Colorado State University-Global Campus — Attraction in Denver

These people do not really care about you!!!! I have straight A's in all my classes here so my experience has nothing to do with my not trying hard enough. When I first enrolled my adviser gave me tons of wrong information, and an "oops" was about all I got by way of apology from anyone. My instructors (ALL but 2, 2 were pretty great) constantly gave me feedback meant for other students, or gave me replies that were obviously copied and pasted as they were not even close to relevant to what I was asking. One instructor ignored my request to know why I got an answer wrong for several weeks, when I finally got a hold of him he basically told me I was bothering him while he was on vacation!! Why be an instructor if you do not have time for your students??? In this particular case, I was sure I had gotten a problem right but he graded it as wrong and refused to answer me as to why. He kept telling me "I don't know why you're upset, no one ever gets this right". Finally after trying all those weeks to reach him he told me that I was wrong because I was supposed to calculate based off of total revenue. I told him the problem clearly stated to calculate based on total cc sales. His response? Oh well its written wrong. AND HE NEVER BOTHERED TO THINK THERE MIGHT BE A REASON WHY NO ONE EVER GOT IT RIGHT?????

Now, I am going on maternity leave and will have zero income for several months and have a balance due, even though I constantly checked in with my advisers to make sure the loans I was accepting would cover the classes I was enrolled in. A full week before the fall term ended I got both an email saying fall loan amounts were waiting to be accepted as well as a notification that I had a balance due. I asked my adviser what I should do and immediately got an email saying she was leaving her position, and another adviser would be in touch. 3 DAYS LATER I get an email from someone saying I just need to fill out a loan acceptance form, so I did, but apparently now it is too late. They said so sorry but there is nothing they can do unless I want to take courses during my maternity leave, WHICH IS MEANT FOR BONDING WITH MY BABY NOT TAKING COURSES!!!

I do not recommend CSU Global to anyone, their instructors really "phone it in" and the advisers are not very helpful. If you do decide to go here expect to be frustrated and make sure you ask the same question to multiple people as my first year here I got several conflicting answers and may never have realized I was not being given accurate info if I had not done that. Oh, and be aware that if you take a break for any reason you will begin to accrue interest on student loans and have to pay them back. That was the FIRST thing I asked my adviser DAY 1 when I first enrolled and he assured me that as long as I did not take off more than a year I would still be considered a student, remain in the program, and loans would not require payment or accrue interest. This is not true. I wish I had never enrolled here, I chose this school over Regis because the credit hours were cheaper but seeing as that adviser still checks in on me (she seriously calls me just to see how I am doing and I dont even go to her school - CSU Global has NEVER done that) I probably would have been given good information...

I enrolled in CSU Global's new Web Application Development certificate program during early 2020, hoping to gain some new skills after being furloughed due to COVID19 so that I could pursue a job in the web design/development industry. I am now four classes into the program, and am finding myself disappointed, frustrated, and like this school has taken advantage of me financially.

This has got to be one of the most poorly planned programs I have ever encountered. The classes cover only the barest basics of their respective focuses, and certainly don't give you enough information to even think about applying for a job in any computer science field. In addition, the order of the classes makes no sense whatsoever. The curriculums do not build on previous info or skills learned - so get ready to forget everything you picked up in the class before as the next one veers off in some seemingly random direction that basically ignores each class that came before it. I understand that there are many different topics to cover in this field, but I firmly believe the course content planners could have found ways to integrate each skill learned into the following classes so they build on each other and keep the skills fresh in students' minds.

There is little-to-no instructor interaction, and when the professors do give responses to things they feel extremely generic and pre-planned, almost as though a bot program is giving you feedback rather than a human. The "lectures" are laughably useless (they are not even spoken lectures but handfuls of poorly written paragraphs that essentially paraphrase straight from the textbook), leaving you feeling as though the only useful tool aside from some of your peers (if you're lucky) is the textbook. Does paying $1000+ dollars for a textbook seem cool? Not so much... and that's basically what these classes feel like. They have almost zero original content and instead link to other websites and other institutions videos to provide you with your "education".

In summary, I probably could have just hopped on w3schools.com or simply Googled whatever keyword describes each course's content and received a learning experience that was just as good if not better than in each of these courses. I cannot speak for the other programs CSUG offers, but I strongly recommend caution when thinking about applying for this school. This feels like a money-grab more than anything else, and if I could do this over again I would rather have paid more money for higher quality classes somewhere else. I will probably be dropping out of this program because I would rather save the money for the last two courses and cut my losses than continue to spend money and get nothing but disappointment in return. An unfortunate...

Current student of one year working towards Bachelor's Degree in Business Management while working full time. I travel extensively for work and consequently the option of attending a brick-and-mortar university was not feasible. Thankfully technology is ever improving the online education option for those seeking to achieve their degree but cannot attend a brick-and-mortar university. After doing research on online university options, I determined that CSU-Global Campus was the most ideal for my situation for a variety of factors. They had competitive tuition rates, but additionally their courses were clearly structured and did not require "group" projects/assignments. I did not want to have to be dependent on anyone but myself in regards to successfully completing my assignments, and there are other online universities where this is a standard structure for their courses. Another factor that played into my decision was the attentiveness of CSU-Global when I expressed interest. The enrollment adviser was extremely helpful and made the process of enrolling extremely easy. I transferred 70+ credits from another university and the process was seamless. Once enrolled CSU-GC assigns you a student adviser who is with you every step of the way, ready and willing to help with any questions. The online portal is great with little ramp-up necessary. I have enjoyed all my instructors and have found each of them to be very professional, helpful, insightful, and personable. All my professors possessed real-life experience in regards to the course topic, and were clearly knowledgeable on the subject matter. Every professor truly values education and promotes this through their continued efforts to be present for students. You will quickly realize that CSU-GC has a standard course structure of 8 weeks per term, with the week assignments broken out as Discussion question (due every Thursday), Critical Thinking assignment (often 2-3 or 3-4 page paper due nearly every Sunday, sometimes there may not be a CT assignment for the week), and Mastery quiz (due every Sunday). Week 8 for nearly every course has a Portfolio Project due at the end of the term which is often an 8-10 or 10-12 page paper regarding the overall course subject matter. All is very achievable but you will need to ensure you are dedicating time to fulfilling assignments. If you are engaged and complete the work by the applicable deadlines and apply yourself you will be successful at CSU-GC. Hope this helps those, like me, who wanted to complete their degree and were seeking a great online option that would work for your schedule. Good luck!...