OUTSIDE OF THE SOUTH. :| Sorry for caps.

I have graduated with an AA in Business Management, and currently working on a second degree, soon to be a third.
Great program for the working adult.
5 stars