Walden University review: Fraud 50

YOUR RIGHT THIS SCHOOL IS A NIGHT-MARE AND I'M ONLY IN THE FIRST QUARTER SO FAR
1. dropped twice explanation computer error and thats a good one how does a computer drop you erase all your grades, , class particpation, like you did'nt exist
2. Second drop to try to correct we contacted instructor to see if can come to a resilution i still had the possibility of being screwed when i did'nt do anything
3. Finacial Aid notified same day started paperwork sameday to tell the banks for loans and pell grant i'm dropped but here's a good one i was re-registered same day charged again for same class and its up to me to get my money back from them
4.i had to ask them where my pell grant was explanation it was in there office aka ""Bursar Office unopened but they made sure they got there money from my loans
5. loans re-payment excess to me 10 weeks into class before refund pell grant they have investigate come up with decision favorable to me wont get it until before next quarter if then
6.they refuse to give contact number for Bursar Office they don't talk to students they only reply to e-mails
7. final comment these people can't understand why i got up-set
8. give me another college and these people got a A- with BBB

thanx for your time alex grzybinski

Walden University scammed me. Had me believing that financial aid through fafsa would take care of cost just like it did with the college I was attending before switching to Walden. However after they got me registered and started then over half way through the quarter/semester they say that My account is on hold because of my outstanding balance. witch is over $1000 dollars. They said that I was supposed to accept their loans program things for the tuition's etc etc.. & so that I owe that now. I withdrew from them immediately and would not recommend that school to anyone unless you feel like getting screwed over.

I've attended Walden University since 2008 and so far my experience has been good. I received a master’s in psychology in 2010 and was offered a master’s level mental health job within 6 months of graduating. Now I’m working on my Master’s in Mental Health Counseling. Unfortunately, losers like you all make it harder for folks like us that DO make the school work by your slanderous and libelous comments posted online! The only complaint I have is with the racial tension that is often created by mostly black female students in the some of the mental health counseling courses. They have clearly sucked up the anti-white and anti-European American racist crap that was spewed in their multicultural counseling class. Lastly, I have previously earned a master’s degree at another school and have been a licensed professional since 1991. I suspect all Walden U complainers are out of their league in an online learning environment and thus should go to community college where it could take 6 years or more to get an undergraduate degree. Good Luck with that!

I have been attending Walden University since 2010 in the Clinical Psychology program and have not had one negative issue with this University. The course work is rigourous to say the least but very challengng and worth the effort. It sadens me to hear of these horror stories which give the University a very bad reputation, but not in my view. I highly recommend the programs to working individuals like myself who was given the opportunity to study online. Online course work is not easy.

It's funny that most of the negative complaints are people who needed their hand held to be able to learn. I will be finished with my B.S. in Political Science and Public Administration next summer. I have no complaints, except maybe one teacher that didn't participate as much as I would've liked him to. I really get a kick out of some of the spelling by the people on this board that didn't finish their degree. No wonder why you couldn't get through to administration, they couldn't understand you!

I completed all of the required courses for the Ed.D in a Teacher Leadership between 2007 to 2011. I started my dissertation, and four semesters of it, none of the mentors/professors approved my outline. In fact I had 4 mentors in those 4 semesters. One quit in the middle of it and I was stranded several weeks with no help. Each time that I was assigned to another mentor, s/he disapproved my outline. Frustrated, I just dropped out and refused to pay the $5000+ for that one semester when the mentor quit on me. The school held my transcripts for non-payment.

Hank

I wish I had done more research on this so-called school before I attended. So far, I have had a pretty good educational experience. The instructors are very nice and knowledgeable in their fields. I also receive helpful feedback on the papers I write. They could use a ton of improvement in their financial aid department though. The financial aid department is a total joke! I never seen a university operate so slow and incompetent when it comes students' money and loans. After disbursement, there's no reason to hold students' refund checks up to 14 days only because the law permits you to. That's not professional of a business or educational institution; however they identify themselves. It is better to beat a deadline rather than to "hit the deadline". I receive my refunds on the 14th day in most cases. The financial aid team always sounds like their hiding things when it comes to the truth about when a loan disburses and when you'll be awarded. I applied for and was approved for a plus loan a week before the term started, and I still have not received awarding of it let alone disbursement. They're feeding me a load of bull about how it takes up to 14 days to award a plus loan. Since when? That's unheard of. I am way past that deadline if that's the case. Then they tell me that it's 14 days from the promissory note, which also doesn't make any sense. So, now I have to wait that out even longer I guess. The rapture may happen first, who knows. The financial aid department sucks at answering any questions or concerns about anything. To make matters was, they could not even tell me why it takes up to 14 days. Especially because in my previous terms with them, I have received plus loan disbursement within the same week as awarding. I was awarded the day after approval of the loan. Once again, it always sounds like someone is lying!

Anonymous, I loved Walden and raved about it, learned a ton but once I reached the PhD dissertation portion, I was abandoned and they keep taking my money, not helping with my dissertation and not approving any of my work. I just got my research questions approved and guess what, I submitted the same questions the same way back in February but 2 teachers made me write them differently. Another committee member now has me writing them the way I did the first time! They continue to take my money and give me little help. Lower degrees might do well there. I loved that school until I was abandoned by them. They also lie about it being $48000 to get your PhD, it is really about $200, 000.

I just graduated with my MSN from Walden in May. I transferred in from a brick and mortar school. The cost was comparable to the brick and mortar (state) school that I attended. My only complaint is that it is difficult to find preceptors. However, there are many brick and mortar schools that no longer find preceptors either. As Walden's MSN program continues, more contracts will be signed between the school and health systems/offices which should make it easier to get preceptors. Also to be considered is that there has been an explosion of MSN/FNP students in general across all schools. So it is not entirely Walden that is the probem.

My only other complaints are just that they kept increasing tuition, although it stayed comparable to the b/m schools in my area. And they kept changing the requirements for clinical rotations (allowing MD's, then deciding that 1 of the 4 preceptors had to be an NP, allowing minute clinics, then saying no to minite clinics, and then changing their minds. I was a student there for 2 years. These changes could be considered "rapid fire" and annoying. The hardest part about this was the lack of communication that these changes were being made. There was no "grandfathering". It didn't matter if you were admitted to the school under one set of rules, if the rules changed, you changed with the rules. In the end, this did not affect me, so I personally had no complaints, but I know other students did

I know that there have been communication problems between Walden and the students but at the time that I left, they were working on that and had put together a student advisory council that was to meet on a regular basis to discuss problems. They also started a newsletter they sent out periodically. Included in the newsletter were introductions of staff, faculty, and administrators. They have some very prestigious people in administration. Most recently they opened a forum for students and I know that when we posted complaints on the forums, the admins of the forums were quick to try to find a way to help us resolve the issues. I personally did not experience any communication problems. My emails were almost always promptly answered within 1-2 days, from anyone in administration, support, writing center, and the library that I contacted. In fact, when I was unhappy with some of the information given by student support, I recall that a support manager or administrator contacted me to make sure everything was worked out.

If I had to choose one thing about Walden that needs changed it would be Academic Advising. Of all the agencies of the school that I contacted, the academic advising staff were completely clueless. I was very happy with my own academic advisor. He was accurate with his information and fast to respond to what I needed. I can't think of a single time that he wasn't on top of things. But there were so many others that I had talked to if I didn't want to wait to hear from mine, and with each question I got a miriad of answers from different advisers. Very frustrating.

Overall, the school is a good one, and it is affordable. I was very happy with my program. I learned a lot and truly enjoyed it. Just do your homework, and don't expect it to be perfect. Check out facebook for student support pages. Those pages were invaluable.

I don't know where to start so I am going to hope that I am clear in what is going on with hopes this can be rectified. I attended Walden University in [protected], I was not in attendance very long. During the course of being with the university, I was enrolled in a Doctoral program that was for Special Education. This special education program, as I was informed, was based on online learning and a thesis. Being that I was a new mother, this worked best for the needs of my family. Upon enrolling in the program, and after starting courses, I was informed that I would have to attend colloquiums for the program- something that was not informed of me during the time of enrollment by my enrollment counselor, Bev Foster. After discussions with the university and getting the university Ombudsman involved, I was informed that the colloquiums were 1.) required to take for the program and 2.) I was correct that Bev did not inform me appropriately of the demands of this program. I was informed that I could either stay in that program and do the required colloquiums OR transfer to another program that did not have those- myself, me enrollment advisor, and ombudsman did not know what program that would be. I was then put into contact with Miranda Olsen. After further decision and more back and forth with Miranda Olsen, I was informed that NONE of the classes would transfer over to the EDD program which did not have colloquiums in the program. therefore I would have to start from scratch for all of my courses. This was now December 22, 2011. I had already invested a good amount of money into the program and now I was unable to use any of the courses to transfer over to the other program. During this time of trying to figure things out, the system automatically enrolled me in another course (this was supposed to be suspended while this all worked out). In January 4th, 2012 the same day that I started to petitioning being enrolled in the program, I submitted a "Leave of Absence Request" so no further classes were added to my account and so I could figure out what I was going to do. I was also going through a divorce as well as some pretty significant health issues. On March 6, 2012, I emailed the university letting them know I would be changing my program and needed to have the hold removed. I was officially entered into the new program on March 13th, 2012. Mind you, at this point I had not enrolled in any classes in the new program. Issues continued to arise with Walden University and I was unable to get a clear understanding of the new program and continued to work with the Ombudsman. On March 16th, I was informed that 2 classes might be able to transfer over and that I needed to contest this and went through the motions of doing so. On April 3rd, an email from Jenna Gray regarding the new program and the courses that it entailed. Continued email communication back an fourth lead to Jenna Gray enrolling me in a course that started on April 30th, 2012-- still working with the Ombudsman of the University, I was getting no where with the University- I was not getting credit for the majority of courses I had taken and $$ I had spent without it being able to be used towards my degree. I was informed by the Ombudsman to participate some in the courses I was enrolled in while we worked things out as the University was unable to put me on another academic hold while things were figured out. Without getting any support and finalization with the issues I was having, I, in conversations with the Ombudsman, withdrew from Walden University on June 6th, 2012. When I withdrew it was clear understanding and knowledge that due to the issues I had been having with my degree as well as lack of support from the University the withdraw from the University would leave my account at a $0.00 balance and we would amicably go our separate ways. My account remained at a $0.00 balance until September of 2012 when I got notified my account was sent to collections for failure to pay $7, 440.00 in tuition fees! I contacted the Cedar Financial regarding this was emails, letters, proof that the account was at a $0.00 balance, they said they would look into it. I heard NOTHING. I called Walden and they said they no longer had my account on file and that I needed to speak with the collection agency. A YEAR later, I got another bill from the collection agency for $7, 440.00 noting I owe this to Walden. Again I called and EMAILED them all the documentation at which point it was clear that I did not, in fact owe the said amount. They never got back to me. Here we are, 2016, and now I have a collection account on my credit report for Walden University when I have evidence that I was not enrolled in the classes willingly nor did I act alone in withdrawing from the University-- clear communications with the Ombudsman about what was happening and the lack of rectification of this issue was presented.

RUN RUN RUN!

I simple called to ask about "why" I had a balance and a bully( not gentleman) employed at Walden name Roy Winkler yelled at me. I asked him why was his tone changing and he said I was trying to make him feel stupid! Well if asking questions about this OUTRAGES FAKE bill makes you feel stupid, then keep wearing your shoes on the wrong feet. I'm reaching out to the Department of Education now!

You are correct, Walden University cover up their mistakes, and explain-away student complaints like being delayed. Their systems are slow, cumbersome, prone to errors, like Blackboard errors, or MIA faculty, thus requiring replacement faculty, ad described above. Join me to complain to the Dept of Education and Dept of Justice.