Colorado Technical University — Attraction in Colorado Springs

Updated review 5/2024: The worse nursing graduate coordinator who tries to mess up your completion of the practicum at every turn. She dropped the balls so many times and they are being escalated to the dean of the MSN school but she continues to drop the ball, not holding herself accountable for the work that has to be done. This coordinator likes to pass the buck to you, answer your emails late and using robot to answer your emails so you will not get your answers at all from her, very unprofessional. Even if you submitted all the requirements early, she will not communicate to you to update you and will purposefully cause you to get delayed to get back at you. I have to email her several times early on before the deadline and also submitted all the requirements few months before the start of the class and she still manage to get me delayed for this clinical. She does not make effort to help to get clearance for the class. I also have to do her job for her, in order for my clinical to get approved. In the end she took a vacation on the same days that the class is starting even if I was not cleared yet to start clinical , so that she really washed her hands off of her job and had other people take care of her job for her, So that the dean and me, the student, are all struggling to get the clearance for the clinical site on the day of the class starting. She did this twice to me now for these two clinical courses and she still has her job and probably doesn't get any repercussions for her unprofessional and irresponsible behavior. You will surely get a big headache, empty wallet and very poor service from this program . The teachers, the student success coordinator and the dean are great but this person is pulling their performance down and the school as well. Beware signing up for this school. School is stressful enough and if they keep trying to mess up their side of the bargain too, and not do their job well, this is all going to be big headache and a big waste of your time. Your spending this big money to pay them and you have to do their job for them too.

3 months ago : Very bad support from nursing graduate coordinator who seemed to want to pass the buck to students in finding preceptor and washing her hands off of the actual tasks. Very rigid coordinator , wants eveything done for her on a silver platter otherwise she reacts by delaying your classes. Wants you to do more work unnecessarily to make her life easier and the students life much harder. This is despite the fact that students are working professionals too which the graduate coordinator is aware for.

The only bad experience is graduate coordinator not wanting to do her job right . You will have white hair just dealing with this coordinator and also trying to find a preceptor because although the handbook said it’s ultimately the responsibility of the school to find preceptor, good luck getting this through this coordinator who think the opposite that it is the sole responsibility of student to find preceptor even if preceptors or agencies not entertaining emails from students and all wants communication directly from school which she refused to do for the students unless you compete the table or other unnecessary tasks she wants you to compete and if you have no time because you’re working student, she delays your classes as she has the upper hand and uses it unprofessionally . She makes you feel that you work for her and must do extra effort to make her job easier or else you’ll be punish by delays. Beware of this school. You might want to go elsewhere where the coordinator are helpful and knows how to do their job conscientiously. You don’t need this headache while working and studying at the same time. I do appreciate all the other part of CTU. Wish they have a better coordinator with strong work ethics who care for the students as a person. Coordinator point fingers without looking at herself and the kind of service she is providing at such a intense...

I have received both my associates and bachelors (business) from CTU. I am currently earning my masters (all in business). There are both pros and cons about this school. The program is amazing! It is real-life scenario based and can be easily applied to the real world. However, on the downside - the financial aid department is HORRIBLE. They are poorly trained and they are great at assuming (you know what they say when you assume). After my associates degree, I found they cannot be trusted. They ALWAYS refund to much and then put your account on hold (literally the next day after they send you the stipend). My suggestion is if you receive a refund - DO NOT spend it. While it can be tempting (unless you are a millionaire), make sure you they do not populate a balance before paying bills or going on a shopping spree. If you do (have a balance) - pay it or if you spend some of it (the stipend) make payment arrangements immedately. There is no use in calling them when it happens - they are CLUELESS. With all the money we pay them, I would think they would put more money into training one of the most important departments (could just be me). Why did I stay? Once I figured out the financial aid portion, the program is great! If you attend now and your problem is the financial aid - learn the system yourself and manage your own funds (we can't expect them to do their job...right??). Additionally, I feel more comfortable handling/monitoring my own financial aid anyway - do not leave thousands of dollars in the hands of untrained employees. If you do not want a refund (stipend) them calculate it yourself - DO NOT let them do it. If you are planning on attending CTU - if you are responsible and good at time management (or willing to learn), you will do just fine. Attendance to the live chats are not mandatory, make sure you submit at least one assignment a week (to avoid them calling you and emailing every five minutes), submit assignments early if you can. They have a early access period - this is a great time to get an idea of what your assignment will be (you can't actually submit), use this time to knock some of those assignments out early (do them and save them in a folder on your desktop), this way by week 4 you are done and have a week to kick your feet up (before the next session starts). TAKE THE FAST TRACKS - however, keep in mind, they are NOT transferable and DO NOT go towards your GPA (in other words don't stress about getting an A, just pass the thing) - if you plan on staying then go for it (they save hella time) example: I have only been at the school since 2014 and will be done with my Masters in 2018 - but I also did a lot of overloading. If you are considering changing schools or just want to "try it out" - DO NOT take the fast tracks they mean nothing to other schools. They need some upgrading (technology wise) but they are working on it. Every session they are adding something new. Another downfall is they only have one graduation per year which is ridiculous. They should have one in winter and one in summer. They do not have a large turnout for their graduations (in other words most people just graduate virtually) because if they have to wait for over a year to walk - its pointless. Sorry that this is one long run on sentence, but I hope it is helpful for someone. They have a virtual library - yeaaaaa just use Google. Career services - meh (they are helpful with formatting resume's not much more) Alumni - not many perks, a small discount here and there but that's it. Reminders: Financial Aid SUCKS - manage your own funding (you would not give 50,000 dollars to a 5 years old and tell them not to mess up your money, would you? Same concept here). DO NOT spend your stipend (side note: if you get anything larger than 1500 there is a problem) Do assignments early Keep pushing - hang in there no matter where you go to school

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I didn't go here because of the negative experience from the start. I requested information about the school and received a call the next day from Rueben Perez, an admissions advisor for the school. At first he was nice but he was very pushy which leads me to believe that they receive commission for student enrollment. What further substantiates my beliefs is the fact that I was put in a class before receiving financial aid or having my transfer credits evaluated. When I questioned this Mr. Perez became irate to the point where I had to disconnect the call. Next thing I know, I received an email staing that I had been withdrawn as a student which I never requested. Then today, I got an email saying that my credits had been evaluated and that I could transer 91 credits to their Bachelor's program which is fine except I already have a bachelor's degree and was supposed to be in the Master's program! Unorganized, unprofessional and definitely not somewhere I want to be a student of.

Update: the reply from CTU is a lie and a ploy to discredit my review but I have receipts and will gladly post the emails! Also, there is no way possible a shouting match between your advisor and I didn’t get recorded and I seriously doubt any real effort was exerted to truly find the truth as it’s much easier to deny and lie! I did eventually take some classes after being contacted by another advisor who was much nicer! Jinny Khosho is very polite and it’s just unfortunate that she chose this institution to work for. It started off good until I realized that several of the couses that I was scheduled to take were a part of a set of classes that were kind of like electives in that I need a certain number of them and that I was to choose which ones I wanted to take, however, I was never given the choice and when I questioned this I was told that I should have been told my options but that in order to make the changes, I would have to wait until June! I still don’t understand why I have to wait until then to make changes to classes I’m not scheduled to take until I’m almost done. Any other school allows future changed to be made immediately. The last straw for me is the fact that I specifically asked if CTU classes required group work as that is a deal breaker for me and I was told by Mr. Perez himself that I would not have any group work. Well guess what yall!? This class I’m in right now has a group assignment. Between the deceit and blatant lies clearly exhibited in the comment below I can honestly say that CTU is not a good investment and I will be transferring to another school after this class. I would be embarrassed to know that my organization was operating this way, but we obviously now live in a world where ethical behavior is quickly...